Ray Lepley papers, 1926-1961.

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Ray Lepley papers, 1926-1961.

This collection consists of biographical material on Raymond C. Lepley, material pertaining to John Dewey, research notes, correspondence, manuscripts, sermon materials, a large amount of class notes taken at Columbia, articles and other printed material.

7.00 boxes.

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Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

Lepley, Ray, 1903-

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As a student at Columbia University from 1926 to 1930, Raymond Lepley studied with John Dewey and Herbert Schneider. In 1928 and 1929 he was an exchange fellow and instructor at Edinburgh University. Upon graduation from Columbia in 1930, he joined the faculty of Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. Lepley edited two important symposia volumes concerning value theory: Values: A Cooperative Inquiry (1949) and The Language of Value (1957). The earlier volume includes John Dewey's influential es...

Dewey, John, 1859-1952

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John Dewey was born on October 20, 1859 in Burlington, Vermont and graduated in 1879 from The University of Vermont. After graduation Dewey taught high school and published in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy. In 1884 Dewey resumed his studies and earned a Ph. D. from John Hopkins University. Although he taught and remained primarily at Columbia University, he also taught or lectured at the University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of California, Imp...