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DeWitt Henry Parker

Dewitt Henry Parker was born on 17 April 1885, in New York City to DeWitt Henry and Jennie Ada Stevens Parker. He attended Boston Latin School from 1898 to 1902. Parker attended Harvard University,earning the AB in 1906, and th PhD in 1908. His dissertation was titled "The Nature and Object of Historical Knowledge."


“In other words, art is a realm entirely separated from the interests of real life-a refuge for detached and gifted souls from sordid political and economic struggles.”
DeWitt Henry Parker
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