Word: deweyitis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...article in your June 3 issue headed "Miltown? No Martinis!"? The bird who pecked out another story in the People section concerning the search in the Library of Congress for an old song wanted by a Congressman? The Library of Congress system bears about the same resemblance to the Dewey decimal system as I'd Rather Be a Lobster Than a Wise Guy bears to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Two institutions as holy as the Library of Congress and the Martini are not laughing matters...
...everlasting glory of the Dewey decimal system" in no way assisted the L.C. in its search for the song about the lobster. The Library of Congress uses its own system. MARJORIE W. SCHAAP Hollis...
Thomas E. Dewey. . . . LL.D...
...John Dewey Arrives...
About the time of 1932's sophomore mid-years, four memorable events occurred: John Dewey was appointed William James Lecturer for the second semester of 1930-31; Russian sociologist Pitrim A. Sorokin, now director of the Institute for Creative Altruism, was appointed to head the Committee on Sociology and Social Ethics; 90 men were arrested in a mass subway riot; and the charred plot of ground on Soldiers Field where the locker building had stood before the January 14 fire, was being prepared for the new Dillon Field House, designed by the omnipresent Messrs. Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbott...