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...most authentic, the only kind actually worth much. "Knowledge which is merely a reduplication in ideas of what exists already in the world may afford us the satisfaction of a photograph, but that is all." The vital office of philosophy today, says philosopher-educating Dewey, is "to search out . . . the obstructions" in life; to focus reflection upon needs congruous to present life; to interpret the conclusions of science with respect to their consequences for our beliefs about purposes and values in all phases of life...
Said he: "We ask from you courage and wisdom, united with enthusiasm for scholarship. We ask for zeal in the search for truth. . . . We ask for inspiration of our young men and young women. . . . for broad sympathy, high perspective on the values of human life, and helpfulness in the problems of our civilization...
...expect nothing, he reasons, from a man of 50. The cryptogams of The Way of Ecben tell the same old Cabell story of man's vain pursuit of gay illusions. King Alfgar dreams of a witch. He sacrifices his kingdom to wander up and down the land in search of her, in which occupation he grows old. In the end he marries the witch, is rejuvenated, dies. To his publisher Robert M. McBride. Mr. Cabell dedicates "this brief and somewhat tragic tale, to commemorate our long and rather comical association...
...appropriation was made in 1855, and in that year a ship was outfitted for the voyage and sent in search of camels. Ten were purchased on this trip, three in Tunis and seven in Smyrna, and duly brought back to serve as pack animals in the American Desert...
...Methods. Not covertly were the investigations conducted. With willing cooperation from college authorities, the investigators quizzed undergraduates, teachers, athletic officials. They opened files, read countless letters from preparatory school stalwarts who wished to be paid for college competition. Only at Oglethorpe University, where permission to search records and interview students and professors was refused, and the University of Georgia, where one official failed to send promised data, were there obstructions...