Word: johnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...football game, Cornell fullback Phil Taylor took a pass from quarterback Dave McKelvey, got past two Harvard defenders, and scored on a 76-yard touchdown play that put the Big Red ahead for the first time all afternoon, 18 to 16. It hardly mattered that McKelvey passed to John Sadusky in the end zone for two more points; the varsity had lost after building up a seemingly insurmountable lead. The defeat, shocking and demoralizing in its suddenness, had a profound effect on players, coaches, and spectators that did not disappear for a long time...
...John Yovicsin began the long walk across the field to congratulate his opposite number, coach Lefty James of Cornell. He, too, did not look up as he made his way through the crowd. After the handshaking and fragmentary conversation he moved toward his next obligation, the weekly press conference...
Next Tuesday, October 20, marks the hundredth anniversary of John Dewey's birth. In memory of the philosopher, Antonius Savides, a retired professor prominent in certain educational and psychological circles, has written down an interview he remembers having with Dewey in Lowell House some years...
...nearly three decades John Dewey has been recognized, and is recognized, as the most influential thinker in education and philosopher in general, not only in America but in the world. What is, at least in part, the secret of his greatness...
...historic address on his seventieth anniversary on October 19, 1929, I heard John Dewey say in New York, "...one of the conditions of happiness is the opportunity of a calling, a career which somehow is congenial to one's own temperament. I have had the sheer luck or fortune to be engaged in the occupation of thinking; and while I am quite regular at my meals, I think that I may say that I would rather work, and perhaps even more, play, with ideas and with thinking than eat. That chance has been given...