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More Than Nails. Wheaton's fourth president, 59-year-old Dr. Victor Raymond Edman (a minister in the Swedish Mission Covenant Group), sees the Bible and science as two separate systems of knowledge. "Jesus doesn't choose to speak to us on matters scientific," he says. "He could, but he doesn't. Science helps us understand a great deal about the universe, but not about the creator of the universe and his personality." How about the theory of evolution? Says Dr. Russell Mixter of the Plymouth Brethren, zoology professor and chairman of the biological sciences department...
Born. To the Rev. Billy Graham and Ruth Bell Graham of Montreal, N.C. a son, their second, and fifth child; in Asheville, N.C. Name: Nelson Edman...
...historian, Carleton Hayes, F.J. E. Woodbridge with his "angry impersonations of the world's philosophers," John Dewey with his "bagpipe drone," John Erskine with his "princely introductions to the poets"-as well as a cluster of such talented younger men as Mark Van Doren, Mortimer Adler and Irwin Edman. To help pay his bills, Barzun and some friends ran a "perfectly legal and honest tutoring mill" called Ghosts Inc. "No subjects were barred. If a retired minister came who wanted to read Hamlet in Esperanto (one did), we supplied an instructor who spoke the language like a native...
...Levine, came to the U.S. from Russia, he took over Herman's religious training. Rabbi Levine, now an alert 90-year-old living in Tel Aviv, is one of the two men who, Wouk believes, have most influenced his life (the other: Columbia's late Philosopher Irwin Edman). "For 23 years," recalls Wouk, "my grandfather never ate any meat except fowl, because he insisted on personally seeing the slaughtering done according to the prescribed ritual...
There is no question that Dartmouth brings important men to speak to its seniors. Speakers who have appeared in the past few years include such named as Dean Acheson, Sherman Adams, Crane Brinton, Dean Bundy, President-Emeritus Conant, Raphael Demos, Irwin Edman, Erich Fromm, Wilbur K. Jordan, Owen Lattimore, Archibald MacLeish, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Paul J. Tillich...