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"The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received."
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"The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received."

"I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy."

"Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s."

"I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton."

"And what I learned in Church's course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers were presented. I think the second paper wasn't published until well after the course was finished."

"When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that."

"Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis."
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