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...with faith in democracy. Pedagogy is his prime interest and he seeks to introduce the experimental methods of the laboratory to social and political science. He is a Darwinian evolutionist, stressing growth as the hopeful fact of life, utility as the guiding fact. He is greatly admired by Author Durant (1885-), director of the Labor Temple School, Manhattan. Dr. Durant gives the impression of valuing philosophy, "that dear delight" of Plato, not primarily for the intellectual ecstasies to be experienced in examining noble works of the human mind (though these ecstasies are well known to him), but for the immediate...
...STORY OF PHILOSPHY-Will Durant-Simon & Shuster ($5). *Cf. EDUCATION AND THE GOOD LIFE- Bertrand Russell-Boni & Liveright ($2.50) - (TIME, June...
...Hibben of Princeton; Professors Alexander Meiklejohn of Wisconsin, Edward S. Ames of Chicago, Ernest Albee of Cornell, Jared S. Moore of Western Reserve, Dickinson S. Miller of Smith, Rufus M. Jones of Haverford, Ourant Drake of Vassar, G. W. Cunningham of Texas, John Drew of Columbia and Will Durant of the Labor Temple School, Manhattan (whose extensive work, The Story of Philosophy, will shortly be published), and their equals...
...Council when the question arose whether or not letters should be awarded to the three men who played in the hockey game with Princeton but did not play in the Yale game. The three men under consideration were C. I. Wylde '27, George Crawford II '28, and J. B. Durant '27. All three men will be back next year...
...Durant, reared in Michigan although born in Boston, was seemingly a man beaten financially. That year he was forced out of his controlling interests in the General Motors Co. and the Chevrolet Motors Co. The former he had organized in 1908, three years after he had organized the Buick Motor Car Co. Between 1908 and 1909 he bought the Cadillac, Oakland, Oldsmobile and Northway motor companies; in 1915 got control of General Motors and also organized the Chevrolet Co. All these he lost at a swoop in 1920. But the very next year he rebounded by organizing Durant Motors...