Word: babbittism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rousseau's Influence on the Novel: La Nouvelle Heloise", Professor Babbitt, Sever...
Under the direction of the Department of History and Literature Professor J. L. Lowes and Irving Babbitt will speak at the Master's Lodgings of Kirkland House on Thursday at 8 o'clock on the Bible and Shakespeare examinations for concentrators in History and Literature...
...explain to Sophomores concentrating in the field of History and Literature the purpose of the Bible and Shakespeare examinations which are held in the spring Reading Period. Professor Lowes will start the meeting with a talk on the Bible examination and its significance in the field, and Professor Babbitt will talk on the Shakespeare requirements...
...gods sent to relieve the tedium of depression and that irritating Eastern imbroglio. This is after all "that best of all possible worlds" in which everything is designed to a certain end. Let T. N. T. be the cathartic necessary to purge the American system, for, as Professor Babbitt would have it, Mr. Hadley has "poured his baby out with the bath...
Applied to university teaching, Dr. Count's appeal has a much wider application. A Harvard student should have sufficient discretion to judge the comparative values of the different theories presented him. It is safe for Professor Babbitt to expound the wonders of Humanism as long as Professor Lowes continues to defend the Romantics. The student will progress further towards forming a philosophy of his own in this way, than by listening to any one man, no matter how open-minded. But in a small college this plan presents its dangers. There, it is too expedient for an instructor to share...