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Edward M. Purcell, Noble prize winner in physics, will be the first Gerhard Gade University Professor, increasing the ranks of university professors to seven. Harry T. Levin '33 will assume on July 1 the Irving Babbitt Professorship of Comparative Literature, a new chair named after the literary critic and French professor who taught Levin while at College...
...chair honoring Babbitt was proposed by President Pusey, who also studied under him while in College. Babbitt taught in the field of French literature from 1894 until 1933 and introduced the comparative study of literatures to Harvard. One of his most important critical works was Rousseau and Romanticism...
...Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born." But things, it seems, are neither so bad, nor so good, nor so interesting. According to the researches of U.S. Economist David Granick, Soviet Russia's new man is a devoutly respectable, ulcer-prone businessman with a close resemblance to George F. Babbitt, of Zenith, U.S.A...
Vladimir F. Babbitt of Nadir, U.S.S.R., clings to status by his clean fingernails with a tenacity that makes many of his U.S. counterparts seem like beatniks by comparison. In Author Granick's "study of the organization man in Russian industry," it almost seems as if the Bolsheviks, having failed to lick the bourgeoisie, had decided to join them...
...Vladimir Babbitt is not a compulsive but a compulsory joiner: his party card is his badge of acceptability. But whatever the country and whomever it profits, a wheel is a wheel is a wheel. Production quotas must be met. Fear and pride make the Red executive an adept at the fine but dangerous art of cooking the books; thus there is more Potemkin fakery than socialist realism in Soviet statistics...