Immortal

That John Dewey is very much alive he showed a fortnight ago when with a stirring, if tardy, utterance he pledged his vote and patriotic gratitude to the Brown Derby (TIME, Nov. 12).

Nor was John Dewey any less alive last week when a bust of John Dewey was unveiled at Columbia University, for he is one of the few mortals to whom immortality of fame is already conceded.

Said Dr. William Heard Kilpatrick at the unveiling, "He is America's greatest living philosopher, and must be included among the greatest thinkers of all times. He has in the minds of many changed almost our whole conception of what philosophy is, delivering us from the old puzzles that have formed the stock in trade of the traditional philosophy. He is chiefly responsible for our thinking of intelligence as primarily instrumental. His philosophy has common sense acceptability and a social bearing which distinguishes it in degree from all other philosophies."

John Dewey's bust was fashioned by the able hands of Sculptor Jacob Epstein. Among those whose gift it was were Oliver Wendell Holmes, Clarence Darrow, Economist Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman, Sociologist Owen Reed Lovejoy, Educator-Scientist David Starr Jordan, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise.