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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...face of it, FORTUNE promises to be a meritorious scheme, to which I would gladly subscribe. But if it is on the lines of TIME as now conducted, I will not subscribe at present...
...Philosopher Dewey and all his works but simply one of Philosopher Dewey's points was suggested as a criterion whereby TIME readers might judge whether they wanted FORTUNE. The point: that "business" (or what Philosopher Dewey calls "technological industry") is the dominant characteristic of the present age. As authority for this quasi-philosophical observation, FORTUNE chose the man who has most frequently been called "greatest U. S. philosopher" although many another might have been used, as for example Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin who said (TIME, Oct. 14): "The entire globe is being embraced in a commercial order determined...
...receive LL. D.'s, at the college's 65th annual convocation. Said Harvard's Lowell: "The aim or goal [of American education] should be as remote as possible, consistently with its being not so far off that thought of it can be postponed for the present." Said Columbia's Butler: "If parents are to turn over the entire training of their children to school teachers and to abdicate their own just authority and responsibility, we are faced with a situation which, to speak mildly, is alarming. . . . Personally, I am an incorrigible optimist...
...success. Nowhere else did Tschalkowsky so overwhelmingly give forth the somber Russion feeling, and at the same time express the sadness of the world. The work is pregnant with the gloom of Schopenhauer and the whole nineteenth century on the Continent; but its mood is one that seizes the present too, and shouts the futility of human striving. There are few works in music more universally moving...
...Reverend Frederick May Eliot, Minister of Unity Church, St. Paul Minnesota, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning, and will be present throughout the week...