Word: mercier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sudden capture of the national attention by humanism in the year 1930," says Professor Mercier, "might at first seem strange." Strange, but not unprecedented. To a large section of the national attention, the New Humanism was only one more new doctrine in a long train--transcendentalism, pragmatism, New Thought, Christian Science--which had suddenly captured in turn various intellectual layers of the popular imagination. The national attention which humanism captured probably grasped little more of it than the fact that it was something earnestly preached by Irving Babbitt which had a great deal to say against Rousseau, and that...
...title might be misleading. A book with such a title is generally in opposition and in reply to the challenge. But Professor Mercier is one of the challengers, and the challengees are all those who feel confident that the new and revolutionary philosophies of the last few hundred years are putting us on the right track, however confusedly. The book is a set of definitions and explanations: most useful in the welter of shibboleths and manifestoes that have been piling up under the heading of humanism in the last few years...
...chuckles continually. No nitwit is he, although he says of a steam engine device newly invented by his brother in Geneva: "It does something about the puff-puff-the exhaust-but I am not sure what it is." The Catholic University of Louvain educated him; the late Cardinal Mercier ordained him; M. I. T. taught him physics and English; Louvain created for him a chair of relativity. At 39 he deals with Nobel laureates...
...interpreter is to be L. J. A. Mercier, associate professor of French and Education. A delegate for Panama has not been selected as yet, but there will be a complete group of delegates when the dramatization is given...
...Baillie '33, J. F. Farr '33, A. G. Malkan '33, J. J. Ryan '33, and T. I. Moran '32. The debates, which will be open to the public, will be judged by W. S. Howell, instructor in Public Speaking, Professor J. A. Mercier, and Professor A. C. Sprague...