Word: babbittism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life William Wordsworth touches only at rare intervals that higher inconsistency which is popularly conceded to poets. The conventionality of his prosaic life is as unconventional as "poetic rapture" would be in the pecadilloes of George Babbitt. In an attempt of fit Wordsworth into the poetic niche of the normally abnormal. Professor Read finds in the key to the true Wordsworth, the well of his poetic emotion. Professor Herford, on the other hand, looks upon the life of the poet with the cold, green eye of pedantic scholarship. He manages to maintain his equilibrium as far as Wordsworth...
...pattern in lieu of an individual may conceivably be the product of House units. And if faculties are such fools as the writer believes they may carelessly allow a hot-head or two to wiggle into their midst. In one of his minor digressions, Mr. Hale attacks Professor Babbitt of Harvard. From the tenor of the article, one might expect Professor Babbitt to be the epitome of the author's desires. Not a hot-head to be sure, but the humanist has on occasion provoked intelligent and original thinking; even his undergraduate opponents, and they are legion, will admit...
...COAST Caturani, f.b. f.b., Jones Sonenfield, r.w. r.w., Gannon Nichols, r.c. r.c., Ossorio Whitney, l.c. l.c., Draper Potter, l.w. l.w., Earling Sherman, s.o.h. s.o.h., Kirkland Smith, h.b. h.b., Boyd Gilbert, l.f. l.f., Linder White, l.f. l.f., Elmore Davis, l.f. l.f., Osborne Schwyzer, 2f 2f., Lemann Moore, 2f. 2f., Bokenson Babbitt, 3f. 3f., Hunting Ward, 3f. 3f., Mitchell Simmonds, 3f. 3f., Watt...
...Wordsworth, First of the Lake Poets." Professor Babbitt, Sever...
...this morning at 9 to hear a lecture on Kant. He has always been interested in the man, although his knowledge has been limited to shy, experimental puns on the philosopher's name and a rather dim feeling that Fiechte, Schleiermacher and all the others the Vagabond has heard Babbitt talk about must have followed...