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...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...
...read many lines of this gloomy piece to discover the ghost writer of its dogmas. For a less violent but less concise statement of the snares and delusions of American utilitarian education--political, religious, and social, as well as academic, one should browse in the books of Professor Babbitt. Almost to a phrase the attacks on utilitarianism, immediacy, cheapness, indolence, and shying from moral and mental effort, emanate, seemingly, from the twilight of Sever 11. In American education, to quote from the humanistic code, there is an "elementary confusion of standards," and the blame lies on the self-styled...
Like Professor Babbitt, Mr. Jones offers no plan for reconstruction. He is sick of plans, and all the pictures of graph-mad and system-ridden normal school experimenters which they connote. He merely desires a healthy clearing of the underbrush of American education, and an unplanned but carefully nurtured reforestation of sound principles...