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A pioneer among secular newspapers was the Boston Transcript when it instituted a religious department - "The Churchman Afield"-33 years ago. The "Churchman" was Herbert Hervey Fletcher, who had gone into journalism in 1879, became manager of the New England Associated Press in 1887, associate managing editor of the Transcript...
The 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.
"Few Harvard professors have had the power to inspire their students that Professor Babbitt had," said E. K. Rand, '94 Pope Professor of Latin said on Sunday night, in connection with the death of Irving Babbitt, '89 professor of French and Comparatine Literature and protagonist of the philosphy of the...
Humanism used to be a good subject for parlor and dinner table discussions. Few people knew what it actually was or ' where literary Humanism left off and religious Humanism began. Nor did Humanism's expounders get together and codify their beliefs for popular enlightenment. Rev. Charles Francis Potter...
¶ The universe is self-existing, not created. ¶ Man is part of nature, product of his culture, his environment, his social heritage. The traditional dualism of mind and body must be rejected. ¶ Humanism also rejects cosmic and supernatural "guarantees." The Humanist eschews theism, deism, modernism, "new thought'...