Word: adler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adler Yardling Star...
...preliminary game, the Yardlings defeated Wesleyan's freshmen, 57 to 48. The Crimson's scoring was evenly distributed with Harold Downey, Warren Kantrowitz, and Jim Nolen all scoring in double figures. Bob Bowman, Howard Adler, and John Van Doren also played well
...preliminary game at 6:30 p.m., the Yardlings will meet the Wesleyan freshmen. Freshman coach Floyd Wilson plans to use George Doyle and Warren Kantrowitz as guards, Bob Bowman at center, and Bruce Downey and Howard Adler at the forwards. This team averages about 6 feet 2 inches in height, but is somewhat slower than Wilson would prefer. He was quite pleased, however, with the squad's showing against the Crimson's jayvees last Saturday...
With $655,000 from the Ford and Old Dominion Foundations, Adler will be assisted by 14 full-time scholars. He also intends to call in such notable consultants as Thomist Jacques Maritain and Yale Metaphysician Paul Weiss. Together these men will pluck one topic at a time from the modern Babel, and at the end of each investigation, publish books on it. Their purpose will not be to offer any pat answers. All they can possibly do, says Adler, is to "try to reach agreement on 1) the questions to be answered, 2) the range of possible answers...
...Adler sees it, the Summa Dialectica must go beyond his Syntopicon of the 102 Great Ideas (TIME, March 17). The Syntopicon merely laid the. groundwork by furnishing a key to the great books of the past. The Dialectica must attempt to treat the great issues (God, Man, Nature, History, Knowledge, Being, etc.) in relation to the present. Each topic may take many years. But eventually, Adler hopes, a great conversation will have begun. It will be a conversation that may never have an end, but if all goes according to plan, men will finally learn at least what the talk...