Word: humanists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appointment follows the retirement last year of Dean Roscoe Pound, who had served as University Professor since 1935, when the four posts were first established. The other three chairs are currently held by Werner Jaeger, Classicist; Summer H. Slichter, economist; and Ivor A. Richards, humanist...
Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, will address a meeting of the Humanist Society in the Chapel Room of Phillips Brooks House at 5 p.m. next Tuesday...
...humanist believes that man is responsible for his own progress and that the highest moral values are soley the product of man's social experiences...
Ostensibly Faustus is the biography-in-progress of a fictitious German composer, Adrian Leverkühn, who was born in 1885 and died insane in 1940. The biography is being written during World War II by his lifelong friend, Serenus Zeitblom, a professor, a dedicated parlor humanist and a typically humorless academic product of pre-Hitler German Kultur. This combination of dates, musical genius and philosophical reflection gives Mann, as his old readers could easily guess, a chance to air his views on such Mannish concerns as the problem of the artist in society, the free play of mind...
With regard to the letters from Symon Gould and E. L. Pratt [TIME, May 3], and your quote from my Humanist as Hero; the Life of Sir Thomas More to substantiate what you previously wrote about More's meat-eating habits, let me add that what Erasmus says comes from a very long and detailed letter about his closest friend...