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Arrived at Assen the troops rushed for their foamy "marching draught." All too soon this cooling ration disappeared. Unappeased, the men called for more beer. Their officers, frugal, meticulous, refused to sanction further beerbibbing...
...This was, of course, a recess appointment. Two other members of the Commission serving under the same sanction are Sherman J. Lowell, Fredonia, N. Y. and Edgar B. Brossard of Utah, who do not draw pay because they are unconfirmed by Congress. Mr. Glassie, however, will be salaried because of his appointment when Congress is not in session...
William James (1842-1910) met the needs of his countrymen by assessing metaphysics at its "cash value" for the man in the street and by supplying a philosophic sanction for meetinghouse theology. His "pragmatism" turned the face of thought from considering the quiddities of scholasticism and the post-mortems of Evolution to the future, to "practical results." He talked about the "multiverse" instead of the universe, as being more flattering to individuals, who might then consider themselves important, active parts. John Dewey (1859-) of Columbia University has had a broader acquaintance with his countrymen than James and is freer...
...Does anyone suppose a backer who has only to telephone a wager with the full sanction of the law to his credit bookmaker, will, for the sake of avoiding a shortening of the odds equal to a shilling in the pound, wander around in the districts of some manufacturing town looking for a mysterious individual into whose hands he might surreptitiously slip half a crown...
...popular government is to remain effective. The giving of political privilege to the educationally and hence politically incompetent has made a farce of Democracy in Italy, Spain, and Russia, and all but destroyed it in those countries. The need for good government in Democratic nations is thus a sanction for universal education and, conversely, the success of democratic government in the more literate countries suggests that the educative efforts have not been entirely amiss...