Word: babbittism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clean sweep when it met Browne and Nichols yesterday on the Divinity Courts. None of the sets went to extra games, the Crimson players winning with little difficulty. The most interesting contest was the doubles match in which J. D. DuBois and Parke Cummings of the Freshman team defeated Babbitt and Parker, 6-4, 6-4. The other results were: in the singles, Captain Pfaffman defeated Parker, 6-1, 6-2; C. W. Farnham Jr. defeated Collier, 6-1, 6-2; in the doubles W. E. Crosby Jr. and E. St. R. Reynal defeated Carpenter and Collier...
...should like to avail myself of your columns for a few remarks on the new sheet, The Aristocrat. First of all let me suggest a more fitting motto: There is no god but classicism and Irving Babbitt is its prophet. For the editors might at least have been gracious enough to acknowledge those statements more obviously taken over from Professor Babbitt's writings and lectures...
Professor Irving Babbitt '89, speaking at a meeting of the Liberal Club last night on "True and Sham Liberals", emphasised the point that the struggle of today was not between conservatives and liberals, but between true and sham liberals. He defined the true liberal as a man who believes in fair play, moderation, and compromise; the sham liberal as a man who puts forward secondary virtues as primary ones. For instance he professes sincerity, open-mindedness, and a forward looking spirit; whereas the actual questions are those of right or wrong, selection, and real imaginary questions. Therefore...
...Irving Babbitt to speak to Liberal Club at Cranford Club...
...Irving Babbitt: to speak to Liberal Club at Cranford Club...