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...Gentle, affable, pink-eyebrowed Oswald Veblen (nephew of the late great economist-sociologist Thorstein Bunde Veblen) is doing a war job for the Government, having temporarily ceased working on spinors. Asked for a simple, lay definition of spinors, the mathematician shrugged and smiled. He has left behind topology, which he defines simply as "the theory of the properties of a body which are unchanged when you make any continuous deformation...
Post-war liberals will find in Harold Rugg's awakening a nostalgic flavor. Greenwich Village, Walter Lippmann's New Republic and Sinclair Lewis were in their heyday, corsets were coming off and speakeasies coming in. Rugg discovered Isadora Duncan, the Fabian Society, John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, the "new historians," notably Charles A. Beard. Aroused by such "frontier thinkers," Rugg decided that education needed frontier thinking too, helped launch the famed Teachers College group. For some ten years this group-Professors Rugg, William H. Kilpatrick, George S. Counts, Jesse H. NewIon, Goodwin Watson, et al.-held bimonthly discussions...
...training are necessary to steer this country, domestically and in its foreign relationships, to safe harbors"). At that time, despite his long belief in internationalism, his hatred of fascism, he believed the U. S. should give up thought of open aid to Britain and France. Later he read Thorstein Veblen's The Nature of Peace and Imperial Germany, and changed to a policy of all aid short of war. Stubborn, slow to make up his mind, he drives hard once it is made...
...Beard resigned from Columbia in protest against the dismissal of two fellow professors for opposing U. S. entry into the War (Beard himself supported the War), later joined John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, James Harvey Robinson in founding The New School for Social Research, for four years headed the New York Bureau of Municipal Research. A belligerent champion of civil liberties and academic freedom, Beard was a scorching critic of post-War red-hunting. When, in 1933, Missouri Pacific Railroad went bankrupt, Beard, a small bondholder, heard that the House of Morgan was withholding interest pending a court order. "Preposterous," Beard...
Some days ago The Harvard Progressive published the second of two articles by "Karblen Bunde" (Karl Marx, Thorstein Bunde Veblen) in criticism of the teaching of specified undergraduate courses in economics...