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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...
Knowing how sensitive educated people are it's remarkable how Boston and Cambridge newspapers insist on being stupidly comical. We read in the Cambridge Tribune of July 21: "With Paul Elmer More and W. C. Brownell he (inving Babbitt) represented what the modern mind is likely to symbolize as the ivory tower." Sounds like some well known Tutoring Bureau notes on Comp...
...death of Irving Babbitt is in its way as great a loss to Harvard as the retirement of President Lowell. A great university derives its merits from its fostering of men who delight in fighting against the popular currents of the time. Babbitt was such a man and his voice cried in a wilderness. Robert B. Lisle...