Word: humanistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...control, group health, euthanasia (mercy-killing), the abolition of capital punishment, eugenics, calendar reform are causes which might seem something dissimilar. Yet in Manhattan last week, representatives of organizations vowed to these six causes met in a united front. This clan gathering, celebrated the tenth birthday of the First Humanist Society, a body devoted to the spread of a man-centred, God-denying religion...
Religious Humanism-not to be confused with the philosophic "New" or "Literary" Humanism championed by Walter Lippmann, Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More some years ago-is considerably older than the First Humanist Society. In Minneapolis, Rev. John Hassler Dietrich, nominally Unitarian, has preached this non-supernatural faith for nearly 25 years. But the Manhattan society was founded and is run by one of the most articulate and ubiquitous of U. S. divines, Dr. Charles Francis Potter, onetime Baptist, onetime Unitarian, onetime Universalist. Long a popularizer of religion, in books and lectures, Dr. Potter is currently absorbed with the study...
...Congressional Library at Washington, D.C. (now librarian emeritus), was given the J. W. Lippincott Award ($500) for distinguished service in librarianship, in accepting told the American Library Association, outspoken opponent of President Roosevelt's selection of Poet Archibald MacLeish to succeed him, that as a Scot, poet, humanist, lawyer, soldier, and orator, Poet MacLeish was a fine man to be Congressional Librarian...
...Pseudonymous writings like the Book of Enoch and other early Eastern texts. Dr. Charles Francis Potter, Manhattan Humanist and Bible expert, has worked for years, will work for years more, on a psychological study of Jesus in which the pseudepigrapha will figure. Most authoritative collection of New Testament apocrypha: The Apocryphal New Testament, edited by M. R. James (Oxford University Press...
...exercise (squash and tennis), loves to argue, has a laugh like a small thunderclap, six children and a comely wife (née Mary Hallowell, sister of two famed Harvard athletes) who sometimes needs to remind him where he parked his car. An earnest student, a disciple of Humanist Paul Elmer More, Crocker is a practitioner of "muscular Christianity." In this he resembles old Dr. Peabody, who used to play games with his students...