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a c k n o w l e d g m e n t s There is a large and growing body of scholarship on John Dewey involving philosophers, historians, psychologists, and other disciplinary orientations. The Center for Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois University continually catalogues and updates this scholarly literature on their web site, and also hosts visiting researchers. The Center has completed the publication of the collected works (which are also available on compact disc) and is now in the process of completing forthcoming volumes of Dewey’s correspondence. I have conducted research at the Center on three different occasions in the past seven years. During these visits, I have consulted the enormous archive of unpublished manuscripts and correspondence that is housed in the Special Collections of Morris Library at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. I owe a large debt to Center director Larry Hickman and his staff for making these visits exciting and intellectually rewarding. A complete listing of archive sources is found in the bibliography. I would also like to express my gratitude to several other persons who provided information that proved to be enormously useful in reconstructing Dewey’s activities and relationships with the Neurological Institute of New York, Babies Hospital, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University. Dr. Lewis P. Rowland, former director of the Neurological Institute, furnished important personal contacts with persons af¤liated with the institute in the 1930s. Dr. Lawrence Pool shared with me his published history of the Neurological Institute and also made it possible for me to contact other colleagues who worked at the Neurological Institute several decades ago. Michael Meyer, Director of the Records and Archives of Presbyterian Hospital, generously assisted me in obtaining minutes and correspondence pertaining to the Neurological Institute. Dr. William Damrosch shared his recollections of Babies Hospital during the 1930s and loaned me a rare published history of the professional accomplishments of the hospital medical staff. Dr. Ronald Oppenheim, a neurobiologist at Wake Forest Medical School, furnished me copies of letters he exchanged with Myrtle McGraw in the 1970s and 1980s that were crucial in establishing Dewey’s personal relationship with scientists who worked with McGraw in her experimental infant studies. In addition, Melissa Smith, an archivist with the Rockefeller Archive Center in Tarrytown, New York, and Patricia Haynes, of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, each helped me locate an impressive number of ¤les from their respective archives. These records contained reports and correspondence relating to grants that supported infant studies conducted by many pioneering research- ers, including McGraw and her colleagues. I would also like to express my thanks to Alexandra Mason, former curator of the Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas, who provided valuable assistance in ¤nding useful information in their neurology collection regarding John Dewey’s relationship to C. J. Herrick and other neurologists. Janice Stone and her staff with the Interlibrary Loan Division of Kennedy Library at Cal Poly State University helped me obtain many rare books and articles that were indispensable to me in the course of my research. It is ¤tting that my book will be published during Cal Poly’s centennial celebration, as the university has been guided by Dewey’s “learn by doing” philosophy ever since its founding. Special thanks are owed to Dan Howard-Green, executive assistant to the president, for his support and intellectual companionship. Special thanks are also due to David Ment, Director of Special Collections of Millbank Memorial Library, Teachers College, whose archive containing the records of Lucy Sprague Mitchell and the Bank Street School proved to be enormously helpful in tracing Dewey’s involvement in experimental education during his years at Columbia University. Bernard Crystal, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, and his staff at Butler Library, Columbia University , provided valuable assistance in locating information regarding Randolph Bourne and other Dewey acquaintances in New York. Peter Hirtle, former curator of the History of Medicines Division of the National Library of Medicine , helped me obtain documents from Milton Senn and Lawrence K. Frank, papers that revealed Dewey’s broad in®uence among psychologists. Frank’s wife, Mary Perry, also provided useful information. Father Omer Kline of St. Vincents College generously assisted me in reviewing the records of Fr. Eric McCormack that shed much-needed light on Dewey’s relationship with F. M. Alexander. Special thanks are also due to the late pioneering psychologists Lois Murphy and Tao Abel for their recollections and broad historical...

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