Word: humanistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picked up from Denmark's Nazi-controlled Kalundborg radio). On April 30 death had come to 82-year-old Jens Otto Harry Jespersen after an operation in Roskilde's hospital. In this handsome Danish giant of scholarship, English grammar lost its greatest living historian, Europe an outstanding humanist...
...concerned from first to last with the problem of working out values by which modern men can live. One certainty about U.S. universities is that, despite their present absorption with wartime training schemes, they cannot evade the ultimate problem of "value." In the light of that long-term prospect, Humanist Mumford, now 46, goes to Stanford with determined ideas of what has to be done...
...hand for the school's launching at a luncheon in San Francisco's Bohemian Club was Humanist Lewis Mumford. Said he: "Here is a challenge to a fresh creative effort in education . . . the production of complete human beings, harmoniously disciplined to create within themselves and within their society the order that will banish the barbarous mechanisms and the mechanized barbarisms that now threaten...
...converted to Catholicism at 20, became professor of philosophy at the Institut Catholique in Paris. Outstanding secular centre of Thomism in the U. S. is the University of Chicago, where President Robert Maynard Hutchins and Mortimer Jerome Adler (How to Read a Book) urge Aquinas and other humanist thinkers upon their students. Scholasticism and Politics represents Maritain's recent lectures at Chicago...
...change in Iowa's fortunes took place eleven years ago when famed Psychologist Carl Emil Seashore, grand old man of the University, decided that Iowa should go in for creative arts. In came Humanist Norman Foerster to head the School of Letters, Artist Grant Wood to teach in the School of Fine Arts. They believed that the way to learn about art was to produce it. Soon Iowa's husky pupils were enthusiastically painting, sculpting, writing, acting, composing. Scornful of second-hand scholarship, Iowa's teachers let students win their degrees by substituting for a traditional thesis...