George E O'dell Contributors (8 results)

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the November 1927 issue (Vol. XIV No. 3 - misprinted XV on front cover) of "The Standard: Published to Promote Ethical Thinking & to Encourage Better Ways of Living" edited by Felix Adler and published by The American Ethical Union out of New York City. A stapled magazine measuring 6-3/4" by 10" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Small, round, faint clear-embossed stamp of the Colorado College Library to front cover; previously, but lightly, folded; short narrow brown waterstain to right page edges (to blank margins only). Containing articles and Ethical Movement news, the articles are: The Ethical Ideal on Fieldston Hill by Felix Adler (on Fieldston School); Glimpses of [Joseph] Conrad by Henry J. Golding; The Menace of Socialization by Charles M. Perry; Doing Without by Henry Neumann; Ethics and Social Service by Elwood Street; Saith the Preacher by George E. O'Dell; "Fieldston" ("Dr. Adler lays the Corner Stone of the new Preprofessional Department of the New York Ethical Culture School"). Felix Adler (1851-1933) was a social reformer and rationalist who founded the Society of Ethical Culture in 1877 and the American Ethical Union in 1889.

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the March 1927 issue (Vol. XIII No. 7) of "The Standard: Published to Promote Ethical Thinking & to Encourage Better Ways of Living" edited by Felix Adler and published by The American Ethical Union out of New York City. A stapled magazine measuring 6-3/4" by 10" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Small, round, faint clear-embossed stamp of the Colorado College Library to front cover; previously, but lightly, folded; short narrow brown waterstain to right page edges (to blank margins only). Containing articles and Ethical Movement news, the articles are: Liberty - 150 Years After by David Saville Muzzey; The People's Will Against War by Arthur Ponsonby; Experimentalism and Marriage by Henry J. Golding; The Problem of Imperialism by William T. Stone; Man - and Men by George E. O'Dell; Impressions of Soviet Russia by Robert A. Heckert. Arthur Ponsonby (1871-1946) was a British politician, writer, and social activist most remembered for his 1928 ground-breaking revisionist study entitled "Falsehood In War Time: Containing An Assortment Of Lies Circulated Throughout The Nations During The Great War.".

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the December 1927 issue (Vol. XIV No. 4) of "The Standard: Published to Promote Ethical Thinking & to Encourage Better Ways of Living" edited by Felix Adler and published by The American Ethical Union out of New York City. A stapled magazine measuring 6-3/4" by 10" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Small, round, faint clear-embossed stamp of the Colorado College Library to front cover; previously, but lightly, folded; short narrow brown waterstain to right page edges (to blank margins only). Containing articles and Ethical Movement news, the articles are: The Ethical Attitude Toward the Death Penalty by Felix Adler; The Lausanne Conference and Its Results by Alfred W. Martin; "The Right to Be Happy" by Henry Neumann; Buttsy McGinnis: A Hudson Guild Story by John L. Elliott; European and American Educational Currents by Frederick J. Gould; The Messiahship of Man by George E. O'Dell; The Russian Scene ("Address by Dr. George Price"); Capital Punishment: A Bibliography; The Cleveland Meeting: Report of A.E.U. [American Ethical Union] Annual Assembly. John Lovejoy Elliott (1868-1942) was highly involved in the Settlement Movement and founder of the Hudson Guild Settlement House in 1897; Frederick J. (James) Gould (1855-1938) was an English teacher, writer and secular humanist.

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the October 1927 issue (Vol. XIV No. 2) of "The Standard: Published to Promote Ethical Thinking & to Encourage Better Ways of Living" edited by Felix Adler and published by The American Ethical Union out of New York City. A stapled magazine measuring 6-3/4" by 10" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Small, round, faint clear-embossed stamp of the Colorado College Library to front cover; previously, but lightly, folded; short narrow brown waterstain to right page edges (to blank margins only). Containing articles and Ethical Movement news, the articles are: Religion and the Modern Mind by C. Delisle Burns; An International Ethical Code by Alfred W. Martin; As a Matter of Fact by Percy A. Houseman; Some Thoughts on Behaviorism by Horace J. Bridges; Blessed Be Uniformities! by George E. O'Dell; History for The People by David Saville Muzzey ("A Review of Charles and Mary Beard's 'Rise of American Civilization'"). C. (Cecil) Delisle Burns (1879-1942) was a leading English atheist, secularist writer and lecturer; David Saville Muzzey (1870-1965) was an American historian whose history textbooks were widely used; accused of being a "bolshevik" by the Better America Federation, he served as senior leader of the New York Society for Ethical Culture.

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Ethical Movement. Offered is the May 1926 issue (Vol. XII No. 9) of "The Standard: Published to Promote Ethical Thinking & to Encourage Better Ways of Living" edited by Felix Adler and published by The American Ethical Union out of New York City. A stapled magazine measuring 6-3/4" by 10" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Small, round, faint clear-embossed stamp of the Colorado College Library to front cover; previously, but lightly, folded. Containing articles and Ethical Movement news, the articles are: Fifty Years: Epilogue and Prologue by Percival Chubb; The Sources of Undying Inspiration by Felix Adler; An Ethical Confession of Faith by David Saville Muzzey; The New Education for Work by Henry Neumann; The Iron String by George E. O'Dell; A Note on Ethical Fundamentalism by Henry J. Golding; Tendencies Toward Unity in Religion by Alfred W. Martin; The Ethical Movement: Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration; Index to Volume XII of The Standard. Percival Ashley Chubb (1860-1959) was a founding member of the Fabian Society in 1884, associate leader of the Society for Ethical Culture from 1897-1910, and President of the American Ethical Union from 1934-39; David Saville Muzzey (1870-1965) was an American historian whose history textbooks were widely used; accused of being a "bolshevik" by the Better America Federation, he served as senior leader of the New York Society for Ethical Culture.

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the February 1927 issue (Vol. XIII No. 6) of "The Standard: Published to Promote Ethical Thinking & to Encourage Better Ways of Living" edited by Felix Adler and published by The American Ethical Union out of New York City. A stapled magazine measuring 6-3/4" by 10" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Small, round, faint clear-embossed stamp of the Colorado College Library to front cover; previously, but lightly, folded; short, light, narrow brown spot to right edge of each page (to blank margins only). Containing articles and Ethical Movement news, the articles are: Present Conditions in Mexico by Frank Tannenbaum; The Revolt of Modern Youth by Henry Neumann; Negroes in the Cities by William H. Baldwin; Prohibition and Its American Background by John L. Elliott; The Secret in the Poet's Heart by George E. O'Dell; "Aspects of Ethical Religion" by V. T. [Vivian Trow] Thayer ("A Review of the Essays Written in Honor of Dr. Felix Adler"). Contributor V. T. [Vivian Trow] Thayer (1886-1979) was a progressive educator and author; Frank Tannenbaum (1893-1969) was an Austrian-American historian, sociologist and criminologist who was, in his early years, active in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and was arrested - along with Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Alexander Berkman - during the Bayonne refinery strikes of 1915-16 in Bayonne, New Jersey.

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the April 1926 issue (Vol. XII No. 8) of "The Standard: Published to Promote Ethical Thinking & to Encourage Better Ways of Living" edited by Felix Adler and published by The American Ethical Union out of New York City. A stapled magazine measuring 6-3/4" by 10" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Small, round, faint clear-embossed stamp of the Colorado College Library to front cover; previously, but lightly, folded. Containing articles and Ethical Movement news, the articles are: The Ethical Attitude Toward the Departed by Felix Adler; Serenity and the Stars by George E. O'Dell; What Is Happening in the Orient Today? by W. Boyd-Carpenter; What Happens to the Faith of College Students by Horace J. Bridges; American Labor Banking by Leo Wolman; The Next Step in Education: Latest Plans and Efforts for the New Ethical School in New York; Toward the "Religion of the Future" by Horace Holley (a book review of "Comparative Religion and the Religion of the Future" by Alfred W. Martin). Horace J. (James) Bridges (1880-1955) was a British author, lecturer, and leader of the Chicago Ethical Society; Leo Wolman (1890-1961) was an American economist who served six months with the American Peace Mission which negotiated the Treaty of Versailles and who joined the faculty in 1919 at the New School for Social Research.

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the April 1928 issue (Vol. XIV No. 8) of "The Standard: Published to Promote Ethical Thinking & to Encourage Better Ways of Living" edited by Felix Adler and published by The American Ethical Union out of New York City. A stapled magazine measuring 6-3/4" by 10" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Small, round, faint clear-embossed stamp of the Colorado College Library to front cover; previously, but lightly, folded; short, narrow brown waterstain to right page edges (to blank margins only). Containing articles and Ethical Movement news, the articles are: The Doctrine of Fascism by Cecil Delisle Burns; Visions and Tasks by Alfred W. Martin; Thomas Hardy's Reply to the Challenge of Life by Henry Neumann; The Old Diplomacy by Moritz Kirchberger; Modern Humanists by George E. O'Dell (book reviews of several titles). C. (Cecil) Delisle Burns (1879-1942) was a leading English atheist, secularist writer and lecturer.