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Died. Irwin Edman, 57, witty, erudite chairman (1945-53) of Columbia University's philosophy department (a critic called him a "blend of Plato, Santayana and Manhattan") and frequent panelist on radio's Invitation to Learning and TV's Author Meets the Critics; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
...distinguished cluster of scholars, includes two Nobel Prizewinners (Physicists I. I. Rabi and Hideki Yukawa) and three winners of Pulitzer Prizes (Composer Douglas Moore, Historian Allan Nevins, Poet Mark Van Doren). It is also a reservoir of talent that serves the whole metropolis. Such men as Philosopher Irwin Edman, Critic Lionel Trilling and Classicist Gilbert Highet are full-fledged city celebrities. Economist Carl Shoup wrestles with city finances; Historian Harry Carman serves on the Board of Higher Education, and a slew of geologists and planners struggle with the city's water and traffic...
Among the members of the faculty committee are Justus Buchler, Chairman of the Contemporary Civilization Department. Richard Hofstadier, and philosophy professor Irwin Edman. Nevins said of Stevenson's campaign. "Not since the days of Woodrow Wilson has a candidate run a campaign on such a high level." He added that he expects a "really great presidency...
...students into their programs as possible? That, said Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold, would only produce "an all-round lowering of standards and cheapening of products." Most college presidents agreed. What about outright Government subsidies? "We'd rather go around in rags," cried President V. Raymond Edman of Wheaton (111.) College-and most educators agreed with that...
...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...