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...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...
...Heard himself praised as a "humanist" by Chase S. Osborn, former Republican Governor of Michigan, who denounced Wendell Willkie as a "rapacious capitalist...
Religious Humanism-not to be confused with the philosophic "New" or "Literary" Humanism championed by Walter Lippmann, Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More some years ago-is considerably older than the First Humanist Society. In Minneapolis, Rev. John Hassler Dietrich, nominally Unitarian, has preached this non-supernatural faith for nearly 25 years. But the Manhattan society was founded and is run by one of the most articulate and ubiquitous of U. S. divines, Dr. Charles Francis Potter, onetime Baptist, onetime Unitarian, onetime Universalist. Long a popularizer of religion, in books and lectures, Dr. Potter is currently absorbed with the study...