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John Dewey was born at Burlington, Vermont, a cold pinnacle of New England culture, on Oct. 20, 1859. To him came the rude, germinal, quickening call of the Midlands. He grew up to teach philosophy in the universities of Michigan (1884-88), Minnesota (1888-89), Michigan (1889-94) and Chicago (1894-1904). There the pragmatism?the "practicality" ? of his philosophy was nurtured on a basically pragmatic human soil. Dewey, more than anyone else, may be justly called the Philosopher of the American continent. With characteristic "practicality" he has declared:* "Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device...
...boat chuffed along the greening, creek-cut shore of Lake Champlain near Burlington, Vt., an afternoon last week. Men of the third New England Recreational Conference had lunched and in easy chairs were giving flitting attention to ways of enticing the U. S. to play among New England's unquestionable beauties. Last year Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Rhode Island spent $107,500 of public money on advertising their state values...
...meeting of the Instrumental Clubs held at Phillips Brooks House last night the new officers for the clubs were elected. Richard Stedman Holden '29 of Burlington, Vermont was elected President; Frederick Herman Gade '31 of New York City was elected Vice-President. William Raymond Driver '29 of Milton was elected Secretary; Lawrence Edward Mallinckrodt '30 of St. Louis was elected Treasurer. For the other offices, William Frost Mann '30, of Brookline was chosen Librarian; Bernard Davis Hanighen '30 of New York City leader of the Mandolin Club; Robert Murray Whittemore '31 of East Orange, N. J., leader of the Banjo...
...letter in TIME, March 26 purporting to be from C. L. Dean of Burlington, Iowa, caused me to inquire about him there to learn the reason for his bias against Christian Science. Careful inquiries at Burlington have failed to find any C. L. Dean.* Apparently, therefore, the writer of the letter in question shrank behind an assumed name or place. His letter, however, indexed him to a certain extent by evincing heated intolerance for Christian Scientists because we choose to depend on spiritual law, power, and practice for prevention or relief from disease. Therefore, I maintain that his intolerance...
...DEAN Burlington, Iowa...