Word: humanisme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week the University Conduct Board of Boston College decided that the nine students who were suspended by the administration immediately following the protest action were "not guilty" on the principle of "Christian humanism."
"After considering the moral arguments put forth by the respondents and after considering the goals of the university, i.e. Christian humanism, (we) find the respondents not guilty as charged," said a statement included with the verdict. "The majority of the voting members of the University Conduct Board not only feels...
Now interest seems to be swinging back to humanism: 100 more people are majoring in English this year than last; the legions of Social Relations concentrators are diminishing. People suddenly swarm to De Broca's King of Hearts--a movie of social comment, to be sure, but artful and delightfully...
Always a humanist, McGovern proclaims. "This land of ours, this people of ours must see that we have been taught to view ourselves as competitors, and we have come to see our fellow humans in that spirit....We have lost compassion." But never forgetting the reality of politics, he translates...
"Poetry seems to come out of the Hebraic Christian tradition of humanism," he explains. "The humanistic tradition is destroyed in the big, industrial technological civilizations. In certain islands, the great universities like Harvard and certain Southern universities, we still have it, but it's not the prevailing culture any longer...