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...gift (and which John D. had originally thought of as just a good Baptist college) became a first-rank university almost at birth. As its grey, Gothic-style buildings sprang up on Chicago's dreary South Side, notable minds had nocked to it: Philosopher John Dewey, Economist Thorstein Veblen, Archeologist James Henry Breasted. It was a place of exciting research, fired by the spirit of scientific inquiry and by the yeasty pragmatism of John Dewey. "The result is wonderful," exclaimed William James in 1903. "A real school and real thought. Here [at Harvard] we have thought, but no school...
...join except the Socialist Party. He was a leader of such starry-eyed, leftish setups as the League for Industrial Democracy and the League of American Writers. For one year he was editor of the Dial, a famed fortnightly magazine whose staff included Philosopher John Dewey and Economist Thorstein Veblen; later he spent eight years as an active editor of the New Republic when that magazine was a small, bright influence guided by the liberal idealism of Herbert Croly...
Yesterday's harried "freethinkers" produced a flood of radical literature, most of which is now as dull and dead as the social grievances it attacked. Of the countless contributors to this literature, Thorstein Veblen is one of the very few who does not give the impression of being just a cut off the old red jelly...
Every afternoon, the members emerge from their separate dens for tea and talk. Among them: Albert Einstein, crack Mathematician Oswald Veblen (nephew of famed Economist Thorstein Veblen) and the institute's new boss, Physicist J. Robert ("Oppy") Oppenheimer...
...began in a musty Victorian house in Manhattan's Chelsea 'district. But there was nothing else musty about the New School for Social Research. Among its founders in 1919 were four intellectual mavericks: Historians Charles A. Beard and James Harvey Robinson, Philosopher John Dewey and Economist Thorstein Veblen. The New School was for adults who had learned the wrong things in college, or not enough, or had never been there...