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| Exhibition poster © Rachel Bartholomay 2015 |
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Poster by graphic designer Rachel Bartholomay for an exhibition of student posters about
historic pencil sharpeners from the P.D. Whitson Collection. Department
of Art, University of Northern Iowa.
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John C. Thirlwall, quoted in
Robert Bruce Williams, ed., John Dewey, Recollections (Washington DC:
University Press of America, 1970), p. 157.
In 1932 I was an English
graduate student at Columbia [University]. Ashley Thorndike was then Chairman
of the English Department, and every graduate student took his Shakespeare
course, which [began] at 2:00 pm in a lecture room holding over one hundred [students],
on the sixth floor of Philosophy Hall. One day, promptly at 2:00 pm, Professor
[John] Dewey shambled in, sat down at the desk and proceeded to read a long
list, marking absent each one, since there was no reply from a crowded room. At
2:10 [Professor] Thorndike strode into the room, gawped at Dewey at moment,
then tapped him on the shoulder, saying: “John, you are one flight up.” None of
us laughed as Thorndike proceeded to read the proof sheets of his Shakespearian
Comedy.
