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...John Dewey, professor of Philosophy at Columbia and incumbent of the new William James Lectureship for the second half of the present academic year, will give the first of a series of ten public lectures on "Art and the Aesthetic Experience", at 4 o'clock this afternoon in Emerson...
Professor Dewey, one of the outstanding contemporary thinkers of the world, is a resident here for this semester and has been selected to give the Inglis lecture for 1931, at 8 o'clock on Wednesday March 11 in Emerson D. He has announced that the subject for the lecture will be "Educational Confusion and Conflict". The Inglis Lectureship, which was founded in honor of the late Professor Alexander Inglis by the Graduate School of Education, is filled annually by prominent educators and treats of secondary education in general...
...Chase, Guaranty Trust and National City, surpass it in resources). The president of this 86-year-old corporation is a person of importance. When he goes in to his directors (on the second Wednesday of the month) there are among others present the Republican boss of New York (Charles Dewey Hilles), the chairman of a great railroad (Hale Holden), the chairman of the largest bank in Chicago (George McClelland Reynolds), the president of the largest university in the U. S. (Nicholas Murray Butler), a onetime president of the U. S. itself...
Professor John Dewey, of Columbia University, incumbent of the new William James lectureship for the second half of the present academic year, has revealed his subject for the Inglis Lecture, which he has been invited to give for the year...
...revived discussion of the liberal arts college is reflected in the news by the Rollins Conference, of which Professor John Dewey is chairman, and an attack on the part of the General Secretary, International Student Service, on University indifference, social isolation, and exaggerated specialization. In both cases the purpose of the college is outlined in the latest educational phraseology and in both cases education is extended beyond a four year assimilation of facts into a relationship with world history and "social harmony." In both is found regret that the University has so little effect on world events and thought...