Word: babbittism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more new doctrine in a long train--transcendentalism, pragmatism, New Thought, Christian Science--which had suddenly captured in turn various intellectual layers of the popular imagination. The national attention which humanism captured probably grasped little more of it than the fact that it was something earnestly preached by Irving Babbitt which had a great deal to say against Rousseau, and that it was furnishing a great deal of amusement to those who found Mr. Mencken's critical style amusing. Humanism, as Professor Mercier demonstrates but does not say, is a philosophy and an attitude which by its nature must...
Winthrop: Morris, r.e.; Cannan, r.t.; Schwyzer, r.g.; Emerson, Johnson, c.; Sise, l.g.; Dunton, l.t.; Babbitt, l.e.; Cranston, q.b.; Haring, Hindle, l.h.b.; Bottomley, r.h.b.; Taft...
Winthrop: Morse, Haring, l.e.; Dunton, l.t.; Sise, l.g.; Johnson, c.; Emerson, l.g.; Carman, Hindel, r.t.; Babbitt, r.e.; Cranston, Sise, q.b.; Counihan, Downs, h.b.; Taft...
...Irving Babbitt '89, professor of French and Comparative Literature, and Dr. Arthur Kingsley Porter, professor of Fine Arts, two of Harvard's most prominent professors, have died during the past summer...
Professor Babbitt died on Saturday, July 15, at his Cambridge residence on Kirkland Street, after an illness of nine months. Since 1912, he had been a full professor and had gained much fame from his courses, Comparative Literature 9 and 11, chiefly on the subject of Rousseau and the Romantic Movement. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Dora Drew Babbitt, his son, Edward S. Babbitt, and his daughter Edith, now Mrs. G. F. Howe of Cincinnati...