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Doctor Samuel Johnson, that eminent pragmatist, never took off his shoes and danced on a wire. Had he done so, he well knew, he would have given any alert dog the opportunity of pontifying of him, as he once did of a dancing canine. "The wonder is not that he should do it badly, but that he should do it at all." Fearful of becoming the butt of such quadrupedantry, the wise Dr. Johnson abjured wires, seldom removed his shoes.* Not so cautious was Roger Fry, proclaimed by many educated people to be the best Art critic in the world...
...Harvard Philosophical Club meeting. Address on "A Mediaeval Pragmatist," by Mr. Harry Wolfson, in Room C. of Emerson Hall...
...Kallen '03 of the department of Philosophy, will give the eighth of a series of twelve lectures on "Pragmatist" in Emerson F, this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The special subject of today's lecture will be "The Nature of Truth." The lecture will be open to members of the University and of Radcliffe College...