Word: dewey
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...allowances. This is due to the failure of Congress to give him the rank and pay of a General for life. In Washington, there is some dissatisfaction with this failure of Congress, because General Pershing is well equipped physically to continue in active service; and because, by contrast, George Dewey was made an Admiral of the Navy with full pay for life...
Married. Dr. Melvil Dewey, founder-President of the Lake Placid Club, and Mrs. Emily McKay Beal, manager-Vice President of the same club; at Lake Placid...
...discussion of liberal speakers and the Union is sufficiently recent to make the comments of Professor John Dewey on "The Liberal College and its Enemies" both interesting and instructive. There is perhaps little reason to quarrel with his analysis that "subservience, timidity, and illiberality in the American college" are caused in the first place by the peculiarly inimate relations between public opinion and schools for higher education at the time of their origin and at present, and in the second by the "uncertain state of the sciences or inquiries that deal with social matters." Yet the solution he offers...
...hope and dependence of the liberal college, says Professor Dewey, "lie in the growth of the free mind and the perfecting of standards of thought and inquiry." It is doubtless toward this goal that the present tendencies are merging--for Professor Dewey himself declares that much progress has been made in the last quarter of a century. Yet rather than wait for the slow if inevitable triumph of liberalism and its methods over conservative reactionaries it is conceivably possible to aid its progress by attacking those causes of illiberalism which have been identified...
Another of these books, the "Relativ Frequency of English Speech Sounds" by Godfrey Dewey '09 gives data of indispensable importance for the foundation of any scientific study of shorthand problems. The text is written in "simplified" spelling as can be seen from the title. In commenting upon this book Mr. D. L. Pottinger '06 of the University Press said, "The facts brought out in this book recall to me the New York Times affair of last fall. The Times, for some unknown reason, asked various professors of Princeton and Yale what were the most important words in the English language...