Word: humanistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scholar-Writer Bliss Perry retired almost three years ago and Humanist Irving Babbitt died last July, but Harvard still has giants in its English department. One of them is tiny, big-voiced John Livingston Lowes, 66, keen student of the Romantic Movement. He is perhaps the most brilliant U. S. example of the great scholar-teacher whom President Conant wants on his faculty. Another giant is snowy-bearded George Lyman Kittredge, 73, bon vivant, Chaucer and Shakespeare authority, prime link between Harvard's past & present...
...your issue of Dec. n: "Charles Francis Potter suggested to The First Humanist Society of Manhattan that 'lynching' be changed to 'Rolphing...
...First Humanist Society of New York. New York City...
...Charles Francis Potter suggested to the First Humanist Society in Manhattan that "lynching" be changed to "Rolphing...
...book makes no important original contribution to the humanist's argument, nor was it intended to. It is an excellent summing up, a clearing of issues. The convinced disciple will revel in it. The opponent will do well to study it, if only to find what he is opposed...