WVOQ #2 Willard Van Orman Quine - cleancut

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Printonly/Quine.html - had also studied. A fellow student suggested that he would find reading Bertrand Russell's works interesting and indeed reading Russell and Whitehead's Principia Mathematica quickly convinced Quine that he should study mathematics as his major subject with the philosophy of mathematics as a secondary topic. O'Grady writes in [6]:- Quine's years at Oberlin were idyllic. His rooming house, full of kindred spirits was "an ideal setting in which to wax articulate". His appetite for cosmic understanding was sharpened by reading Russell. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1930 and then won a scholarship to study for his doctorate at Harvard University. He married Naomi Clayton, who he had known at Oberlin College, soon after arriving in Harvard. Quine completed his doctorate in two years supervised by Alfred