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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...College Faculty Mr. Norton stood as our great humanist. Though easily confused with dilettanteism, and then justly laughed at, humanism when solidly grounded begets a kind of awe. This Mr. Norton experienced. He was a welcome member of a company of scholars who almost from chlidhood had been so charged with responsibility for single subjects that the relations of these to man's interests as a whole had been often overlooked. A representative of that wholeness Mr. Norton became. To the anxious debates of the Faculty, through which the modern Harvard has been gradually evolved, he brought the steadying influence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHARLES ELIOT NORTON '46 | 10/23/1908 | See Source »

Nathaniel Southgate Shaler '62, "Naturalist and humanist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Honorary Degrees Conferred. | 9/29/1903 | See Source »

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