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Married. Dr. Melvil Dewey, founder-President of the Lake Placid Club, and Mrs. Emily McKay Beal, manager-Vice President of the same club; at Lake Placid...
...discussion of liberal speakers and the Union is sufficiently recent to make the comments of Professor John Dewey on "The Liberal College and its Enemies" both interesting and instructive. There is perhaps little reason to quarrel with his analysis that "subservience, timidity, and illiberality in the American college" are caused in the first place by the peculiarly inimate relations between public opinion and schools for higher education at the time of their origin and at present, and in the second by the "uncertain state of the sciences or inquiries that deal with social matters." Yet the solution he offers...
...hope and dependence of the liberal college, says Professor Dewey, "lie in the growth of the free mind and the perfecting of standards of thought and inquiry." It is doubtless toward this goal that the present tendencies are merging--for Professor Dewey himself declares that much progress has been made in the last quarter of a century. Yet rather than wait for the slow if inevitable triumph of liberalism and its methods over conservative reactionaries it is conceivably possible to aid its progress by attacking those causes of illiberalism which have been identified...
Another of these books, the "Relativ Frequency of English Speech Sounds" by Godfrey Dewey '09 gives data of indispensable importance for the foundation of any scientific study of shorthand problems. The text is written in "simplified" spelling as can be seen from the title. In commenting upon this book Mr. D. L. Pottinger '06 of the University Press said, "The facts brought out in this book recall to me the New York Times affair of last fall. The Times, for some unknown reason, asked various professors of Princeton and Yale what were the most important words in the English language...
...scenes, vividly pictured, and joined together by a thin thread of actual plot. The beauty of the photography and the turbulence of the action carry it through. George III is pictured as the king "who ever warred with freedom and the free," George Washington is remarkably acted by Arthur Dewey without undue exaggeration; and Samuel Adams and John Hancock are brought forth as the guiding spirits of the Northern Colonies. Paul Revere's ride and the Battle of Lexington are as vivid as screen art can make them. And finally, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the winter spent...