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John Dewey, shy, sage Grand Old Man of U.S. philosophy, father of progressive education, quietly celebrated his 85th birthday in his Manhattan home, calmly reaffirmed his belief in education through scientific inquiry. Professor Dewey, who raised all of his six children by progressive methods, then recalled that one day his five-year-old son had turned on a kitchen faucet, could not turn it off, flooded the room, ran into his father's study and shouted: "Don't say a word, John; get the mop." Professor Dewey smilingly remembered that...
...dull for English teachers, and if you don't believe it, consider, one Freshman instructor's collection of such sage observations as one rookie's "facts is what compromises a law book," and another's eloquent assertion in his English A theme that "the greatest contentment a young doctor can have is to give birth to his first baby...
Britain's sage Manchester Guardian commented: "The fuss in the U.S. is a warning to everybody that a great many Americans will not be in a rational or reasonable state of mind until the November election is over-if even then. Had an American public figure been credited with unfortunate remarks of the same order about ourselves, his explanation would have been quickly accepted. They order things differently in the U.S. . . . It does make life a trifle difficult, especially in an election year...
Winston Churchill, lately a leading player of Big-Power politics, had cannily declined to commit himself. Publicly, he had neither qualified nor abandoned Britain's belief that she must have the Commonwealth & Empire behind her in order to remain a Great Power. His sage old friend, South Africa's Jan Christian Smuts, came out last year for the strongest possible Commonwealth bloc, as a friendly offset to the U.S. and to "the new colossus," Russia. Last week Smuts kept his counsel about Commonwealth centralization. But when the news of a League plan leaked out, with it came...
...that time he might have gone back to turbulent, troublesome India as Viceroy. Sage old Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, scotched that idea after Britain's Cabinet had all but agreed on the appointment. Said he: "You can't do without him here...