Word: humanistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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KYRA KYRALINA-Panait Istrati -Knopf ($2.50). Five years ago, hospital attendants in Nice found upon the person of a wretch who had cut his throat unsuccessfully, a letter addressed to Author Romain Rolland, the French pacifist-humanist. The patient lived and, encouraged by M. Rolland, wrote many stories, of which this book contains the first three to be published in English...
Humanism has much of the vagabond spirit. It recognizes the lutility of boundaries, national or academic, and the barren wastes of ordered patterns. Often it gathers as little moss as any rolling stone. Erasmus, on the other hand, humanist of humanists, picked up much moss in his travels to Oxford and France. Those more regular and ordered souls who have sat through a year of History 7 point to the lecture on Erasmus as one of the many high points of the course. Professor Whitney will deliver it at 11 o'clock, this morning in Emerson...
...this book we have a poet's interpretation of a temperament, a dramatist's portrayal of a life of extraordinary energy, a thinker's analysis of its complexities, a humanist's pitying comprehension...
...ultiquity of these motives calls for a reaction. Professor Holcombe's "Political Parties of Today", for example, discards, in its very logical history of Democratic and Republican politics, all forces less constant than King Cotton and King Corn. Excellent extremes like this are apt to annoy some humanist...
...student soon becomes competent to select authors for himself. In the departments of his "distribution" he is also possessed of some kind of compass. But unless his education has gone far beyond that of the average undergraduate all else is an uncharted sea. To have friendly access to a humanist who would pilot him past the shoals of literary rubbish and trash to the great books that are beacons of knowledge would be an opportunity of a lifetime...