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...private school, says John Dewey, may exist for such special training as it pleases, but the public school must serve the purpose of the community as a whole. Hence it must teach " those subjects which are found to be, first, necessary, and, secondly, highly useful in serving this purpose of developing good citizenship, industrial and political, for leisure as well as for work, good members of the family and the neighborhood as well as of the political state and the workshop and farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cui Bono? | 3/31/1923 | See Source »

Anent President McKinley: "I visited the President a few days after the victory. McKinley said: 'When we received the cable from Admiral Dewey telling of the taking of the Philippines I looked up their location on the globe. I could not have told where those darned islands were within 2,000 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Extracts from Kohlsaat | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

...glance back to the events that have occurred within less than a quarter of a century will prove this. When the war with Spain came we had not real auxiliary support for the navy. In order to carry his fuel and other supplies into Manila Bay, Admiral Dewey was compelled to hire British vessels. He chartered the Nanshan and the Zafiro, two British colliers, for that purpose. Suppose Great Britain had then been at war? It just so happened that these vessels were available in Pacific waters. And what was the situation on the Atlantic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MERCHANT MARINE NEEDED FOR NATIONAL DEFENCE | 1/23/1923 | See Source »

...this evening, including substitutes, will be as follows: Phillip Franklin, instructor in Mathematics, A. H. King '24, W. T. Pattison '25, R. E. Spaulding '26, Adrien Gambet '25, H. A. McCushin '25, F. A. Mulloney '25, K. P. Smith Jr. '25, I. C. Foss '26, substitute, and G. T. Dewey 1L., substitute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHESS TEAM TO MEET LOCAL CLUB | 12/22/1922 | See Source »

...University team, which consists of four regular players and two substitutes, will be made up as follows: A. H. King '24, W. J. Pattison '25, R. C. Spaulding '26, Adrien Gambet '25, K. P. Smith '25, and Godfrey Dewey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To Hold Chess Tourney in Brooklyn | 12/20/1922 | See Source »

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