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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol 2. No. 3, Barry Goldwater, Hubert H. Humphrey, E. H. Templin, Hans Beerman, Harold Brodbar, Raymond Roseliep, Elizabeth Cochran, Russell Goldfarb, Clare Goldfarb

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

THIS is the political spring of a political year. The "first hundred days" of the Kennedy Administration are about to become history, and there are other activities on the American and the midwestern scenes which are essentially political in nature and/ or origin. The Centennial of Kansas statehood has officially begun, and the Centennial of the American Civil War likewise. More importantly, rank-and-file Americans seem to be taking more interest in political activities and problems than is their usual wont, although this may be only a seasonal thing, what with state legislatures in session as …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 2 No. 2, Alvin H. Proctor, Madeline Mason, Jack W. Vanderhoof, Lewis Turco, Karel Hulicka, R. D. Lakin, David D. Anderson

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

THIS is a historic month, and the editors of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY have perforce taken this fact into account in selecting the material appearing in this issue. The presidential elections are behind us, and a new national administration will be inaugurated on the twentieth of this month. On the twenty-ninth, Kansans will observe the centennial of statehood and inaugurate a year of celebrations of all sorts for this important midwest milestone. In a sense, this month of January, 1961, is a meeting point for the Old Frontier of the Kansas past and the New Frontiers …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 2 No. 1, James W. Vander Zanden, Richard C. Welty, Nita Laing, Lewis A. Bayles, James Woodress, Theodore M. Sperry

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

WITH this number, THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY begins its second year of publication. Everything considered, the editors face the future with confidence. Subscription renewals have been coming in all summer, and even more important, unsolicited manuscripts from all over have been arriving with increasing frequency.

This first issue of Volume II contains articles on a variety of subjects of rather strong current interest. The editors have taken into account several incontestable facts in selecting these discussions for publication. This issue appears a short month before the American presidential election. This month marks the 125th anniversary of …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol 1. No. 4, Judy Bounds Coleman, R. D. Lakin, Preston Slosson, Rebecca Patterson, David G. Barry, Lewis Turco, Charles Burgess

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

WITH this number, THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY rounds out Volume I and in effect reaches a kind of maturity. Like the April issue, this fourth number moves our horizons further out by broadening the scope of material published. Once more the editors are able to offer a fairly wide variety of intellectual fare for our discerning readers. While the April issue saw us embark for the first time on the wine-dark sea of verse, this issue carries us further with contributions from two poets who write in the modem mood. And, manuscripts already in hand indicate, …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 1 No. 3, David G. Barry, Jerome Cushman, Stuart Levine, Reed Schmickle, Clay P. Malick, Charles E. Guardia

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

THIS NUMBER of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY moves our horizons out beyond any previous measure. While our first two issues have contained solid material on a variety of subjects from a diversity of minds, the basic criticism of them has been that the Social Science area was somewhat overrepresented. Even a casual check of our contents will bear out this charge. Therefore, it is with considerable satisfaction and even relief that the editors offer this issue-with only one contribution from the Social Sciences. The scope of subject matter is broader in this issue than it has …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 1 No. 2, Paul Phelps Hutchison, Fred L. Parrish, John Q. Reed, Morris L. Stevens, Earl Swisher, Hans Beerman

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

FEW AMERICANS who have not visited Canada, our closest friend and ally to the north, have much appreciation for the fact that Canada is a separate and distinct sovereign nation, broad in expanse, magnificent in her natural endowments, and peopled with far more than red-coated members of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. It was the editor's privilege to visit the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta in the summer of 1957 as director of a field trip whose personnel were basically Kansans, many of them school teachers in the Sunflower State. It was little short …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 1 No. 1, Theodor [Unknown], Hans Beerman, Katharine F. Nutt, Alvin H. Proctor, Clyde C. Walton, Richard C. Welty

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

Even before Vice President Richard M. Nixon had announced his mission to Russia, the editors of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY had been fortunate in securing the manuscript of the lead article in this issue. With interest in the U.S. S. R. as high as it currently is, this rather charming autobiographical report of the life and hard times of a Russian peasant seems extremely appropriate for publication. In plain, unvarnished language it gives a painfully detailed picture of the grim problems its author encountered as his country passed from revolution to world war and into the …

The Pragmatic Concept Of Truth, John Prescott Johnson

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The pragmatic concept of truth is both a reaction from and an attack against the older epistemology of the absolutists. Since Plato's time truth had been defined in terms of the idea's copying a transcendental reality. When the pragmatists arrived they felt that this immediate correspondence of the idea was insufficient to establish the content and proof of the truth of the idea.