Dewey, Goldschmidt to be First Incumbents of New Lectureships

John Dewey, Professor of Philosophy at Columbia, and Adolph Goldschmidt, professor at the University of Berlin, will come to Harvard as lecturers for half of the academic year 1930-31. Each will be the first incumbent of a recently endowed lectureship. Professor Dewey will be William James lecturer during the second half of the next academic year; Professor Goldschmidt will be Kuno Francke Professor of German art and culture for the first half.

Professor Dewey, one of America's outstanding contemporary figures, was graduated from the University of Vermont in the class of 1879. 'He secured his Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1884, and received the, degree of LL. D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1904: from the University of Vermont in 1910: and from Peking National University in 1920. At Columbia he has been professor of Philosophy since' 1904, during which time he has been an influential member of the Memorial National Academy of Sciences, the American Psychological Association, and the American Philosophy Society.

The celebration last fall by philosophers from all parts of the country of the seventieth birthday of Professor Dewey brought him prominently before the American public. His publications extend back; to his first book "Psychology", which appeared in 1886. His more recent publications include "A Quest for Certainty" and "Sources of a Science of Education", both published in 1929 While at Harvard Professor Dewey will give a series of ten public lectures on a subject not yet determined, and he will also give seminary instruction to graduate students in Philosophy.

Professor Goldschmidt, who comes as the first occupant of the Kuno Francke Chair, lectured at Harvard during 1927-28. At that time he conducted a seminary on German Sculpture of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and gave a course of public lectures on Mediseval German Cathedrals.

The Kuno Francke Professorship was founded in the fall of 1929 by a group of ten donors, among whom are: Juling Rosenwald, Henry Goldman '76, G. F. Warburg '20, C. J. Liebman '98. They dore Baetenhaussen, Frederick A. O. Schwarg, and Henry Schwarg.