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tion. The list of his published works is 

 long and varied. He had written a volume 

 of Anacreontic Odes before he was nineteen, 

 ten years later he published a survey of the 

 intellectual movement in America; in the 

 following decade he was publishing philo- 

 sophical studies; in the forties he was 

 writing political tracts and later turned his 

 attention to problems of education. 



The public life of Dr. Varona has been 

 in entire accord with the best traditions of 

 a University professor and a man of letters. 

 For many years he has held the chair of 

 Psychology, Moral Philosophy, and Sociol- 

 ogy in the University. 



For a brief period he was one of the 

 Cuban Deputies in the Spanish Cortes, 

 and for more than two years he held office 

 first as Secretary of Finance and after- 

 wards as Secretary of Public Instruction 

 during the first American Intervention. 

 He was elected in 191 2 Vice-president of 

 the Republic but at the end of his term 

 retired to the academic and literary life 

 which was more to his liking. He was 

 President of the Anthropological Society 



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