Word: humanistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father was a rich woollen merchant, but owing to a certain youthful folly with a girl of fifteen I was sent abroad. He allowed me £400 a year and on his death that was increased to £600. . . ." (Humanist answered: " My opinion is that £600 a year is exactly £600 a year too much...
Best of all, perhaps, are " Human Documents " ? letters (for which John Bull pays 10 shillings apiece) and answers by "Humanist...
Some of the troubles on which Humanist gives advice...
...student how he should prepare for his General Examinations, but he teaches him to correlate his other studies and his general interests with his courses in the Classics. The Classics as thus presented become an outlook on life in general, as they have always been to the true humanist...
Finely educated men must be rare. Modern literature is a good-sized world in itself. The mere word "philosophy" stirs the bile of some folks. According to that accomplished humanist-philosopher, George Santayana, it has very largely come to mean "psychology" in the United States. Dean West must remember with delight the distinction attributed to President McCosh: "When two men are talking and one of them understands what the talk is about. that is metapheesics; when neither of them understands it, that is philosophy...