[I'm resending a corrected version of Bradley Bateman's message because  
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Just for the sake of historical accuracy, it should be noted that the  
famous "sifting and winnowing" phrase to which Barkley refers was not  
written by Richard T. Ely. The phrase appeared at the end of the report  
written by the special committee of the state board of education that  
heard the case against Ely in 1894. 
  
There is a nice picture of the plaque that contains the phrase at:  
 
http://www.secfac.wisc.edu/SiftAndWinnow.htm 
 
For many years, it was not clear who had written the phrase. In the  
1940's, shortly before his death, several people wrote to Ely to ask who  
the author was and he reported that it was Charles K. Adams, who had been  
the president of the University of Wisconsin at the time. A photograph of  
Ely's letter identifying the author can be viewed at: 
 
http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/Images/WER1035-3.html 
  
Bradley Bateman