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John Dewey, professor of Philosophy at Columbia and incumbent of the new William James Lectureship for the second half of the present academic year, will give the first of a series of ten public lectures on "Art and the Aesthetic Experience", at 4 o'clock this afternoon in Emerson...
Harvard was one of the recipients of a bequest totalling $25,000, it was revealed in the will of the Reverend Mr. Alva Roy Scott, made public in Knoxville, Tennessee, yesterday. The sum of $10,000 was bequeathed to Harvard for the endowment of a lectureship on the general subject of "Human Betterment...
Professor John Dewey, of Columbia University, incumbent of the new William James lectureship for the second half of the present academic year, has revealed his subject for the Inglis Lecture, which he has been invited to give for the year...
...topic upon which he will speak in Emerson D. at 8 o'clock on the evening of Wednesday, March 11, will be "Educational Confusion and Conflict." The Inglis lectureship was founded by the Graduate School of Education in honor of the late Professor Alexander Inglis, and treats in general with secondary education. The lecture is open to the general public...
...third Earl Russell (he is heir presumptive). Philosopher, mathematician, he is great & good friend to Philosopher-Mathematician Alfred North Whitehead, with whom he wrote Principia Mathematica, incomprehensible to laymen, to mathematicians a delight. During the War Russell's pacifist activities in the No Conscription Fellowship cost him his Cambridge lectureship, £100 fine, six months in prison. Twice married, he has two children (by his second wife), lives in Cornwall, where he conducts a school for children on his own educational principles. Clean-shaven, red-faced, he has thick white hair, seamed cheeks, a trenchant nose, a stubborn but unaggressive...