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WHITEHEAD'S 75TH BIRTHDAY MARKED BY UNIQUE TRIBUTE

Graduate of Cambridge, He Taught Mathematics There; Moved Later to University of London

NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED

Arthur North Whitehead, professor of Philosophy, is 75 tomorrow; and nine of his former pupils will present him with a book of essays in his honor, a volume which "indicates some, at least, of the many directions in which his thought is being felt".

Author of Volume

The book, entitled "Philosophical Essays of Alfred North Whitehead", is written by F. S. C. Northrop, of Yale, Raphael Demos, assistant professor of Philosophy, Scott Buchanan, of Virginia, Willard V. Quine, Junior Fellow, Henry S. Leonard, instructor in Philosophy, Paul Weiss, of Bryn Mawr, S. Kirby-Miller, of Reed College, Charles Hartshorne, of Chicago, and Otis H. Lee, of Pomona College.

Here Since 1924

Professor Whitehead has been at Harvard since 1924, when he transferred from the University of London; before that he was an undergraduate and lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge. He has been teaching Philosophy 3, on the function of reason, and Philosophy 3b, on cosmologies ancient and modern. Among his works are "Principia Mathematica", "Science and the Modern World", and "Process and Reality."

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