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...Erskine was his old self, drawing students into flashing arguments (he once reduced Mortimer Adler, now an eminent University of Chicago professor and an important-books man himself, to tears). He urged them on to "nobler loves and nobler cares." As the course grew, younger teachers-Poet Mark Van Doren, Philosopher Irwin Edman, Historian Jacques Barzun, Critic Lionel Trilling and Philosopher Mortimer Adler -came to help...
...Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas, Playwright Robert Sherwood, Historian Carl Van Doren, Commentator Raymond Swing, and Cass Canfield, chairman of the board of Harper's, which published Streit's book...
Walter B. Teague, president of the Society, is scheduled to open the series next week. Later forum speakers include David Chapman, designer for Montgomery Ward, Harold Van Doren of Beech Aircraft, and Theodore Clement, head of Eastman Kodak's style division...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, discussed by Mark Van Doren, John Mason Brown and Ludwig Lewisohn...
...Poet Mark Van Doren: "The issue should not be what a teacher is or believes, but how he teaches ... A Communist who . . . deliberately twists or distorts the truth ... is a bad teacher and should not be kept in his job; but so is a pragmatist, a Christian Scientist, or a Mohammedan who does the same thing...