Rhymes About College Signed Poems by Union and 26 similar items

Rhymes About College, by Professor Harold A. Larrabee. Personally signed and inscribed to fellow academic Harry Willison Rowe of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Measures 5 x 7.25, 31 pages. Condition: This is an original booklet, not a copy or reproduction. It is complete but has some edge and corner tears and some splitting along staple-bound binding which leaves the cover intact but nearly separated. Comments: Harold A. Larrabee, was a professor emeritus of philosophy at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. Dr. Larrabee was born in Melrose, Mass. He graduated from Harvard University in 1916, got a master's degree from Columbia in 1918 and earned a Ph.D from Harvard in 1925. He volunteered for service in World War I as a psychological examiner for the Army. He taught at Syracuse University and the University of Vermont before joining Union College. He held the Ichabod Spencer Chair in philosophy until his retirement in 1960. As preparation for a course he taught, entitled Methods and Problems, he prepared a text, Reliable Knowledge, which came to be widely used. He also revised and edited Jeremy Bentham's Handbook of Political Fallacies, and translated two works of the French scientist Charles Mayer. Dr. Larrabee was the author of Decision at the Chesapeake, an account of the decisive naval battle of the American Revolution. He was an editor of The Humanist and of The New England Quarterly and a frequent contributor to professional journals. He died in February, 1979 at the age of 84 in Austin, Texas.