Word: humanistic
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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...
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler '62, "Naturalist and humanist...