Preface

Acknowledgments

Prologue

1. THE AUTHOR INTRODUCES HIMSELF

Thoughts on Memory
The I and the Me
Geographical
More Personal than Modest
A Frustrating but Constructive Philosophical Dream

2. A SHELTERED CHILDHOOD (1897-1911)

Earliest Recollections
A Noble Friend
Marguerite Haughton Hartshorne
Francis Cope Hartshorne
My Four Brothers
Male Chauvinism?
Public School

3. A BOARDING SCHOOL IN THE COUNTRY (1911-1915)

Dr. Gardiner
Some Other Boarding School Teachers
School Life
Appendicitis and Poetry

4. SOME PLAYMATES AND RELATIVES

Small Town Society
Sister Frances, Cousin Emily, Some Aunts
Aunt Amy and Lillie Zietz
Professor J. Duncan Spaeth

5. HAVERFORD COLLEGE (1915-1917)

Choosing a College in 1915
Some Classmates: Frank Morley and Evan Phillips
Some Upper Classmen
Some Haverford Teachers

6. LIFE IN AN ARMY MEDICAL CORPS (1917-1919)

Volunteer - or Be Conscripted?
A Base Hospital and Its Nurses and Patients
Some Professional Soldiers
Commanding Officers and Psychosomatic Eye Trouble
My Life is Saved; Fellow Orderlies, Alcoholism
Religious - Philosophical Experiences
The Thrill of Youth

7. HARVARD, EUROPE, HARVARD (1919-1928)

Some Fellow Students (1919-1923)
Some Professors
Two Roommates
Some Landladies
Volunteer Work in a Camp for Boys
A Traveling Fellowship (1923-1925)
Some Letters and F. C. Hartshorne's Last Public Address

8. SOME YOUTHFUL EXPERIENCES WITH WOMEN

An Old-Fashioned Way of Learning About Love
Social Relations of a Wandering Student
What Makes Life Together Endurable?
Homo- and Heterosexuality

9. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (1928-1955)

"She Was a Phantom of Delight"
Hutchins, Adler, McKeon
The X Club
Carnap
Students
Theologians and Metaphysicians
Lecturing in German (1948-1949)
Why Leave a Great University?

10. SOME FRIENDS IN CHICAGO, AND ELSEWHERE

My Admirable Relatives-in-Law
Kurt Riezler
A Neighborhood Institution
"Bird Friends Are Good Friends"
Three Russian Aristocrats
Some Excellent Household Helpers
"E. L." - A Southern Gentleman of a New School

11. THE MOVE TO THE SOUTH (1955-1962)

The Era of Civil Rights Begins
Emory: A Small but Good University
Lecturing in Seattle and Kyoto

12. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS (1962- )

John Silber
A Great Naturalist
Texas Philosophers

13. RECOLLECTIONS OF FAMOUS PHILOSOPHERS - AND OTHER IMPORTANT PERSONS

14. SOME OTHER PHILOSOPHERS

Heinrich Rickert
Kallen, Feigl, Langford
Bag Fuller and E. S. Brightman
Norman Malcolm
Morris Cohen
Max Otto
Eustace Hayden

15. ODDS AND ENDS

Violence and Some Nonacademic Jobs
The Deaths of Dear Ones
Mentally Disturbed Students
Opportunity, Genius, and Ambition
What's Wrong with Everybody?
What Is There to Regret?
"Life is Unfair"
Wordsworth's Vision

Epilogue

Name Index

Topic Index