Endnotes
1 Henry Steele Commager, The American Mind (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950), p. 100.
2 John Dewey, The Early Works, 1882-1898, Volume 4 (Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1971), ix.
3 For a comprehensive bibliography of publications about John Dewey see Works About John Dewey, 1886-1995, compiled and edited by Barbara Levine (Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996). Levine notes that nearly 2,000 items were published on Dewey since 1977 (viii). Checklist of Writings About John Dewey second edition, enlarged, 1887-1977, compiled and edited by Jo Ann Boydston and Kathleen Poulos (Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1978), indicated that 2,200 studies were covered in the first edition and an additional 300 items appeared after the first edition was published in 1974 (ix).
4 John Dewey to James B. Edmonson, October 26, 1929, "Minutes of the Faculty, 1928-30," Box 1, University of Michigan School of Education Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan (hereafter cited as Bentley Historical Library).
5 Wilfred B. Shaw, editor, The University of Michigan An Encyclopedic Survey, Vol. 2 (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 1951), 674-675. A thorough treatment of pragmatism at the University of Chicago, which alludes to Michigan's contributions, is presented in Andrew Feffer's The Chicago Pragmatists and American Progressivism (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993).
6 Howard H. Peckham, The Making of the University of Michigan, 1817-1992, 175th edition, edited and updated by Margaret L. Steneck and Nicholas H. Steneck (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library, 1994), 96.
7 Peckham, The Making of the University of Michigan, 62-84.
8 President's Report to the Board of Regents for the Year Ending Sept. 30, 1891 (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 1891), 9, 24-27, 30.
9 George Dykhuizen's The Life and Mind of John Dewey (Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973), is a standard reference biography on Dewey. The section on Michigan was extracted from his article "John Dewey and the University of Michigan" in Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 23, No. 4, Oct.-Dec., 1962: 513-544.
10 For a comprehensive examination of the influences on and development of Dewey's philosophy, particularly at Michigan, see Young John Dewey: An Essay in Intellectual History, by Neal Coughlan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975).
11 Shaw, Encyclopedic Survey, 670.
12 B. F. Cocker, Handbook of Philosophy (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Courier Steam Printing House, 1878).
13 Proceedings of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan from January 1881 to January 1886 (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Courier Book and Job Printing, 1886), 482.
14 John Dewey to James B. Angell, July 19, 1884, Box 2, James B. Angell Papers, Bentley Historical Library.
15 Calendar of the University of Michigan for 1884-85, 50-51.
16 Michigan Argonaut, Vol. 2, No. 2, October 20, 1883: 23-24.
17 Michigan Argonaut, Vol. 2, No. 4, November 17, 1883: 63.
18 Michigan Argonaut, Vol. 3, No. 3, October 18, 1884: 23. See also Philosophical Society Record Book, 1884-1892, Philosophical Society (University of Michigan) Record Books, Bentley Historical Library.
20 Membership Roll, 1847-1906, Box 1, First Congregational Church of Ann Arbor Records, Bentley Historical Library.
21 Students' Christian Association, Monthly Bulletin, Vol. 6, No. 2, November 1884: 20-21.
23 For a thorough treatment of the relation of Dewey's religious belief to his philosophy see Steven C. Rockefeller's John Dewey: Religious Faith and Democratic Humanism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991).
24 George S. Morris to James B. Angell, January 6, 1885, Box 2, James B. Angell Papers, Bentley Historical Library.
25 Proceedings of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan, 1886-1891: 34.
26 Records indicate that Chipman was admitted on February 18, 1880, and suggest that her enrollment between 1880 and 1886 was irregular. "Register 1872-1888, Literary Department" (outsize), University of Michigan Office of the Registrar Records, Bentley Historical Library.
27 Jane Dewey, "Biography of John Dewey," in The Philosophy of John Dewey, ed. Paul Arthur Schilpp (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1939), 21.
28 1924 Alumnae Survey, Box 109, University of Michigan Alumni Association Records, Bentley Historical Library.
29 Shaw, Encyclopedic Survey, 673.
30 For a recent and thorough treatment of this topic see Robert B. Westbrook's John Dewey and American Democracy (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991) and Alan Ryan's John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism (New York: W. W. Norton, 1995).
31 For examples of Adams's lectures and writings during this period, see Henry Carter Adams Papers, Bentley Historical Library.
32 Dykhuizen, The Life and Mind of John Dewey, 57.
33 President's Report to the Board of Regents, 1888: 7-8.
34 Proceedings of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan, 1886-1891: 298.
35 John Dewey, "Ethics in the University of Michigan," in Ethical Record, Vol. II, October 1889, 145-148. Cited in The Early Works, Vol. 3: 48-50.
36 James Hayden Tufts, "This I Believe," in Contemporary American Philosophy: Personal Statements, Vol. 2, edited by George Plimpton Adams and William Pepperell Montague (New York: Russel, 1962), 338.
37 University Record, Vol. 2, No. 4, February 1893: 94-95.
38 University Record, Vol. 3, No. 4, February 1894: 101-102.
39 John Dewey, The Study of Ethics: A Syllabus (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Register Publishing Company, 1894), prefatory note [iii].
42 John Dewey, The School and Society (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1899), 104.
43 B. A. Hinsdale, Studies in Education (Chicago: Werner School Book Company, 1896), 169.
44 William H. Payne, Contributions to the Science of Education (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1886), 343.
45 University Record, Vol. 2, No. 4, February 1893: 83-84.
46 Payne, Contributions to the Science of Education, 314.
47 Cited in the Nation, Vol. 26, No. 664, March 21, 1878: 198; No. 665, March 28, 1878: 211-212; No. 666, April 4, 1878: 228-229; No. 669, April 25, 1878: 275-276. Referenced in University Record, Vol. 2, No. 1, April 1892: 7.
48 John Dewey, "The Angle of Reflection," in Inlander, Vol. 1, No. 2, April 1891: 82-84.
49 Inspection visits attributable to Dewey for which reports are extant include the following: Owosso (1888); Ypsilanti (June 4, 1888); Minneapolis, Minnesota (May 10, 1889); Fenton (April 19, 1892); Corunna (April 20, 1892); Michigan City, Indiana (April 11, 1893); Cassopolis (April 16-17, 1894); and Constantine (April 17-18, 1894). Committee on Diploma Schools, 1884-1904, University of Michigan Bureau of School Services Records, Box 1, and University of Michigan Office of the Registrar Records, Boxes 7-9, Bentley Historical Library.
50 Inspection Report Ypsilanti High School, June 4 [1888], "School Visits 1887/88," Box 7, University of Michigan Office of the Registrar Records, Bentley Historical Library.
51 Report of Inspection, Corunna High School, April 20, 1892, "School Visits 1891/92," Box 8, University of Michigan Office of the Registrar Records, Bentley Historical Library.
52 Records of the Michigan Schoolmasters' Club, 1886-1927, Box 1, Michigan Schoolmasters' Club Records, Bentley Historical Library.
54 John Dewey, "Psychology in High Schools from the Standpoint of the College," in The Michigan Schoolmasters' Club First Meeting (Lansing, Mich.: H. R. Pattengill, [1886]) (Reproduced in facsimile by Edwards Brothers, Ann Arbor, 1947), 1-5.
55 John Dewey, "Anniversary Address" in Journal of the Michigan Schoolmasters' Club 1936, Vol. 38, No. 8, July 25, 1936: [5]-13.
56 The Chronicle, Vol. 21, No. 27, May 24, 1890: 327-328.
57 William Warner Bishop, "College Days-1889-93" in Michigan Alumnus, Vol. 54, No. 24, July 31, 1948: 348.
59 Michigan Argonaut, Vol. 7, No. 6, November 10, 1888: 40.
61 Students' Christian Association, Monthly Bulletin, Vol. 15, No. 3, December 1893: 38.
62 John Dewey, "Why Study Philosophy?" in Inlander, Vol. 4, No. 3, December 1893: 106-109.
63 Movements of Thought in the Nineteenth Century lecture notes, 1891-92, Box 2, Eliza Jane Read Sunderland Papers, Bentley Historical Library.
64 Political Philosophy lecture notes, 1893, Box 7, Charles H. Cooley Papers, Bentley Historical Library.
65 Report on Graduate Work, March 7, 1892, Box 8, University of Michigan Office of the Registrar Records, Bentley Historical Library.
66 University Record, Vol. 2, No. 3, November 1892: 51.
67 Announcement of the Graduate School 1892-93 (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 1892).
68 Executive Board Minutes, 1892-1948 [microfilm], Box 3, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies Records, Bentley Historical Library.
69 John Dewey, "Philosophy in American Universities: The University of Michigan," Monist, Vol. 1, October 1890: 150-151, cited in Early Works, Vol. 3, 1969: 62.
70 University Record, Vol. 3, No. 2, June 1893: 33-34.
72 Henry C. Adams, "The Graduate School," Inlander, Vol. 3, No. 7, April 1893: 313-314.
74 Donald C. and Patricia L. Stewart, The Life and Legacy of Fred Newton Scott (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997), 3.
75 John Dewey, "Fred Newton Scott," in Oracle, Vol. 25, 1892: [3-6]
76 Castalian, Vol. 6, 1891: 24-29.
77 Oracle, Vol. 25, 1892: [3-6].
79 University Record, Vol. 1, No. 3, November 1891: 58.
80 University Record, Vol. 2, No. 3, November 1892: 52.
81 Inlander, Vol. 1, No. 1, March 1891: [i].
82 Responding to a letter from the director of the Michigan Historical Collections (predecessor of the Bentley Historical Library) soliciting manuscript material for the archives, Dewey responded that he had "never preserved any mss [manuscripts] at any time." He noted some of his writings while at Michigan stating, "I helped found the publication 'The Inlander' with Prof. F.N. Scott, and wrote under the caption 'The Angle of Reflection' but have no copies." John Dewey to L. G. Vander Velde, December 14, 1939, John Dewey Papers, Bentley Historical Library.
83 Inlander, Vol. 1, No. 1, March 1891: 35.
84 Michigan Daily, Vol. 2, No. 118, March 16, 1892. See also "John Dewey and 'Thought News' at the University of Michigan," by Willinda Savage in Michigan Alumni Quarterly Review, Vol. 56, No. 18, Spring 1950: 204-209.
85 Corydon Lovine Ford, The Child of Democracy: Being the Adventures of the Embryo State (Ann Arbor, Mich.: John V. Sheehan & Co., 1894), 174.
86 John Dewey to Henry Carter Adams, April 29, 1889, Henry Carter Adams Papers, Box 2, Bentley Historical Library.
87 Michigan Daily, Vol. 2, No. 118, March 16, 1892.
88 Detroit Tribune, April 10, 1892, cited in Savage, "John Dewey and 'Thought News,'" 207.
89 Detroit Tribune, April 13, 1892, cited in Savage, "John Dewey and 'Thought News,'" 207-208.
90 Cited in Savage, "John Dewey and 'Thought News,'" 209.
91 Annual Report of the President to the Board of Regents, 1892: 22.
92 John Dewey, Democracy and Education (New York: The MacMillan Company, 1916), 384.
93 John Dewey to William James, March 1903, in Ralph Barton Perry The Thought and Character of William James, Vol. 2 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1935), 517-519.
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