The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.
In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.
I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe.
I think Veblen had an interest in logic.
I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.
I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.