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...Mortimer Adler is with us again, I see. Like the seven-year itch, he crops up right on schedule. But why TIME [March 17] should make an issue out of Adler's banalities is beyond me ... His sophistries are more transparent than ever. His furious preoccupation with thought is an academic pose. There is no need for him to make believe that he is searching for truth, because he has it up his sleeve all the time...
Congratulations on your cover of March 17. If St. Patrick were alive, he would be helping Mortimer Adler drive the snakes out of modern education...
...college Dr. Neuman now runs was founded by two men who believed, as he does, that the U.S. is the hope of Jewish learning. Dr. Cyrus Adler, then assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and Moses A. Dropsie, a wealthy Philadelphia lawyer, dreamed of a "Golden Age of Jewish Literature" in the U.S. When Dropsie died in 1905, he left $1,000,000 to found Dropsie College...
Doctors Only. In a two-story stone building on Philadelphia's busy Broad Street, Librarian Adler began setting up the kind of school Lawyer Dropsie had in mind. There were to be no restrictions on race, creed or sex, and no tuition fees. Only candidates for doctorates would be accepted, and the admission requirements would be kept purposely stiff...
...When Dr. Adler died in 1940, Neuman took over his office and began to expand the college, which now has 15 professors, 125 students. Dr. Neuman organized new departments of Jewish philosophy and Hebrew literature, the history of Semitic civilization, comparative religion, education and Assyriology. In 1948 he added modern Middle Eastern studies to the curriculum, and the State Department now sends some promising young diplomats to Dropsie for a one-year orientation course before packing them off to posts in the Middle East...