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HUMANISM AND AMERICA
Tuesday night at eight in Fogg Museum Professor Garrod of Oxford University will lecture on "Matthew Arnold as Critic": This lecture on the great Victorian may well be of particular interest to those vagabonds who find themselves aware of the literary influences sometimes called the New Humanism.
Humanism is an old word; it has been used in the past to represent the movement away from rigid scholarship towards life, away from rigidity of subject matter towards its interpretation in common experience. However the "New Humanism" of Dr. George Sarton deals exclusively with the broadening of the scientific...
Dr. George Sarton, Lecturer on the History of Science, has been chosen to deliver the Colver Lectures at Brown University this spring on "The New Humanism." This series of three lectures, to be published later in the year, will not interrupt any of Dr. Sarton's courses at Harvard.
"The New Humanism" is an expression first used by Dr. Sarton fifteen years ago. It is the movement to humanize science by studying it from the historical point of view as an essential part of human culture. Dr. Sarton's lectures will probably deal more particularly with the history of...