Word: humanistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been stripped of temporal power beyond the tiny (108.7 acres) Vatican enclave. Only 22 years before that, Pope Pius IX had fled when Mazzini and his revolutionists seized control of Rome. In Pacelli's childhood the world outside the Vatican seethed with anticlericalism and glowed with humanist confidence in the ever onwardness and upwardness of history. Today the papacy and the Catholic Church are immensely stronger. Part of the story is told in numbers: during Pius XII's reign, Catholics throughout the world grew from 388,402,610 to 496,512,000 despite attrition in Iron Curtain countries...
There is the usual amount of intellectual division between the arts and the engineering students. However, engineer and humanist are stripped of their intellectual clothing and herded together again for Lehigh's next process of separation: fraternity rushing. (Upperclass figures--5, dormitory residents; .4, residents at one of the university's 30 national fraternity chapters; .1, commuters...
...acquiescence. Among the prominent townspeople in Boss Brigante's pocket is the chief of police, Attilio, a fine figure of a man who has at one time or another seduced most of the prominent women in town in Brigante's apartment. Only Judge Alessandro, a scholarly humanist, refuses to play Brigante's way. But the judge has his own troubles. His Junoesque wife insists on sleeping alone and has just fallen in love with Brigante's son, a law student...
...Corliss Lamont '24, of the philosophical faculty of Columbia Univ., to whom I referred previously, there are--to mention only a few--such men as Dr. Hermann J. Muller, professor of zoology at the Univ. of Indiana, Nobel Laureate in medicine (genetics), now president of the American Humanist Association (A.H.A.); Dr. Chauncey D. Leake, Ass't Dean of the Medical School at Ohio State University, now vice-president of the A.H.A.; Dr. George Axtelle, professor of education at New York University; Dr. Harold A. Larrabee, professor of philosophy at Union College; and the Rev. Edwin H. Wilson, pioneer...
...have named several men who are officers of the American Humanist Association. For those unfamiliar with the A.H.A. it can be stated that it is the national organization of Humanists, with headquarters at Yellow Springs, Ohio, which corresponds in the field of Humanism to our other national societies in the respective fields of the several arts and sciences. Membership in the A.H.A. is open to all in sympathy with its viewpoint and objectives, and its strong representation in academic and professional circles constitutes impressive evidence of the important position which Naturalistic Humanism has attained in contemporary American thought. Harold...