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Some Humanists are agnostics; others, like myself, are atheists. But this tells as little about Humanim as would be learned about Christianity merely from the information that Christians are theists. As Christianity comprises far more than theism, so Humanism, although based upon the naturalistic outlook of agnosticism and atheism, extends far beyond that premise. Humanism assimilates the spirit and substance of modern science and democracy, and incorporates the dynamic aspects of our civilization. In its concern for mankind, it equals, if indeed it does not surpass, the highest ethical level which any traditional religion has yet reached...
When a Protestant minister enters upon his ministry, he will be confronted with two main streams of thought other than his own--Roman Catholicism and Humanism. He will not even have to leave his own church to encounter Humanism, because it is no secret that many persons remain in the churches because of family or social connections, yet in belief and action they are Humanists in all but name. Divinity students will now have the advantage of learning about Roman Catholicism from their new Chair; they should be accorded equal facilities for learning about Humanism...
Until a Chair can be founded, there is a wealth of talent possible as guest lecturers in Naturalistic Humanism. If foreign sources are drawn upon, there are in England such men as Dr. Julian Huxley, biologist, formerly Director General of UNESCO, and Lord Boyd Orr, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and first Director General of the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization; and in Canada Dr. G. Brock Chisholm, formerly Director General of the U.N. World Health Organization. In this country, in addition to Dr. Corliss Lamont '24, of the philosophical faculty of Columbia Univ., to whom I referred previously, there...
...University is intent upon its search for lebensraum it might devote the warm summer evenings to pondering the possibility of building parking lots. Such a solution to the parking problem might well be expensive, but it would at least reduce the issue to its financial form...
...meanwhile, the Administration might meditate upon the fact that while students are walking the mile from the Business School lot to the Yard, the streets of Cambridge remain uncleaned despite their looming emptiness. Perhaps the real solution to the parking problem is to put a broomstick on every undergraduate bumper and allow parking everywhere...