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...current Nation ("radical" weekly), one Clarence E. Cason, sometime University of Wisconsin rhetoric pedagog, tells the woeful tale of Jeff Burrus, "the university's best electric signboard," Phi Beta Kappa member, Junior Prom chairman, footballer, crew captain. Pedagog Cason said that Paragon Burrus suffered a nervous breakdown from his wide participation in college affairs. Winning a Rhodes scholarship, he went abroad, suffered another breakdown. "Out of his experience has come the conviction that college athletics used him rather shabbily. . . . His picture tends to show conclusively that a football player has no time or thought to give to anything...
Birthday. John Dewey, most famed U. S. pedagog-philosopher; in Manhattan. Age: 70. For three days he listened to fellow pedagog-philosophers gathered by a national committee around Columbia University, speak on "John Dewey's influence in the Schools," "John Dewey's Influence on Education in Foreign Lands," "The Philosophy of John Dewey," "John Dewey in Social Welfare...
...Pedagogs and libertarians join this week celebrating the 70th birthday of Columbia University's shaggy John Dewey, pedagog, libertarian, "greatest living U. S. philosopher." Philosopher Dewey celebrated the coming event himself by marching last week, as chairman of a new league for independent political action, to a radio microphone to broadcast his indictment of U. S. politics. His phrases sounded earnest but threadbare. Excerpt...
...members something new to think about. For years the N. E. A. has advocated the establishment of a U. S. Department of Education with a representative in the Cabinet. How much more likely, wondered observers, would the Government be to "dictate" in educational matters if the chief Federal pedagog were raised from, the lowly rank of Commissioner to be a full-fledged Secretary...
...world's finest-through what many a critic pronounced "the poorest orchestral program of the year." Three U. S. works were introduced: Prelude to a Drama, by Sandor Harmati, conductor of the Omaha Orchestra; Study in Sonority (for 40 violins-title by Stokowski), by Wallingford Riegger, New York pedagog; Indian Dances, by Frederick Jacobi, of California...