Word: humanizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those who looked for the President is answer directly the charges recently hurled by the Cambridge Union of University Teachers, that his annual report idea of cutting down on University enrollment was a "ploughing under of human brains," were disappointed, for the President did not mention the accusation...
...real furore came when it was President Conant's turn to hand in a report. Seldom have an innocent author's words been so maligned. A group of comparatively intelligent figures on the local scene called it a deliberate attempt "to plough under human brains." One or two of our contemporaries in Middle Western colleges thought it was a proposal to slay the first-born in every family. This was not just what the President meant, but he should have made himself clear...
There was one difference: our friend made one mistake. He was above all practical. Ideals, hollow traditions and mock morals were not for him. With gentle, piercing strokes, he painted human nature as it was then and has always been. His writings have been a mirror in which men have seen themselves as they were, and the image has not pleased them...
That held to human terms the facts you knew...
...Your human scheme gave every type a place...