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or casual remarks - he had goten a great many scholarships and fellowships. He studied in Europe. He studied at the Sorbonne. Among other fellowships that he had won, and this is always very interesting, was a fellowship to the Spanish University of Santander in the Basque country. Very few men in this country have had any such education, taking in the Spanish 12th and 13th Century background of philosphy. There he was exposed to the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, who was, of course, one of the greatest of the writers in organized philosophy. It was a university permeated with theological conceptions, which didn't seem ever to have bothered Henry at all. He was studying philosophy, history and related subjects. He came under the great masters of philosophy.

He always laid his philosophical poise and his adaptability in philosophy to the education that he got at Santander and rated it way above anything that he got from the University of Paris, or from Oxford, or Cambridge - one of which he had a brief period at. I'm not sure that he didn't take his doctorate from that Spanish university, but I'm not positive about that. In his thinking about his education that was the important spot of his education.

He came back to this country and went down to the University Settlement. Why he did that, I don't know. I





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