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...life, Professor von Blanckenhagen has through a combination of desire and circumstance begun his teaching career comparatively recently. He entered Hamburg University in 1929 and transferred to Berlin in 1930. Thence he went to Rome for independent study and research, receiving his doctorate from Munich in 1936. As a humanist, he was loath to begin an academic career under the Nazis. His first academic position, as a non-teaching fellow, was with the University of Marburg in 1941, from whence he was appointed to the faculty of Hamburg University in 1946. From 1947 to 1949 he was a visiting lecturer...
Died. Ralph Barton Perry, 80, gaunt, horn-rimmed humanist and longtime (1913-46) professor of philosophy at Harvard, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1936 for The Thought and Character of William James; near Boston. A liberal, individualist and internationalist. Philosopher Perry rejected as "presumptuous and foolish" the notion of God as "a kindly indulgence at the seat of cosmic control," was alternately gloomy and optimistic about the U.S.'s future, concluded that its strength lies in its bedrock foundation of puritanism and democracy...
...staff carefully cleaned off the layers of paint, found underneath the gleaming silver features of an unknown bishop whose miter was handsomely jeweled (see opposite). The enameled coats of arms and Latin inscriptions on the bust further identified the piece as a work commissioned by the great Italian Humanist Poggio Bracciolini and his wife Vaggia. A search of the records brought out the fact that about 1438 Poggio had indeed given to the Church of Santa Maria in his native village of Terranuova, south of Florence, a reliquary for the bones of St. Lawrence, one of Rome's most...
...create this university; we do not accept his confusion, his failure to conclude what to do with the banished "good scholar" students and professors; we do not accept the inhuman (and it is Mr. Raditsa's term) hate, fear and isolation which is the basis of this "humanist's" book. The Editors, The Harvard Advocate
...change. If Faculty consideration were delayed until April, the plan could still be put into effect for the class of 1959. While the Biochemistry department naturally wishes to be a great deal more than an intermediate stage in General Sciences, the premeds' intricate path through scientific jungles and humanist waste lands must be kept clear of every possible obstruction...