Bugbee Granted First Santayana Fellowship

Henry Greenwood Bugbee, Jr. has been awarded the first George Santayana Fellowship in Philosophy for 1953-54, Dean McGeorge Bundy announced yesterday.

Established by the terms of Santayana's will, the fund provides for the annual appointment of "a person of any age or nationality who may be thereby enabled freely to devote himself, in any place of his choice approved by the Harvard Corporation, to the subjects which have occupied my own life." In addition, the Fellows must be doing graduate or postdoctoral study under the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Born in New York City, Bugbee and his family live in Cambridge. He received his A.B. from Princeton in 1936 and A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California in 1940 and 1947 respectively. Assistant Professor of Philosophy from 1948-53 at Harvard, Bugbee is interested in the metaphysics of responsibility.

Santayana, poet and philosopher, was a Harvard graduate, Class of '86.