Posted on 01/09/2018 10:26:27 PM PST by Faith Presses On
Adelaide Hasse was used to professional challenges. As a young woman, she struggled to be taken seriously by mostly male executive boards. She created a groundbreaking new way to classify government documents—and was disappointed when a male colleague claimed the credit. But armed with a new job at the New York Public Library, a better salary, and an ambitious new project, she finally felt optimistic about her career.
To pull off her newest plan, she’d need support, so she approached the leading voice in her field, Melvil Dewey, a man whose innovations made him a household name. He suggested they meet privately about her new project. Encouraged, she made her way to Albany, New York—only to find that he had arranged what amounted to a weekend-long date. It’s unclear what happened next, but Hasse departed hastily after being taken for a long drive by Dewey, and later spoke to colleagues about how offensive his behavior had been.
The story sounds like it could involve a Harvey Weinstein or Matt Lauer, but it didn’t. It took place in 1905, more than a century before the #metoo movement that exposed the sexual misconduct of America’s most powerful men. And the man in question was Melvil Dewey, the library pioneer whose decimal system of classification is still used in libraries today—a “protean genius” who raised himself from a poor farmer’s son to an icon during his lifetime.
(Excerpt) Read more at history.com ...
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2013/05/dewey_stalins_propagandist_the_worlds_teacher.html
I’ll bet he had a system.
Dewey founded the University of Chicago laboratory school, supported educational organizations, and supported settlement houses especially Jane Addams’ Hull House.[39]
Through his work at the Hull House serving on its first board of trustees, Dewey was not only an activist for the cause but also a partner working to serve the large immigrant community of Chicago and women’s suffrage.
I'll bet after running into the young lady in this story, he hastily changed the system's name from digital to decimal. ;-)
But another little-shared item about him, is that he went on to become a co-founder and partner in the legendary law firm, Dewey, Cheatem, & Howe.
Ah, many a lady was scarred by the Dewey “decimal system.”
Having grown up near New England, I must inform you that the lawyer’s surname is “Cheatham.” ;-)
I hear the guy who invented microfiche was a real cad. Time to march on the liberries.
Down with knowledge and truth!
They are just so pan-phobic.
Down with knowledge and truth!
They are just so pan-phobic.
If I am not mistaken, Dewey was also a raging leftist and statist.
Ok, so it happened in 1905...I wasn’t around then...
The law Firm JUST BEGS for a COMIC ... name ot “DO WE. CHEAT EM AND HOW” LOL SORRY FOR CHANNELING THE THREE STOOGES.
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