Word: babbittism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Babbitt believed that, in its essential features, the artistic, philosophical, and critical life of today are an integral part of the Romantic Movement which flourished most brightly in the early part of the last century. In this sense he was dissatisfied with the "modern movement", which he was able to track back to Jean-Jacques Rousseau in one of his chief works, "Rouseau and, Romanticism". His other books extend the idea of intellectual and moral decline since the days of Rousseau and the democratic theorists to the field of politics in "Democracy and Leadership", to modern education, in "Literature...
...apostle of the New Humanism, a famous scholar, and a wise teacher were lost to Harvard Saturday when Irving Babbitt, '89, professor of French and Comparative Literature, died at his Cambridge residence on Kirkland Street after an illness of nine months...
Professor Babbitt was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1865, the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Babbitt. He graduated from Harvard with class of 1889, took his master's degree, and directly afterwards, 1893 took an instructorship at Williams College. The following year he returned to Harvard, however, and held the post of instructor of French until 1902, when he became an assistant professor. Since 1912 he has been a full professor, and has gained much fame from his courses, Comparative Literature 9 and 11, chiefly on the subject of Rousseau and the Romantic Movement...
...Professor Babbitt married Dora May Drew of Cambridge, who survives him, as do his son, Edward S. Babbitt, and his daughter Edith now Mrs. G. F. Howe of Cincinnati...
...Harvard professors have had the power to inspire their students that Professor Babbitt had," said E. K. Rand, '94 Pope Professor of Latin said on Sunday night, in connection with the death of Irving Babbitt, '89 professor of French and Comparatine Literature and protagonist of the philosphy of the New Humanism. "He was, of course one of the stoutest defenders of the cause of the classics and humanism. His works were read all over the world, and like his lectures, show great virility and a high sense of value. His place will be impossible to fill...