Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tentative plans call for discussion of topics related to international relations, American politics, problems of industry, modern education, and religious questions. Students will take a leading part in these discussions, with authorities present for conference and advice...
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...
...Call Money Rate, for the first time since July, 1921, rose to 6½%. Banks one day withdrew ten million dollars from the money market; Memorial vacation day's impingement was another cause; and twenty million dollars to England in the week a third...
BUT?GENTLEMEN MARRY BRUNETTES ?Anita Loos?Boni & Liveright ($2.00). Well, it seems that nothing makes a publisher become so sentimental in a financial way as the day he can call an authoress a best seller. I mean, a writer of the well-read books. I mean, he will give anything for more of my thoughts, because they seem to have intreeged the interest of people that pay for literature. And since I seem to be thinking all the time anyway, I might just as well not be doing it for nothing, and write it down. And anyway a married...
...figures dealing with the number of undergraduates using the library must of necessity lack complete accuracy, since no record is kept of the use of the Lower Reading Room. The very marked increase in the number of men using the Upper Reading Foom and the Call Desk, however, indicates that a proportionate increase has probably taken place in the Lower Reading Room...