Word: philosophere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Dewey was born at Burlington, Vermont, a cold pinnacle of New England culture, on Oct. 20, 1859. To him came the rude, germinal, quickening call of the Midlands. He grew up to teach philosophy in the universities of Michigan (1884-88), Minnesota (1888-89), Michigan (1889-94) and Chicago...
Even a simpleton would know from this that Philosopher Dewey has been driven by his concept of philosophy to become an educator. He is one of the greatest. His small volume School and Society (1899) caused world wide repercussions among pedants, pedagogs & preceptors. His lectures at Peking, while he held...
*Author of the widely popular Travel Diary of a Philosopher & The Book of Marriage.
In the restaurant of the estimable Lin Hing, at No. 2, the Bowery, Manhattan, there assembled last week 15 notable Chinamen who proceeded to found the Chinese Aero League of America. President of the League Dr. Tien Lee Huang announced for next August a 10,000-mile air race from...
So said John Davison Rockefeller, at the age of 60, when he was fingering the yellowed leaves of a precious document, his own Ledger A, which he had kept as a 16-year-old assistant bookkeeper in a Cleveland commission house. That all-inclusive creed, conceived in youth, ex- pressed...