Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gordon W. Allport '19, professor of Psychology, will speak tonight over station WCOP at 8 o'clock on "Why Babies Behave as They Do" as part of the Lowell Institute's series on "We Human Beings." Accompanying Professor Allport will be a panel of students from four local colleges, including William F. Clark '48 and Nancy Buhrer, Radcliffe...
...When I read of your 'human' deeds toward 'distressed German youth' and of how your new worshipers applauded you, I knew that in your audience there must have sat those two passionate lovers of music, Eppel and Kempke-SS men from the Kurewitz camp near Lemberg-who liked to have us sing while they shot our brothers down. . . . Wherever you travel our newspaper will follow you like a curse until your conscience awakes...
When future historians investigate the culture of the early 20th Century, they will look farther afield than the newspapers; magazines and books also tell the human news of their day. Among the files the historians will consult will be the little magazines-and one of them will doubtless be Chicago's slim Poetry: a Magazine of Verse. Last week, in a special 72-page number marking its 35 years of life, Poetry took a historical look at itself...
...Director Edmund W. Sinnott: "Science is modern, popular and dominant. It needs no special pleaders.... It cannot help being tempted to a certain arrogance and a conviction that the keys of truth are in its hands alone. [But] logic and reason are no monopoly of science. . . . Science regards a human being not as a soul which may be saved or lost but as an exquisitely constructed physicochemical mechanism. ... To many thoughtful minds the gains of science are secondary and superficial things...
Yale's scientific program is designed to put in practice the warning Dr. Sinnott gave his fellow scientists last week: "The sciences must be taught not as a privileged and superior discipline but as parts of a great whole and against the background of all human knowledge. Only whole men can save the world today...