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Updated: May 23, 2025
It was one of the most thrilling moments of the entire battle. "It was a wise move on Admiral Dewey's part in withdrawing at that moment, for our men were rapidly becoming exhausted. For my own part I do not think I could have held out another half hour, and neither could my men. We were not only wearied physically, but the nervous strain was something awful.
Before our return to Cebu the officers took us to see the fortifications made by the Spaniards after Admiral Dewey's victory in Manila Bay, fortifications they expected to use as a last defence against invading Americans. Not far from these earthworks was an old nipa church, most picturesque in its decay.
"Attack preceded by one-half hour's firing from two of Admiral Dewey's vessels. "Otis." "Manila, February 13. Adjutant-General, Washington: Everything quiet this morning; business in city resuming former activity. Otis." "Manila, February 13. General Miller reports from Iloilo that that town was taken on the 11th inst., and is held by troops.
Dewey's often-questionable and more often misused programs of schooling, Jimmy's parents had trained and educated their young man quite well in the primary informations of fact. He read with facility and spoke with a fine vocabulary although no amount of intellectual training could make his voice change until his glands did.
With such prudent as well as well founded reflections, I succeeded in calming my companions shortly before the official news arrived reporting that the Washington Government, acting on Admiral Dewey's suggestion, had intimated its intention to despatch a Civil Commission to Manila which would treat with the Filipinos with a view to arriving at a definite understanding respecting the government of the Islands.
Landing at Manila, the commercial centre and capital of the islands, we find ourselves in a city blending the characteristics of an old-fashioned Spanish town with the mild business air of a third-rate western port. The buildings speak of the tropical perils to be encountered. Dewey's bombardment was more generous than the earthquakes and gales that smote the Cathedral.
This was Dewey's peculiar skill. Poets had already done it for poets, and in a sense neither strictly religious nor expected to be made practical.
The intensity of the folly of the Filipinos making war upon the United States is on exhibition in this letter, and it is serviceable as a measure of their intelligence. It is with this equipment of elementary knowledge that Agoncillo is in Europe to solicit the intervention of the great powers for his country and asserts that he lost Dewey's letters in a shipwreck.
Ch'en Tu-hsiu who put himself strongly behind the students, was more radical than other contributors but at first favoured Western democracy and Western science; he was influenced mainly by John Dewey who was guest professor in Peking in 1919-20. Similarly tending towards liberalism in politics and Dewey's ideas in the field of philosophy were others, mainly Hu Shih.
Which is the suggestive idea for this person, and which for that one? Mr. Dr. Dewey's pupils regenerate themselves by going without their breakfast a fact, but also an ascetic idea. Not every one can use these ideas with the same success. But apart from such individually varying susceptibilities, there are common lines along which men simply as men tend to be inflammable by ideas.
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