Vita di J. Dewey
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Chronology of John Dewey'sLife and Work
The Center for Dewey Studies, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

1902 Editor, Elementary School Review


1902 "Discussion of 'What Our Schools Owe to Child Study'" published [MW2]


1902 Contributions to Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology published [MW2]


1902 "Clarence J. Selby" published [LW17]


1902.01.19-26? In New York at Ethical Culture School, Teachers College, Pratt Institute [1902.01.17 (00767)]


1902.01.** "Academic Freedom" published [MW2]


1902.02.27 Attends open meeting of National Society for the Scientific Study of Education, Lecture Hall, Fine Arts Building, Chicago [Second Yearbook of the National Society for the Scientific Study of Education 2 (1903): 52-53]


1902.03.06 Addresses memorial service for F. W. Parker


1902.03.18 Speaks at Cornell, "The Significance of Change," Barnes Hall [1902.03.07 (07299); Cornell Daily Sun, 18 March 1902]


1902.03.25 In New York [1902.03.25 (00826)]


1902.03.27 Speaks in Brooklyn [1902.03.25 (00826)]


1902.03.27 "In Remembrance: Francis W. Parker" published [MW2]


1902.03.31-04.01 Attends American Philosophical Association meeting, Columbia University, New York [1902.03.25 (00826)]


1902.03.** "The Evolutionary Method as Applied to Morality" published [MW2]


1902.04.01 Director of the School of Education [General Register (Univ. of Chicago) of the Officers and Alumni, 1892-1902, 11]


1902.05.20 Officially appointed director of School of Education and Head of the Department of Philosophy [1902.05.20 (10287); University Record, May 1902, 3; ibid., June 1902, 42, 45]


1902.05.** "Interpretation of Savage Mind" published [MW2]


1902.05.** Review of Lightner Witmer's Analytical Psychology published [MW2]


1902.06.** "In Memoriam: Colonel Francis Wayland Parker" published [MW2]


1902.06.29 At Hull-House in evening [1902.06.30 (11769)]


1902.07.02 Expected at Hull-House for lunch [1902.06.30 (11769)]


1902.07.** Addresses National Educational Association, National Council of Education, Minneapolis, "The School as Social Centre"


1902.07.** In Nashua, NY [1902.07.15? (01532)]


1902.07.** Review of Josiah Royce's The World and the Individual published [MW2]


1902.07? "The School as Social Centre" published [MW2]


1902.08.04-09.30 In Essex County, NY [1902.09.24 (01570)]


1902.10.27 Conference, representatives of Secondary School and Chicago Manual Training School


1902.10 "The University of Chicago School of Education" published [MW2]


1902.11 "The University of Chicago School of Education" editorial published [MW2]


1902.11.28-29 "I am going off to lecture" [1902.11.25 (01625)]


1902.12.01 Interview with W. R. Harper re School of Education [1902.11.25 (01625)]


1902.12.04 Appointed to Committee on Amelioration of Our Spelling, Illinois State Teachersí Association [Journal of Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Illinois State Teachersí Association and Sections, Springfield, IL, 29-31 December, 8]

1902.12.29-1903.01.06 Washington, DC, New Riggs House [1902.12.29 (01646)]


1902.12.30-1903.01. Addresses joint meeting of American Philosophical and American Psychological Associations, Washington, DC, "Psychological Method in Ethics"


1903 American Psychological Association Council, term expiring 1903


1903 Studies in Logical Theory published [MW2]


1903 "Logical Conditions of a Scientific Treatment of Morality" published [MW3]


1903 "Religious Education as Conditioned by Modern Psychology and Pedagogy" published [MW3]


1903 Introduction to Irving W. King's The Psychology of Child Development published [MW3]


1903.01.06-14 Teachers College, Columbia University, NY [1902.12.29 (01646)]


1903.01.** "Remarks on 'Shortening the Years of Elementary Schooling'" published [MW3]


1903.02.10 Addresses Religious Education Association, "As Conditioned by the Principles of Modern Psychology and Pedagogy"


1903.03.** "Psychological Method in Ethics" published [MW3]


1903.03.12 Invited to lunch with W. S. Jackman [1903.03.11 (01676)]


1903.04.** "The Psychological and the Logical in Teaching Geometry" published [MW3]


1903.04.14 Resigns from Hull-House Board of Trustees; elected to serve on Advisory Council for one year [Minutes of Hull-House, 14 April 1903; UI-Jane Addams Memorial Collection]


1903.05.25 Paper read at Emerson Memorial Meeting, University of Chicago, "Emerson--The Philosopher of Democracy"


1903.05.** "The Organization and Curricula of the [University of Chicago] College of Education" published [MW3]


1903.05.** "The School of Education" published [MW3]


1903.05.** "Method of the Recitation" published [MW3]


1903.06-? Leave of absence, Summer Quarter [University Record, September 1903, 138]


1903.06.17-07.24 In Hurricane (East Hill), NY [1903.03.15? (00797); 1903.06.16 (00982); 1903.06.25 (00835)]


1903.06.** Review of Katharine Elizabeth Dopp's The Place of Industries in Elementary Education published [MW3]


1903.07.03 Leaves for National Education Association meeting, Boston


1903.07.07 Paper at National Education Association [1903.07.03 (01739)]


1903.07.11 Returns to New York [1903.07.03 (01739)]


1903.07.15 In Glenmore, "began to lecture on July 15th" [1903.07.30 (09502)]


1903.07.** "Emerson--The Philosopher of Democracy" published [MW3]


1903.07.29? Returns from "vacation in the Adirondack Mountains" [1903.08.08 (00833)]


1903.08.28 "The St. Louis Congress of the Arts and Sciences" published [MW3]


1903.09.** In Hurricane, NY [1903.09.24 (01759)]


1903.10.20 "Rejoinder to M¸nsterberg" published [MW3]


1903.11.21 Lunches with William Torrey Harris and attends cornerstone-laying ceremony of the Chicago Teachersí College in Englewood [1903.11.18 (01860)]


1903.11.28 Addresses Central Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers, "Disciplinary Value of Science Teaching," Chicago [University Record, January 1904, 296]


1903.12.** Addresses American Psychological Association, "The Psychology of Judgment," St. Louis [University Record, January 1904, 290]


1903.12.20 Addresses Ethical Culture Society meeting [1903.12.23 (01021)]


1903.12.** "Democracy in Education" published [MW3]


1903-1905 Chairman of National Society of College Teachers of Education

1904 "Ethics" published [MW3]


1904 "The Relation of Theory to Practice in Education" published [MW3]


1904.01.07 Addresses Sociology Club, memorial for Herbert Spencer, "Spencer's Contribution to Philosophy" [University Record, January 1904, 292]


1904.01.** Addresses Francis W. Parker School, Chicago, "Education, Direct and Indirect" [MW3]


1904.01? "Education, Direct and Indirect" published [MW3]


1904.01.28 Paper read at School of Education Parents' Association, Chicago, "Significance of the School of Education"


1904.02.12 Addresses centenary of death of Kant, Haskell Assembly Room [University Record, February 1904, 343]


1904.02.22 Discussion of "The Relation of Theory to Practice in Education," National Society for the Scientific Study of Education meeting, Convention Hall, Piedmont Hotel, Atlanta, GA [Third Yearbook of the National Society for the Scientific Study of Education 3 (1904): 97]


1904.02.24 Reelected member of Society of College Teachers of Education executive committee


1904.02,03.** "Notes upon Logical Topics," parts 1 and 2, published [MW3]


1904.03.** Lectures (3) at Brooklyn Institute on "Moral Education" [University Record, June 1904, 92]


1904.03.** "The Philosophical Work of Herbert Spencer" published [MW3]


1904.03.** "Significance of the School of Education" published [MW3]


1904.03.11-29 Lectures (6) at Columbia University on "Problems of Knowledge," 11, 15, 18, 22, 25, 29 March [1904.03.03 (00917); University Record, June 1904, 92]


1904.03.16-17 In Boston and New Haven [1904.03.14 (00943)]


1904.04.01? Returns to Chicago [1904.03.26 (00944)]


1904.04.05 ACD resigns as principal of University Elementary School, effective 1 October 1904 [1904.04.05 (00931)]


1904.04.05 Resigns from University of Chicago, effective 1 July 1904 [1904.04.06 (00954); 1904.04.11 (00956); University Record, May 1904, 35]


1904.04.28 Unofficially accepts Columbia University offer [1904.04.28 (00937)]


1904.04.** Review of W. R. Benedict's World Views and Their Ethical Implications published [MW3]


1904.05.02 Resignations of JD and ACD submitted to and accepted by Board of Trustees [1904.05.02 (01462)]


1904.05.02 Officially offered appointment as Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, salary of $5,000, beginning 1 February 1905 [1904.05.02 (01891)]


1904.05.09 Formally accepts appointment at Columbia University [1904.05.09 (01894)]


1904.05.14 Participates in conferences celebrating dedication of buildings of University of Chicago School of Education [University Record, May 1904, 26; 1904.05.03 (01182)]


1904.05.24 Accepts appointment to Lectureship in Psychology at Columbia University, beginning January to 30 June 1905 [1904.05.24 (01896)]


1904.05.** "Introduction of the Orator" published [MW3]


1904.06.09 Doctor of Laws, LL.D., University of Wisconsin [University Record, June 1904, 80; Chicago Daily Tribune, 10 June 1904, 4; 1904.02.29 (00915)]


1904.06.10 Addresses Class Day exercises at the School of Education, Emmons Blaine Hall [University Record, June 1904, 80]


1904.06.10 Banquet for Deweys [1904.06.06 (01184); 1904.06.07 (00185); 1904.06.08 (01188)]


1904.06.12 Expected at Hull-House in evening [1904.06.03 (11770)]


1904.06.13 Addresses kindergarten commencement, Oberlin [Oberlin Review, 16 June 1904, 750]


1904.06.17 Calls on Anita McCormick Blaine [1904.06.16 (00974)]


1904.06.28 ACD and children leave Chicago for Adirondack cottage [1904.06.28 (01002)]


1904.06.28-07.06 Lectures at Summer School of the South (Knoxville, TN) [1904.06.28 (01002); 1904.07.01 (01195); 1904.07.01 (01198); University of Tennessee Record 7 (1904): 38]


1904.07.06? Leaves for Montreal [1904.07.01 (01198)]


1904.07.09 Family trip to Europe, leaves Montreal on S. S. Kensington [1904.07.09-1904.09.04 (01875)]


1904.07.21 Arrives in Liverpool [1904.07.09-1904.09.04 (01875)]


1904.07.** Staying in Chester, England [1904.07.09-1904.09.04 (01875)]


1904.07.** Son Gordon diagnosed with typhoid [1904.07.09-09.04 (01875)]


1904.07.22-08.17 Gordon in Liverpool hospital [1904.08.17 (01245)]


1904.07.30 Moves from Chester to Liverpool [1904.07.29 (01217); 1904.07.30 (01214)]


1904.08.22 Gordon expects to leave Liverpool for Ireland [1904.08.20 (01264)]


1904.08.30 Gordon in hospital in Ballinasloe [1904.09.01 (01273)]


1904.09.10 or 11 Gordon dies in Ireland


1904.09.15 Review of F. C. S. Schiller's Humanism published [MW3]


1904.10.01 Memorial service for Gordon, Hull-House Theatre


1904.10.** In Grenoble [1904.10.31 (00909)]


1904.10.24? Roberta Lowitz born, Oil City, PA


1904.11.21 "Staying in Grenoble for a few weeks"; "leave next week for a brief stay in Italy" [1904.11.21 (00902)]


1904.12.01? In Marseilles [1904.12.02 (01285)]


1904.12.02 In Cannes [1904.12.02 (01285)]


1905 "Philosophy and American National Life" published [MW3]


1905.01.02 In Rome [1905.01.02 (01827)]


1905.01.** Leaves family in Europe; travels to Columbia University


1905.02.01 Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University [A History of the Faculty of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1957]


1905.02.09 Dinner with Samuel Train Dutton [1905.02.10 (01453)]


1905.02.10 Dinner with the James Harvey Robinsons [1905.02.10 (01453)]


1905.03.13-05.08 Public lectures, "Some Problems in the Psychology of Conduct," "Psychology and the Self," 13 March [Columbia Spectator, 21 February 1905, 2]; "Prof. Dewey Lectures on Psychology," 20 March [Columbia Spectator, 21 March 1905, 2]; "'Emotions in Conduct' Discussed," 27 March [Columbia Spectator, 28 March 1905, 3]; "Lecture on Ideals by Prof. Dewey," 1 May [Columbia Spectator, 2 May 1905, 3]; "Psychology Lecture on 'Obligation,'" 8 May [Columbia Spectator, 9 May 1905, 2; 01457 indicates more lectures]


1905.05.07? Lectures at Harvard, "Knowledge and Action" [Columbia Spectator, 8 May 1905, 1]

1905.05.26 Delivers commencement address to Ethical Culture Society[?] [1905.05.21 (01015)]


1905.05.27 Sails for Europe on Kroonland to Antwerp and to rejoin family [1905.04.26 (01449)]


1905.06.06 Expects to arrive in Antwerp [1905.04-05.** (12502)]


1905.06.08 "The Realism of Pragmatism" published [MW3]


1905.06-07.** In Venice, plans to leave 1 July [1905.06.29 (01445)]


1905.07.20 "The Postulate of Immediate Empiricism" published [MW3]


1905.09.** Adopts Sabino


1905.10.04 At 505 W. 122nd St., New York [1905.10.04 (01016)]


1905.10.26 "Immediate Empiricism" published [MW3]


1905.10.** Moves to 431 Riverside Dr., New York [1905.09.** (04549)]


1905.11.23 "The Knowledge Experience and Its Relationships" published [MW3]


1905.12.21 "The Knowledge Experience Again" published [MW3]


1905.12.27 Chairs joint discussion of American Psychological Association and American Philosophical Association on "The Affiliation of Psychology with Philosophy and with the Natural Sciences" [Psychological Bulletin 3 (15 February 1906): 37]


1905.12.27-29 Attends American Philosophical Association meetings, Harvard, Emerson Hall


1905.12.28 Chairs business meeting of American Philosophical Association, Cambridge [Philosophical Review 15 (March 1906): 157]


1905.12.28 Presidential Address to American Philosophical Association, "Beliefs and Realities," Cambridge [1905.12.** (01435); Philosophical Review 15 (March 1906): 157]


1905-1906 President, American Philosophical Association


1906 Addresses Horace Mann School, Teachers College, art and manual training teachers, "Culture and Industry in Education"


1906.01.18 "The Terms 'Conscious' and 'Consciousness'" published [MW3]


1906.02.09 Review of George Santayana's Life of Reason published [MW3]


1906.02-03.** Addresses Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, "Contemporary Ethical Problems," six Sundays [Dykhuizen, 147, 362]


1906.02.21 Offered tickets to reading by Dr. Fulda at Waldorf-Astoria [1906.02.10 (02496)]


1906.03.** "Beliefs and Realities" published ["Beliefs and Existences," MW3]


1906.03.14 Addresses Teachers College, Teachers College Chapel, "Self-Activity in Education" [Columbia Spectator, 14 March 1906, 1, 2; ibid., 15 March 1906, 2]


1906.03.31 Addresses Michigan Schoolmasters' Club, Ann Arbor, "Self-Activity in Education: Its Conditions and Obstacles" [Columbia University Quarterly 8 (1905-6): 307]


1906.04.08 Dinner with David Starr Jordan at Hotel Holland, New York [1906.03.19 (02502); 1906.04.07 (02504)]


1906.05.10 "Reality as Experience" published [MW3]


1906.05.26 Dinner with Mrs. Webster [1906.05.26 (01904)]


1906.05.29 Offered job to direct correspondence work in history and theory of education [1906.05.29 (01906)]


1906.05.31 Paper for Eastern Art Teachers Association and the Eastern Manual Training Association, "Culture and Industry in Education" [1906.05.31 (01907)]


1906.06.01 Calls on the Cushmans [1906.06.01 (01909)]


1906.06.02 Dinner with Cushmans and Miss Fulmer [1906.06.01 (01909)]


1906.06.04 Takes train to mountains? [1906.05.31 (01907)]


1906.06.06 In Hurricane [1906.06.06 (02508)]


1906.06.26-30 Lectures at Michigan State Normal College [1906.06.06 (02508)]


1906.06? "Culture and Industry in Education" published [MW3]


1906.07.** "The Experimental Theory of Knowledge" published [MW3]


1906.08.28 Still in Hurricane [1906.08.28 (09534)]


1906.09.** Attends Philosophical Club dinner [1906.09.21? (01915)]


1906.09.** "Experience and Objective Idealism" published [MW3]

1906.09.27 Calls on Robinsons [1906.09.27 (01920)]


1906.10.19 Dines with Montagues [1906.10.20 (01916)]


1906.10.20 Goes to Hastings with Evelyn [1906.10.20 (01916); 1906.10.22 (01918)]


1906.10.21 Supper with Montagues at Pabsts' [1906.10.22 (01918)]


1906.10.22-1907.01.21 Addresses Normal Department of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, six lectures, "Philosophy of Education" (Aims in Education, The School as an Institution, The Philosophy of the Curriculum, The Curriculumís Various Branches, Types and Methods of Teaching and Discipline); 22 October 1906, 5 November 1906, 19 November 1906, 17 December 1906, 7 January 1907, 21 January 1907 [Dykhuizen, 147, 362; Columbia University Quarterly 9 (1906-7): 382; 1906.10.29 (01917); 1906.10.29 (01981); Pratt Institute Studentsí Bulletin 6 (19 October 1906)]


1906.10.23 "Expect to get to Englewood" [1906.10.22 (01918)]


1906.11.** Lucy and Jane enter Ethical Culture School


1906.11.07 Speaks on "The Study of Philosophy," probably at Barnard College [1906.11.02 (02587)]


1906.11-1907.01 Lectures on Greek philosophy to graduate students at Johns Hopkins University [Dykhuizen, 148, 362; Columbia University Quarterly 9 (1905-7): 382; 1906.10.29 (01917)]


1906.11.**? Moves to 325 W. 56th St., New York


1907.01.31 At Harvard Faculty Club for dinner and discussion [1907.02.01 (09535)]


1907.03.** Review of A. Sidgwick's and Eleanor M. Sidgwick's Henry Sidgwick published [MW4]


1907.04? Lectures at New York Academy of Sciences, "Knowledge and Judgment" [Columbia University Quarterly 9 (June 1907): 382]


1907.04.11 "The Control of Ideas by Facts. I" published [MW4]


1907.04.12 Sees play with Evelyn, Brewster's Millions [1907.04.13? (01939)]


1907.04.13 Attends City Club dinner meeting [1907.04.13? (01939)]


1907.04.16? Discussion about superintendency of Chicago schools [1906.04.16? (01945)]


1907.04.16? Dinner at Bushes', attends lecture by Professor Watson at Brooklyn Institute [1907.04.16? (01945)]


1907.04.20? Attends Goldoni play with Evelyn [1907.04.21? (01948)]


1907.04.22? Davis Rich Dewey visits [1907.04.22? (01949)]


1907.04.25 Plans to leave with Evelyn for Hurricane [1907.04.22? (01949)]


1907.05.** Review of Studies in Philosophy and Psychology published [MW4]


1907.05.09 "The Control of Ideas by Facts. II" published [MW4]


1907.06.** "Education as a University Study" published [MW4]


1907.06.06 "The Control of Ideas by Facts. III" published [MW4]


1907.07.** "The Intellectualist Criterion for Truth" published [MW4]


1907.07.** "Pure Experience and Reality: A Disclaimer" published [MW4]


1907.07? "Going to summer in the Catskills--at Byrdcliffe," Woodstock, NY [1907.05.28 (03705)]


1907.07.08-26? At Byrdcliffe, NY, and Hyannis, MA; visiting professor at Hyannis Normal School for three-week session [1907.07.11 (02472)]


1907.09.** Review of George Santayana's The Life of Reason published [MW4]


1907.10.** Celebrates birthday with Woodbridges in Peekskill, NY [1929.10.19 (06270)]


1907.10.17 "Moving & settling &c for the last 10 days," from 325 W. 56th St. to 1700 Broadway [1907.10.17 (02510)]


1907.10.21 Participates in discussion of relation of metaphysics to ethics, Philosophical Club [Columbia Spectator, 21 October 1907, 3]


1907.11.19 Receives tickets for "the important meeting . . . at Carnegie Hall" from Nicholas Murray Butler [1907.11.15 (02497)]


1907.11.26 Nominated by William James for membership in the National Academy of Sciences [1907.12.02 (09163)]


1907.12.06 Lectures on Ibsen and His Cult at St. Thomas College (later, University of Scranton), Scranton, PA. Second Presbyterian Church, under auspices of College Club [Scranton Republican, 7 December 1907; 1907.11.22 (02588)]


1907.12.08 Lectures at College Club, Wilkesbarre, "Ibsen as Critic of the Ethics of Contemporary Science" [Columbia University Quarterly 10 (June 1908): 388]


1907.12.09 Lectures at University of Illinois School of Education on "The Relation of Philosophy to Educational Theory: 'Chief Places of Contact between Philosophical and Educational Problems,' 'The Individual and the Universal, or Social,' 'The Relation of the Individual to Society as Conceived in Modern Educational Practice,' 'Culture versus Nature in Education'" [Psychological Bulletin 4 (15 December 1907): 401; Columbia University Quarterly 10 (June 1908): 388; 1907.11.22 (02588)]


1907.12.15 "Stay[s] over Sunday with you [Meads]" [1907.11.22 (02588)]


1907-1908 Lectures on Pragmatism at Smith College, "Session of 1907-8" [Herbert W. Schneider Papers]


1908 Ethics published [MW5]


1908 "Intelligence and Morals" published [MW4]


1908 "Does Reality Possess Practical Character?" published [MW4]


1908.02.13 "What Pragmatism Means by Practical" published [MW4]


1908.03.24 Lectures at Columbia University, "Ethics," a series on science, philosophy, and art [Columbia Spectator, 26 March 1908, 1]


1908.04.21 Addresses Teachers Convention, Philadelphia, two addresses on "The Psychology of Teaching" [Columbia University Quarterly 10 (June 1908): 388]


1908.04.24? Addresses Philosophic Society, "What Is Philosophy About?" [Columbia Spectator, 24 April 1908, 1]


1908.06?-09.21 Summer in Hurricane, NY [1908.09.14 (02586)]


1908.07.02 "The Logical Character of Ideas" published [MW4]


1908.07.** "Religion and Our Schools" published [MW4]


1908.09.21 Leaves Huntington, NY [1908.09.14 (02586)]


1908.09.22 Reception at Columbia University office [1908.09.14 (02586)]


1908.12.** Addresses New York Philosophical Club, "The Good, Nature and Intelligence: A Conversation"


1908.12.29 "President of the Section" devoted to Bureau of Education, American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, Baltimore [1908.10.13 (02322)]


1908.12-1909.01,02 "The Bearings of Pragmatism upon Education" published [MW4]


1909.01.** Addresses teachers of Indiana and Indiana University [Columbia Spectator, 14 December 1908, 3]


1909.01.07 "Objects, Data, and Existences: A Reply to Professor McGilvary" published [MW4]


1909.01.14 Attends education meeting [1909.01.16 (03272)]


1909.02.18 Addresses Century Club [1909.02.18 (09538)]


1909.02? Addresses Philosophical Club, Smith College, "A Short Catechism concerning Truth"


1909.02? Vice-president, American Association for the Advancement of Science [Dykhuizen, 140]


1909.03.** Public lecture at Columbia University, "Darwin's Influence upon Philosophy" [Columbia Spectator, 27 March 1909, 6]


1909.03.31 Public lecture at Columbia University, Henry Bergh Foundation, "The Ethics of Punishment" [Columbia Spectator, 31 March 1909, 6; ibid., 1 April 1909, 2; 1908.11.05 (02323)]


1909.03.** "Discussion on Realism and Idealism" published [MW4]


1909.03.** "History for the Educator" published [MW4]


1909.03.** "The Purpose and Organization of Physics Teaching in Secondary Schools" published [MW4]


1909.04.14 Lectures at "open meeting of the Philosophical Society [Students' Building, Smith College] on 'The Objections to Pragmatism'", "The Objections to the Pragmatic Theory of Truth" [Scrapbook, Harry Norman Gardiner; Smith College Monthly 16 (May 1909): 543]


1909.04.15 "Discussion on the 'Concept of a Sensation'" published [MW4]


1909.05.31-06.01 Attends conference called by William Walling to consider "uplifting of the negro," Convention Hall of United Charities Building, New York [New York Times, 1 June 1909, 2]


1909.06? "Address to National Negro Conference" published [MW4]


1909.06.** Buys "farm of 9 acres on Long Island at Huntington," "spending most of my time there" [1909.06.13 (02561); 1909.07.07 (02479)]

1909.06.** "Teaching That Does Not Educate" published [MW4]


1909.07.07-08.18 Teaches summer course, "Philosophy & Religion S280" [1910.03.07 (01977)]


1909.07.** "The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy" published [MW4]


1909.07.** "Nature and Its Good: A Conversation" published [MW4]


1909.07.** Review of Albert Schinz's Anti-pragmatisme published [MW4]


1909.07.** Begins as Department of Philosophy chair


1909.08.05 "The Dilemma of the Intellectualist Theory of Truth" published [MW4]


1909.08.25 In Huntington [1909.08.25 (03610)]


1909.09? "The Moral Significance of the Common School Studies" published; written for Northern Illinois Teachersí Association meetings in Elgin, 5-6 November 1909; JD did not attend [MW4]


1909.10.04 Trustees approve JD as administrative head of the Department of Philosophy for two years from 1 July 1909 [1909.10.04 (02342)]


1909.10.15 In Huntington [1909.10.15 (02514)]


1909.10.29 In Huntington [1909.10.29 (05278)]


1909.11.08 Interview with Columbia summer school director, James C. Egbert, Jr., re Tufts's appointment [1909.11.08 (07202)]


1909.12.29 Addresses American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston, "Science as Subject-Matter and as Method"


1909 Moral Principles in Education published [MW4]


1910 How We Think published [MW6]


1910 "A Short Catechism concerning Truth" and "Preface" in The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy published [MW6; LW17]


1910.01.28 "Science as Subject-Matter and as Method" published [MW6]


1910.01.31-02.05 Lectures at Johns Hopkins University, "Aspects of the Pragmatic Movement of Modern Philosophy" [Columbia University Quarterly 12 (June 1910): 351; 1910.02.06 (02482)]

1910.02.05 Returns to New York [1910.02.06 (02482)]


1910.02.07 Addresses General University Chapel Service, "The Life and Ideals of the University" [Columbia Spectator, 2 February 1910, 4; ibid., 7 February 1910, 1]


1910.03.05 Addresses Rhode Island State Normal School, "Present Educational Tendencies" [Columbia University Quarterly 12 (June 1910): 351; Dykhuizen, 148, 363]


1910.03.08 Lectures on Maeterlinck [Columbia Spectator, 18 February 1910, 2; ibid., 8 March 1910, 6; ibid., 9 March 1910, 6; ibid., 14 March 1910, 6; Columbia University Quarterly 12 (June 1910): 351]


1910.03.17 Addresses Philosophical Club, Columbia University, "Some Thoughts concerning Religion" [LW17]


1910.03.31 "Valid Knowledge and the 'Subjectivity of Experience'" published [MW6]


1910.03.** Review of Hugo M¸nsterberg's The Eternal Values published [MW6]


1910.04.01 Addresses Wellesley College, "The Development of Pragmatism" and "The Problem of Truth" [Columbia University Quarterly 12 (June 1910): 351]


1910.04.01 LL.D., University of Vermont [Dykhuizen, 140; Thomas, xiii; 1909.07.03 (02960)]

1910.04.04 Presents M. Emile Boutroux for honorary degree [Columbia University Quarterly 12 (June 1910): 314; 1910.03.24 (02499); 1910.03.29 (02360)]


1910.04.** Elected to National Academy of Sciences [1910.05.06 (02366); Thomas, xii]


1910.06.10 Listed as "general committee member" of NAACP [Du Bois, The Correspondence of W. E. B. Du Bois, 1:169]


1910.09.01 "Some Implications of Anti-Intellectualism" published [MW6]


1910.09.08 "William James" (Independent) published [MW6]


1910.09.15 "William James" (Journal of Philosophy) published [MW6]


1910.09.29 "The Short-Cut to Realism Examined" published [MW6]


1910.11.29 Lunches with Kerschensteiner at Faculty Club [1910.11.23 (03304); 1910.11.27? (03305)]


1910.12.06-09 Addresses University of Pennsylvania on George Leib Harrison Foundation, "The Problem of Truth: 'Why Is Truth a Problem' [6 December], 'Truth and Consequences' or 'Correspondence, Coherence and Co-sequences as Marks of Truth' [8 December], and 'Objective Truths' or 'Truth as Objective'" [9 December] [Old Penn Weekly Review 9 (3 December 1910): 261, 283; ibid. 9 (24 December 1910): 356]


1910.12.** American Philosophical Association meeting at Princeton featuring the "Platform of Six Realists"; JD discusses neo-realism [1911.11.05? (03274)]


1910.12.24 In Huntington [1910.12.24 (02516)]


1910-1923 Summers on Huntington farm


1911 Member, American Philosophical Society [Thomas, xii]


1911 Contributions to A Cyclopedia of Education published [MW6]


1911.01.02 Lucy and Jane leave for boarding school in Chicago [1911.01.01 (01978); 1911.01.01 (01979)]


1911.01.** Lectures at Smith College, six lectures on "Psychology and the Ethics of the Self" [Columbia Spectator, 18 January 1911, 2; Columbia University Quarterly 14 (December 1911): 103]


1911.02.03 "Rejoinder to Dr. Spaulding" published [MW]


1911.02.11 "The Problem of Truth. I" published [MW6]


1911.02.14 Application for leave of absence, second half of academic year 1911-1912, granted [1911.02.14 (02385)]


1911.02.18 "The Problem of Truth. II" published [MW6]


1911.03.04 "The Problem of Truth. III" published [MW6]


1911.04.** Presides at commemoration of 100th birthday of David Hume [Columbia Spectator, 27 April 1911, 7]


1911.06.** "Is Co-Education Injurious to Girls?" published [MW6]


1911.06.** Addresses class-day exercises of Teachers College of George Washington University, Washington, DC [Columbia University Quarterly 14 (11 December 1911): 103]


1911.06.** Delivers commencement address at Walnut Hill School, Cincinnati [Columbia University Quarterly 14 (11 December 1911): 103]


1911.07.20,09.28 "Brief Studies in Realism" published [MW6]


1911.07.** "Maeterlinck's Philosophy of Life" published [MW6]

1911.08.** "The Study of Philosophy" published [MW6]


1911.08.26 In Huntington [1911.08.26 (03673)]


1911.09.25 Returns to Columbia from Huntington for a few days [1911.09.18 (02939)]


1911.10.01 Back in Huntington [1911.10.01 (02940)]


1911.10.05 Addresses Conference on College Requirements and the Secondary Curriculum of the University of Vermont, Burlington, in connection with inaugural exercises of President Benton, "Present Tendencies in College Education"


1911.10.06 Attends inauguration of University of Vermont President Guy Potter Benton [1911.10.03 (02941)]


1911.10.12 "Joint Discussion with Articles of Agreement and Disagreement: Professor Dewey and Dr. Spaulding" published [MW6]


1911.12.07 Arranges meeting with M. Carey Thomas [1911.12.05 (03938)]

1911.12.17 Addresses Mount Morris Baptist Church, New York, "The Evolution of Morality," or "The Meaning and Progress of Morality" [Columbia Spectator, 7 October 1911, 2; New York Times, 18 December 1911, 6; LW17]


1911-1912? In Huntington, on leave of absence from Columbia [1912.03.06? (02523)]


1912 Contributions to A Cyclopedia of Education published [MW7]


1912.01.04 "A Reply to Professor McGilvary's Questions" published [MW4]


1912.01.** "A Reply to Professor Royce's Critique of Instrumentalism" published [MW7]


1912.05.31 Addresses Phi Beta Kappa, Oberlin College, "The New Humanism" [Oberlin Review, 4 June 1912, 2; 1912.05.22 (02487); 1912.05.24 (02490); 1912.05.24 (02488); 1912.05.27 (02491)]


1912.06.09 Review of William James's Essays in Radical Empiricism published [MW7]


1912.07.25 "A Trenchant Attack on Logic," review of F. C. S. Schiller's Formal Logic, published [MW7]


1912.08.08 Addresses summer students at Columbia, "Professor for Suffrage"


1912.08.25 "Modern Psychologists," review of G. Stanley Hall's Founders of Modern Psychology, published [MW7]

1912.08.26 In New York, "came in on my way to the Adirondacks, where I shall be for the next few weeks" [1912.08.26 (01008)]


1912.09.** In Hurricane, NY [1912.08.26 (01008)]


1912.09.26 "In Response to Professor McGilvary" published [MW7]


1912.11.21 "Perception and Organic Action" published [MW7]


1912.11.21 Addresses New York Philosophical Club, "What Are States of Mind?"


1912.11.** Review of Hugh S. R. Eliot's Modern Science and the Illusions of Professor Bergson published [MW7]


1912.12.** Addresses Current Events Club, Englewood, NJ, "Woman's Suffrage" [Columbia University Quarterly 15 (March 1913): 186]


1913 "Education from a Social Perspective" published [MW7]


1913 Introduction to A Contribution to a Bibliography of Henri Bergson published [MW7]


1913 Introduction to Directory of the Trades and Occupations Taught in the Day and Evening Schools in Greater New York published [MW7]


1913 President, National Kindergarten Association, 1913-1914 [1914.04.11 (04863)]


1913.01-02 Addresses Colony Club of New York, six lectures on modern philosophy [Columbia University Quarterly 15 (March 1913): 186; Dykhuizen, 147, 362]


1913.02.06-18? Meets with Henri Bergson [1913.01.03 (02000); 1936.03.27 (07796)]


1913.02.21 Addresses Department of Kindergarten Education, Teachers College Alumni Conference, "Reasoning in Early Childhood" [Columbia Spectator, 13 January 1913, 2; ibid., 21 February 1913, 1]


1913.02.28 Addresses organizational meeting of Teachers League of New York, Milbank Chapel at Teachers College, "Professional Spirit among Teachers" [American Teacher 2 (February 1913): 27; 1913.02.23 (03312)]


1913.02.** "Some Dangers in the Present Movement for Industrial Education" published [MW7]


1913.03.22 "Industrial Education and Democracy" published [MW7]


1913.03? Addresses Teachers College Alumnae, "The Training of Thinking in Children" [Columbia University Quarterly 15 (June 1913): 302]

1913.03? Addresses Teachers League, "The Professional Freedom of the Teacher" [Columbia University Quarterly 15 (June 1913): 302]


1913.04.05 Addresses Association of Women High School Teachers, "Social Education" [Columbia University Quarterly 15 (June 1913): 302]


1913.04.** Attends celebration of 70th birthday of Harald H–ffding held at Columbia [Columbia Spectator, 2 April 1913, 7]


1913.04.25-26 Elected chairman of jurists and philosophers at meeting called by American Philosophical Association executive council [Columbia University Quarterly 15 (June 1913): 302]


1913.04.26 Chairman, Conference on Legal and Social Philosophy, Columbia University [Cohen, A Dreamer's Journey, 178-80]


1913.05.05 Informal address to bi-weekly conference of officers and graduate students [Columbia University Quarterly 15 (June 1913): 302]


1913.05.08 "The Problem of Values" published [MW7]


1913.06.** Honorary degree, LL.D., University of Michigan [University of Michigan Regents Proceedings, June 1913, 763-64]


1913.07.03 In Huntington [1913.07.03 (09132)]


1913.08.02-03 "Going over to Cold Spring" [1913.08.04 (02002)]


1913.08.11-15 In New York [1913.08.11 (03212)]


1913.08.16-10.01 In Huntington [1913.08.11 (03212)]


1913.09.04-06 In New York to sign lease for 2880 Broadway [1913.09.01 (03242); 1913.09.04 (02004)]


1913.09.06 "Cut-and-Try School Methods" published [MW7]


1913.09.13 Lunch with Marjorie Naumburg in Bay Shore [1913.09.14 (02006)]


1913.10.08-11? Stays in Bush apartment, 1 Central Park West [1913.10.08 (02013)]


1913.10.23 Addresses National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education, Grand Rapids, "Should Michigan Have Vocational Education under 'Unit' or 'Dual' Control?" [1913.10.24 (02932)]


1913.10? "Should Michigan Have Vocational Education under 'Unit' or 'Dual' Control?" published [MW7]


1913.10.** "Professional Spirit among Teachers" published [MW7]


1913.11.05 Meeting of Columbia professors to discuss forming association for American university teachers, New York, Faculty Club [1913.10.31 (02565)]


1913.11.17 Appointed chairman of committee at conference to organize university professors, Baltimore [Science 39 (27 March 1914): 458-59; Dykhuizen, 170]


1913.11.18 National Academy of Sciences meeting, Baltimore [1913.10.31 (02565); 1913.11.11 (02594)]


1913.12.08 Presides at welcome for Maria Montessori, Carnegie Hall, New York [Kramer, Maria Montessori, 194]


1913.12.16 Attends Musical Arts Concert with Bushes [1913.12.17 (02027)]


1913.12.16-19? Woodbridges rent Dewey's apartment; "give Sabino and me [JD] a room" [1913.08.04 (02002); 1913.12.16 (02022)]


1913.12.19 Leaves New York by train with Sabino [1913.12.17 (02027)]


1913.12.21 Arrives Mobile Bay, AL [1913.12.17 (02027)]


1913.12.22-24 Observes Fairhope, AL, experimental school [1913.12.17 (02027)]


1913.12.25 Sabino and JD at Mobile Bay during Christmas week [1914.01.04 (02700)]


1913.12.**? Plans to stop at Morristown, TN, to see ACD's sister [1913.12.17 (02027)]


1913.12.30 Addresses joint session of American Philosophical Association and American Psychological Association, New Haven, "Psychological Doctrine and Philosophical Teaching"

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