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Best of all, perhaps, are " Human Documents " ? letters (for which John Bull pays 10 shillings apiece) and answers by "Humanist...
...student how he should prepare for his General Examinations, but he teaches him to correlate his other studies and his general interests with his courses in the Classics. The Classics as thus presented become an outlook on life in general, as they have always been to the true humanist...
Finely educated men must be rare. Modern literature is a good-sized world in itself. The mere word "philosophy" stirs the bile of some folks. According to that accomplished humanist-philosopher, George Santayana, it has very largely come to mean "psychology" in the United States. Dean West must remember with delight the distinction attributed to President McCosh: "When two men are talking and one of them understands what the talk is about. that is metapheesics; when neither of them understands it, that is philosophy...
...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...