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Secession by Consent. In the single lifetime of His Majesty, who was born in 1858, the Swedish people have increased from fewer than 4,000,000 to over 6,200,000-almost as many people as live in London or New York City. The Swedes have devoted their whole toil and savings during this period to peace and social progress, eschewing the waste of war. As a child, Gustaf V was sent to a Stockholm private school and his then reigning uncle, King Karl XV, was engaged at this time in shepherding a gradual constitutional change, whereby effective political power...
...Social Democrats are the dominant party in Sweden, as all over Scandinavia, but today Sweden's humbly born, self-educated Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson, no towering figure of social dynamism, takes life and politics just about as easily as does King Gustaf, with whom he frequently sits up into the small hours at the Royal Palace playing bridge...
...walked off with five of the eight Carnegie prizes, and did it with a true melting-pot flourish. Second prize went to Yasuo Kuniyoshi; second, third and fourth honorable mentions to Raphael Soyer, Aaron Bohrod and Ernest Fiene, U. S. artists all, though only Brook and Bohrod are native-born. Russian Marc Chagall, Spanish Mariano Andréu and Parisian Maurice Brianchon, who all paint in France, won the three remaining prizes...
...Born in Burlington, Vt., where his father kept a general store displaying a sign: "Ham and Segars, Smoked and Un-smoked," John Dewey raised Yankee common sense to the status of a full-fledged philosophical system. Essence of his philosophy is indicated in the proverb: "The proof of the pudding is in the eating." Truth, to John Dewey, is not fixed or absolute, changes as conditions change. And he believes that the highest virtue is intelligence, that intelligence means resolving a problem with the answer that 1) is most workable, 2) makes the most people happy. Moral basis...
...chose a Scot to be its president. It never regretted its choice. It liked witty, tolerant William Allan Neilson so well that when he retired last June it asked him to help choose his own successor. Last week Dr. Neilson and Smith's trustees together picked another British-born scholar to head the college: Herbert John Davis, a native of Northamptonshire, now chairman of the English department at Cornell...