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Boas (George) 1891-1890
Papers (1920-1980)
Ms. 10

Size:                    10.4 linear ft.
                         (25 document boxes)

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Provenance:              The collection was a gift to the
                         University from Mrs. George Boas in 1980.

Access:                  Access is unrestricted.

Permission               Permission to publish material from this
                         collection must be requested in writing
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Citation:                George Boas Papers Ms. 10
                         Special Collections,
                         Milton S. Eisenhower Library,
                         The Johns Hopkins University

                     Boas (George) 1891-1980
                       Papers (1920-1980)
                             Ms. 10

Provenance

The collection was given to the University in May 1980 by Mrs.
George Boas.

Biographical Sketch

George Boas was born in Providence, Rhode Island on August 28,
1891. He took his B.A. and then his M.A. at Brown University in
1913. The following year he studied at Harvard under Josiah Royce.
After a year at Columbia he went to the University of California at
Berkely and there he earned his Ph.D in 1917. A period as
Instructor in Forensics, begun in 1915, was interrupted by his
enlistment in the Army and combat service in France. In 1921 he was
brought by Arthur O. Lovejoy to the Johns Hopkins University
faculty as Historian of Philosophy. Boas and Lovejoy worked closely
together and made Johns Hopkins University a center for the study
of the history of ideas.

In the Second World War Boas took leave of absence and served as
Lieutenant Commander and later Commander in the Naval Reserve.
After the German surrender he was stationed at General Eisenhower's
Supreme Allied Headquarters, where he was ranking naval officer. He
was subsequently transferred to Brussels at the request of the
United States Ambassador, and in Belgium he succeeded in tracing
and identifying many major works of art which the Germans had
confiscated.

In 1956 Boas retired from Johns Hopkins University but continued to
be active as both a teacher and scholar. He was a Fellow at the
Center for Humanities at Wesleyan University, and as a visitor held
the Andrew W. Mellon Chair at the University of Pittsburgh. He was
a member of the American Philosophical Society, the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Academie Royale de Belgique.
He received a number of honorary degrees. He organized the first
exhibition in Baltimore devoted entirely to modern art and in 1938
was one of a 3-man committee that ran the Baltimore Museum of Art
in the absence of a director; he was long one of the most
influential members of its Board of Trustees.

Boas' learning was vast and his writing prolific. It has been said
that no American philosopher of the 20th century wrote on as many
subjects as he did. His primary fields of specialization were the
history of philosophy, general intellectual history, aesthetics,
and art criticism.

He married the sculptress Simone Brangier in 1921. They had two
daughters. George Boas died on March 17, 1980.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The collection spans the years from 1920 to 1980, and consists of
correspondence, notebooks, articles, speeches, short stories, and
reprints. Of interest are the letters of Lucian Levy Bruhl, French
philosopher and sociologist (1857-1939), written between 1926 and
1935; also the letters of Leo Stein to Boas written between 1925
and 1934. There is one letter from John Dewey dated February 7,
1927. The collection totals approximately 150 letters; ca. 500
articles, speeches, short stories, notebooks; and ca. 100 reprints.

SERIES DESCRIPTION

     1. Correspondence: Lucien Levy-Bruhl to George Boas, John
Dewey to George Boas, Leo Stein to George Boas; also "Western Round
Table on Modern Art," April 1949, transcripts of proceedings.

     All other correspondence is filed in Boxes 1-18 under the
pertinent subject. For filing, see name of correspondent in card
catalogue, and Container List for subject.

     2.  Articles, Lectures, Writings of George Boas, flied
alphabetically by title, Boxes 1-18  (see CONTAINER LIST).

     3.  Notebooks of George Boas, alphabetically by title, Boxes
19 and 20 (see CONTAINER LIST).

     4.  Reprints of various authors, alphabetically by author, Box
23 (see CONTAINER LIST).

     5.  Reprints of varius authors, alphabetically by author, Box
23 (see CONTAINER LIST).

     6.  Miscellaneous catalogues and periodicals, Box 24.

                         CONTAINER LIST

     Articles, Lectures, Writings of George Boas

     Box 1 - Academic Freedom.
             Academic Freedom Today.
             Academic Tenure.
             Adler, Moritmer.
             Aesthetic Judgment.
             Aesthetics.
             Aesthetics and the Artist.
             Aesthetics of Literature.

     Box 2 - Africans.    
             Ages of the World.
             Ajax.
             Alamanni, Luigi.
             Alanus de Insulis.
             Alexander of Aphrodisias.
             Ambrose.
             American Indians.
             Ancient Philosophy.
             Animals and Man.
             Anthropology
             Anti-Christ.
             Anti-Intellectualism.
             Anti-Primitivism.
             Antigone.
             Are There Two Cultures.
             Aristotle.
             Aristotle - Logic.
             Aristotle - The meaning of Nature in Aristotle.
             Aristotle - Method.
             Aristotle - Miscellaneous.
             Aristotle - Necessity and Chance.
             Aristotle - Physics, Presuppositions.
             Aristotle - Politics.
             Armory Show.
             Arnobius.

     Box 3 - Art & America.
             Art and Magic.
             Art and Psychiatry.
             Art and Subject Matter.
             Art and Tatse.
             Art Criticism.
             Art Criticism of Contemporary.
             Art - Miscellaneous.
             Art - Modern.
             Art, morals, and the Teaching of Art.
             The Art of Tomorrow.
             Art - Round Table, New York.
             Artists.
             Augustine.
             Authority and the Church.
             Authorship.
             Avitus.
             Bacon, Francis.
             Bagehot, Walter.
             Baker, John Tull.
             Balance Sheet.
             Balduin.
             Baldwin, H. Streett.
             Bardesan.
             Bary, Rene.
             Baudelaire, Charles.
    
     Box 4 - Beecher, Henry Ward.
             Beginnings of Romanticism in America.
             Being and Existence.
             Belaval, Yvon.
             Bell, Charles G.
             Bellori, Gio. Pietro.
             Berenger de la Tour.
             Bernard of Clairvaux.
             Boas, George - Bibliography.
             Boas, George - (Civic Desighn Comittee Certificate).
             Boas, George - "The Critic's Eye."
             Boas, George - JHU Magazine, Sept. 1973, p.39 re Boas.
             Boas, George - Military Service Record.
             Boas, George - Miscellaneous Correspondence.
             Boas, George - Stockbrokers Records, Robert Garrett &
                            Sons.
             The Bracelets.
             Brehier, Emile.
             Brown University.
             Burke, Edmund.
             Burnet, Thomas.
             Calvin, john.
             Can We Still Be Free?
             Carus Lecture Notes.
             Causation.

     Box 5 - The Challenge to Science.
             Cherubs.
             The Child.
             The Church.
             Citizens Committee.
             The City As a Work of Art.
             Civil Liberties Award.
             Civilization and Routine.
             Clement of Alexandria.
             Clement (Pseudo-Clement of Rome).
             Cole, Thomas.
             Columbus, Christopher.
             Commencement JHU 1965.
             Communication in Dewey's Aesthetics.
             The Cones.
             Conservatism - Aristotle.
             Copernicus.
             Corippus.
             Cosmas of Prague - Early Bohemians
             Courbet, Gustave.
             The Craftsman
             The Critic as Philosopher.
             Cross Currents of the Italian Renaissance.
             La Cuba.
             Cubism.
             Cuisine des Anges.
             Cultural Relativism.
             Cultural Relativism ans Standards.
             Cupid.
             Cycles.
             Cynicism.
             Daumier, Honore.
             Defense of our Times.
             Definition of Pedantry.
             Dewey, John.
             Dewey and Modern American Literature.

     Box 6 - Differentia of Man.
             Doctorates.
             Dubos, Rene.
             Duns Scotus.
             The Earthly Venus.
             Easton, Lloys D.
             Edelstein, Ludwig.
             Education.
             Education - General and Special.
             Educational Superstitions.
             Eighteenth Century.
             En Regardant les Images.
             The Enemies of Education.
             Engle, Ralph L., Jr.

     Box 7 - L'Epicier de Troyes.
             Epistolograhpers.
             Equalitarianism.
             Essential Visual Arts.
             The Ethics of Plotinus.
             Euthanasia.
             The Evasion of Responsibility.
             Experience.
             The Fall, Consequences of.
             Fashions in Criticism.
             Fashions in Philosophy.
             Feibleman, James K.
             Fenelon, Francois de Salignac de la Mothe.
             Films.
             Fixation of Symbols.
             The Flight from Time.
             Folk Songs.
             Forkosch, Morris D.
             Fourth Eclogue.

     Box 8 - France, 16th Century.
             Freedom and Authority.
             Freedom and Indifference.
             French Phiosophy.
             Genda, Minoru.
             God, Conception of.
             Golden Age.
             Gongora.
             Goths.
             Graham, John.
             Greeks on Art and Artists.
             Griswold, A.B.
             Hamlet.
             Happy Ending.
             Harvey, Thomas.
             Harwood, Edward.
             Hay, William.
             Haymo of Halberstadt.
             Heidegger, Martin.
             Herder, Johann Gottfred von.
             History.
             History of Ideas.
             History of Ideas, Dictionary of.
             Honorius of Autun.
             Horror.
             How to Avoid Thinking.
             How to Kill a University.
             Human Nature.
             The Humanistic Implications of Science.
             Humanities.
             The Humanities and the Modern World.
             The Humanities and the Sciences.
             Hume, David.

     Box 9 - Idea.
             Impressionism.
             India.
             Intellectual History: Debit and Credit.
             Isidore of Seville.
             Israelites.
             Ivins, Barbara.
             Jefferson, Thomas.
             Jerome.
             Johns Hopkins University.
             Johnson, Samuel.
             Junior Philosophus.
             Knots.
             Kristeller, Paul Oskar.
             Kubie, Lawrence S.
             Lactantius.
             Lain Entralgo, Pedro.
             Language.
             Lattimore, Owen.
             Lattimore and Civil Liberties.
             Lattimore Defense Fund.

     Box 10 - Legacy of Humanism.
              Lemaire de Belges, Jean.
              Leonardo Da Vinci.
              A Lesson for the Sciences.
              The Limits of Experimentation.
              Literary Aesthetics, 1952-53.
              Literary Evaluation.
              Literature (Miscellaneous Material).
              Living and Learning.
              The Living Book.
              The Lonsome Dodo.
              Love.

     Box 11 - Lovejoy, Arthur O.
              Lovejoy, Arthur O. (Biography by Daniel J. Wilson,
                                   Mss.).
              Loyalty Oaths.
              Luxury.
              Mackenzie, Sir George.
              Macksey, Richard. ("Cantus Aerum," by Richard
                                  Macksey.)
              Macksey, Richard (partial inventory of Boas Papers).
              Magi.
              The Man in the Daguerreotype.
              Mandelbaum, Maurice.
              Manet, Edouard.
              Marcellus Palingenius
              Martin, R.M.
              Maslow, Abraham H.
              Meaning.
              Measure of Excellence.

     Box 12 - Micro-Macrocosm.
              Miscellaneous.
              Mona Lisa.
              Monotheism.
              Montague.
              Morris, William.
              The Museum as Arbiter of Taste.
              Myth.
              Nature and Art.
              Nature, State of.
              A New Voice.
              Niagara Falls Gazette.
              Norton, Charles Eliot.
              Oasis in the Ruins.
              Oppenheimer, Frank J.
              L'Ordre Social dans la Cite Moderne.
              Origen.
              Orosius.

     Box 13 - Palamedes.
              Panofsky, Erwin.
              Paphnutuis.
              Paradise.
              The Pastor's Daughter.
              Peasants.
              People as Artist.
              Perception.
              Perceptual Element in Cognition.
              The Petrifiecation of Forms.
              Phaestes Disk.
              Ph.D-ocracy
              Philo-Judaeus.
              Philosophies of Science in Florentine Platonism.
              Philosophy and the Art of Living.
              Philosophy and common Sense.
              Phiosophy and Ritual.
              Philosophy for Americans.
              Philosophy for the Modern Artist.
              Philosophy - Modern
              Philosophy of Design
              Piles, Roger de.
              Planning.
              Plato.
              Plato - Alcibiades.
              Plato - Classification of Dialogues.
              Plato - Documents
              Plato - Hippias Major
              Plato - Life of.
              Plato - Laws.
              Plato - Phaedrus.
              Plato - Problems.
              Plato - Spurious Dialogues.
     Box 14 - Plotinus.
              Plural Sovereignty.
              Pratt Institute.
              Pre-Columbian Art.
              Pre-Raphaelites
              Prediction.
              Primitivism.
              Problem of the Humanities.
              The Problem of Municipal Government.
              Problems of the Arts.
              The Professor Dines Out.
              Protophilosophy.
              Proudhon, Pierre Joseph.
              Psychophysical Dualism.
              Realite de l'Europe.
              The Rediscovery of America.
              Reid, Thomas.
              Renaissance Philosophy.
              Responsibility.
              Return to Authority.
              Reynolds, Sir Joshua.
              Richards, I.A.
              Richter, Curt P.
              Ronsard, Pierre de.
              Russian Science.

     Box 15 - St. Quentin - Siege.
              Salvianus.
              Sarah's Drawings.
              Saving France.
              Scepticism.
              Science for the Humanist
              Scythians - Medieval and Modern.
              The Search for Standards.
              Secret Doctrines.
              See Olivet First.
              Self Education.
              Self in Romanticism.
              Seres.
              A Sermon for Humanists.
              Shryock, Rishard H.
              Sidonius.
              Simple Life.
              Singer, E.A., Jr.
              Socrates.
              Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
              A Speech for Any Occasion.
              Standards.
              Starkey, Thomas.
              Statistics.
              Stevenson, Adlai.
     Box 16 - Still Life.
              Surrealism.
              Symbols.
              A Task for the Humanities.
              Taste.
              Teaching the History of Philosophy.
              Teaching the Humanities.
              Techniques of Intimidation.
              Temporal Universe.
              Theophilus.
              Thomson, J.
              Thoreau - Civil Disobedience.
              Tolman, Richard Chase.
              Tradition.
              Unity.

     Box 17 - Unity - Art.
              Unity - Ethics.
              Unity - History.
              Unity - Introduction.
              Unity - Ontology and Cosmology.
              Unity - Political
              Unity - Psychological.
              Unity - Religion.
              Unity - Scientific.
              Unity - Sociology.
              Values.
              Vico, Giambattista.
              The Villain.
              Violence.
              Virginia - Education.
              Vita Adae it Evae
              Voices of Silence.
              Vox Populi Vox Dei.

     Box 18 - Wagner, Richard.
              War (speeches, etc.).
              Wesley, John.
              What is a Fact?
              What is a Picture.
              Wheeler, Harvey.
              Williams, Roger.
              Woman.
              Yates, Frances A.
              The Youth Replies.
              Zeno.
              Zola, Emile.

     Notebooks of George Boas

     Box 19 - Aristotle, notebook with mss. notes by Boas.
              French Phiosophy, 3 notebooks with mss. notes by  
               Boas.
              History of Philosophy, 1 notebook with mss. notes by
               Boas.
              Impasse II, 1 notebook with mss. notes by Boas.
              Internationalism, 1 notebook with mss. notes by Boas.
              Misc. notes with latin and Greek texts, 3 notebooks
               with mss. notes by Boas.
              Essay - Plato, Spinoza, Kant, 1 notebook with mss.
               notes by Boas.

     Box 20 - Maupertuis, 1 notebook with mss. notes by Boas
              Notes III and IV, 2 notebooks with mss. notes by
               Boas.
              Preliminary Study of the History of Theories of the
               Emotions, 1 notebook with mss. notes by Boas.
              Primitivism I, 1 notebook with mss.  notes by Boas
              Theriophily I and II, 3 notebooks with mss. notes by
               Boas.

     Reprints of George Boas

     Box 21 - Aesthetics and the Artist.
              Art, Time and Eternity.
              A Basic Conflict in Aristotle's Philosophy.
              The Classification of the Arts and Criticism.
              Communication in Dewey's Aesthetics.
              Defense of the Operational Theory of Meaning.
              An Eightfold Confusion in Aesthetic Evaluations.
              The Esthetic of Leo Sein.
              The Evolution of the Tragic Hero.
              The Greek Tradition in Painting.
              Historical Periods.
              History of Affective Psychology.
              How to Kill a University.
              In Defense of the Unintelligible.
              Joshua Reynolds as arbiter of Taste.
              The limits of Education.

     Box 22 - The Measure of Excellence.
              The Meeting of Philosophy and Psychology.
              Parmenides and Authority.
              Philosophy and the Art of Living.
              Philosophy and Ritual.
              Plotinus: Complete Works.

     Box 22
     (Cont.)

              The Problem of the Humanities.
              The Problem of Meaning in the Arts.
              Prophecy and History.
              The Quest for Certainty, by John Dewey (book review
               by Boas).
              The Rediscovery of America.
              A Soldier at the Sorbonne.
              Some Assumptions of Aristotle.
              La Tentation Manicheenne
              Time and the Human Spirit.
              Tradition.
              Warfare in the Cosmos.

     Reprints of Various Authors

     Box 23 - d'Aulnay, Jose - [Poems]
              Biser, Erwin - Postulates for Physical Time.
              Bedsorff, Thomas - Lovejovianism
              Brogan, A.P. - Aristotle's Logic of Statements about
               Contingencey.
              Cherniss, Harold - The Characteristics and Effects of
               Presocratic Philosophy.
              Cook, Albert S. - Language and Action in the Drams.
              Crew, Henry - Biographical Memoir of Joseph Sweetman
               Ames.
              Dewey, John - Psychology and Philosophic Method.
              Dingman, Robert - The Question of Trapping.
              Ducasse, C.J. - Is Life After Death Possible?
              During, Ingemar - Notes on the History of the
               Transmission of Aristotle's Writings.
              Edelstein, Ludwig - William Osler's Philosophy.
              Feuer, Lweis S. - Is the "Darwin-Marx Correspondence"
               Authentic?
              Feuer, Lewis S. - Teleological Principles in Sciencs.
              Forkosch, Morris D. - Antitrust in the United States.
              Gilbert, R. Gordon - Early Concepts of Scientific
               Law.
              Glenn, Edmund S. - Some Suggestions for the
               Epistemological Analysis of Cultures.
              Hall, A. Rupert - Newton and HIs Editors.
                "   "     "   - Two Centuries of Progress in
               Science and Technology.
              Hall, Marie Boas - The Royal Society's Role in the
               Diffusion of Information in the 17th Century.

     Box 23
     (Cont.)

              Jenkins, Iredell - Logical Positivism, Critical
               Idealism and the Concept of Man.
              Koenig, X. - Histoire Sainte.
              Kristeller, Paul Oskar - Between the Italian
               Renaissance and the French Enlightenment : Gabriel
               Naude.
              Magel, Charles R. - A Select Bibliography on Animal
               Rights and Human Obligations.
              Mandelbaum, Maurice - Darwin's Religious Views.
                  "          "    - Some Neglected Philosophic
               Problems Regarding History.
              Mason, Gabriel Richard - God, Pro and Con.
              Nahm, Milton C. - The Relation of Aesthetics and
               Criticism.
              Park, B.A. - A Sequentia Cum Prosa by John of
               Garland.
              de Ponte, Sexagenarius - Hanc Pontem.
              Price, Kingsley - What Makes an Experience Aesthetic?
              Ramnoux, Clemence - Philosophie de la Philosophie.
              Sanborn, Herbert - Dingler's Methodical Philosophy.
                 "        "    - Experiment as Creative Act.
              Santayana, George - The Genteel Tradition in American
               Philosophy.
              Spitzer, Leo - Les Theories de la Stylistique.
                 "      "  - Two Anglo-French Etymologies.
              Straus, Erwin W. - The Sigh, an Introduction to a
               Theory of Expression.
              Taubes, Jacob - Memorandum Concerning a Collextion of
               Texts and Fragments "Origins of the Free Spirit."

              Taubes, Jacob - On the Nature of the Theological
               Method.
                 "      "   - The Realm of Paradox.
              Temkin, Owsei - Call and the Phrenological Movement.
                "       "   - German Conxepts of Ontogeny and
               History around 1800
                "       "   - Medicine and the Problem of Moral
               Responsibility.
              Virtue, Charles F. Sawhill - Creativity and
               Symbolism.
              Wilson, David C. - The Neuroses of Everyda Living.
              Zilboorg, Gregory - Psychoanalysis and Religion.

     Box 24 - Miscellaneous catalogues and periodicals.