Word: babbittism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year Dean Briggs '75, Arthur Stanwood Pier '95, William Roscoe Thayer '81 and Irving Babbitt '89 were among the prominent men who assisted in judging the competitions. Though the arrangements have not been definitely completed, it is hoped to procure the services of these, together with those of other well-known literary men, as judges in the different branches of the present competition...
Kipling is still being read by the University, and the result may be studied in several areas of the present Advocate. O. Prescott '20 has produced an original variation on Stalky by Inserting Professor Babbitt, under the title of Hugo and Humanist, into two pages of frivolous conversation; and "Billet Ballads No. 4," by J. F. Leys, '22, is a mixture of Kipling's early Indian manner with the pseudo-English of the Saturday Evening Post. One serious flaw is common 'to' both these versious. Nothing happens in them; nothing even seems to happen.- Whereas Kippling had the gift...
...philosophical and ethical field we have Mr. Mercier's able review of Professor Babbitt's new humanism--"A Renaissance of the Law for Man"--as the governing principle of life in place of a sentimental romanticism or the equally sentimental naturalism. The easy road of laudatory self-indulgence is no longer to be justified by an appeal to nature as the final law. Reason is again to assert its kingship in the domain of life; man is to turn from "the anarchistic ideal of unchecked self-expression to the practice of the disciplines which humanize the individual and make...
...Rugg, chairman, and Miss Emma Wilder, H. B. Cutler and Miss Esther Babbitt, H. M. Doherty and Miss Dolores Lidano, T. F. Dolan and Miss Veronica Ryan, J. H. Marr and Miss Mildred Harrison, A. N. Osgood and Miss Charlotte Potter, R. P. Rogers and Miss Elizabeth Carlson, R. Simpson and Miss Dorothy McNamara...
...contributions for the Advocate's $25.00 prize offered for the best essay on religion, education, or liberalism. The manuscripts should contain not more than 2,500 words, although more than one manuscript may be submitted, each of which should be signed by the contributor. The judges are Professor Irving Babbitt '89, A. M. '93, and Messrs. Ellery Sedgwick '94, and William Roscoe Thayer '81, A. M. '86, Litt.D. '13. Mr. Sedgwick is editor of the Atlantic Monthly; Mr. Thayer, who was an editor of the Advocate, is the author of "The Life and Times of Cavourt" and several other notable...