Word: action
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cardinal O'Connell's action in the matter was explained as follows: "By church precedent the duty of a Bishop at such times of spontaneous manifestations of faith is to stand aloof, whatever might be his personal opinions, and to give no evidence of approval until such time as events make it clear that the hand of God is at work...
...Dewey?Minton, Balch ($4.00). John Dewey, philosopher's philosopher, educator's educator, has played a role in U. S. life not small but not popular.* In his latest book Dr. Dewey returns to one of his favorite attacks on a stubborn position: the problem of getting philosophical knowledge into action. Academic as Dr. Dewey may appear to the layman, he has ever had little use for a fugitive and cloistered learning that never sallies out and seeks its adversary: Life. Experimental knowledge, says he, is the most authentic, the only kind actually worth much. "Knowledge which is merely a reduplication...
Five Harvard graduates, former football stars of the Crimson, were seen in action yesterday in the traditional Thanksgiving Day battle between the service rivals, Battery A and First Corps Cadets, a game which ended in a scoreless...
Playing for the Cadets were C.D. Coady '28, J.P. Crosby '28, and J.L. Combs '26; in the Battery A loneup R.F. Cordingley '25 and C.H. Bradford '26 saw action. Martial strains from competing bands added to the excitement of the traditional contest, which was attended by large representations from both camps...
...country and won blues everywhere except in Chicago, where she was sick. Robert Moreland, famed Kentucky horse-trader, bred her. Mr. & Mrs. Harold Palmer of Grosse Point, Mich., own her. One James Thompson rode her, sitting back in the Kentucky style to accentuate the machine-like rhythm of her action. She won the most important class for saddle horses...