Word: humanistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bangs is perhaps best known as a humorist; but his greatest ambition is to be considered a humanist, since it is with the human side of things that his interest is chiefly concerned. In the spring and summer of 1918, and again in 1919, Mr. Bangs traveled much over France, Belgium, and the occupied districts of Germany, as representative of the American Committee for Devastated France, and also as a Red Cross worker and volunteer Y. M. C. A. lecturer...
Kipling is still being read by the University, and the result may be studied in several areas of the present Advocate. O. Prescott '20 has produced an original variation on Stalky by Inserting Professor Babbitt, under the title of Hugo and Humanist, into two pages of frivolous conversation; and "Billet Ballads No. 4," by J. F. Leys, '22, is a mixture of Kipling's early Indian manner with the pseudo-English of the Saturday Evening Post. One serious flaw is common 'to' both these versious. Nothing happens in them; nothing even seems to happen.- Whereas Kippling had the gift...