Word: sarton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Humanism is an old word; it has been used in the past to represent the movement away from rigid scholarship towards life, away from rigidity of subject matter towards its interpretation in common experience. However the "New Humanism" of Dr. George Sarton deals exclusively with the broadening of the scientific viewpoint of determining its relation to history, and it is on this subject that he will deliver the three Colver lectures at Brown University this spring...
...George Sarton, Lecturer on the History of Science, has been chosen to deliver the Colver Lectures at Brown University this spring on "The New Humanism." This series of three lectures, to be published later in the year, will not interrupt any of Dr. Sarton's courses at Harvard...