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...this book we have a poet's interpretation of a temperament, a dramatist's portrayal of a life of extraordinary energy, a thinker's analysis of its complexities, a humanist's pitying comprehension...
...ultiquity of these motives calls for a reaction. Professor Holcombe's "Political Parties of Today", for example, discards, in its very logical history of Democratic and Republican politics, all forces less constant than King Cotton and King Corn. Excellent extremes like this are apt to annoy some humanist...
...student soon becomes competent to select authors for himself. In the departments of his "distribution" he is also possessed of some kind of compass. But unless his education has gone far beyond that of the average undergraduate all else is an uncharted sea. To have friendly access to a humanist who would pilot him past the shoals of literary rubbish and trash to the great books that are beacons of knowledge would be an opportunity of a lifetime...
...School, Concord, N. H., moves another figure very visible upon the educational horizon - the Rev. Samuel Smith Drury, rector. Thought of by many as a formalist because of his dignified, clerical presence and rather stiff manner in public, Dr. Drury is at heart, and in method, a humanist. He believes in atmosphere. He believes in being "one of the boys"; walks with them; works with them; remembers their first names forever; keeps abreast of their family affairs. His school is noted rather for the stamp of cultured, urbane gentility that it imparts to its graduates, than for preeminence...
...Humanist " who asks: " Have you done anything to cause your wife to act like this...