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PHILOSOPHER'S HOLIDAY-Irwin Edman-Viking...
...Irwin Edman was 21 when he began teaching philosophy at Columbia University. On the campus one day shortly afterwards he met his old professor, Felix Adler. "What are you doing now?" inquired the professor. "Teaching," said Edman. "Teaching what?" "Philosophy," said Edman. The old man patted the open-faced, blond youth on the back. "How cute!" he said...
...Edman was made a full Professor of Philosophy. Now 41, and one of Columbia's most popular professors, he is also credited, through his writings, with an increased attendance in philosophy courses at other colleges as well. As a teacher of philosophy he no longer runs the risk of being called cute. As a philosopher in his own right, he might still tempt some old philosopher...
...Edman's own philosophy is a humanist cocktail whose chief ingredients are Plato, Santayana and Manhattan. It is the last component that shines, like a pickled cherry, out of Philosopher's Holiday, a tall, watery glassful of reminiscences, anecdotes and essays devoted to "persons and places, many of them obscure, about which I have occasionally told my friends over a glass of sherry. . . ." Son of a shirt & blouse manufacturer, Philosopher Edman still lives in the neighborhood where he was born and brought up, a stone's throw from Columbia University. He has "spent a long life...
LIVING PHILOSOPHIES-Albert Einstein, Theodore Dreiser, Hu Shih, John Dewey, H. L. Mencken, Irving Babbitt, H. G. Wells, Julia Peterkin, George Jean Nathan, Robert Andrews Millikan,Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Arthur Keith, James Truslow Adams, Irwin Edman, Joseph Wrood Krutch, Bertrand Russell, Bronislaw Malinowski, Beatrice Webb, Lewis Mumford, Sir James Jeans, J. B. S. Haldane, Hilaire Belloc- Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Not that it will help people to live a beautiful and true life but because it is always interesting to hear famed men praise or blame the eternal verities, this collection of credos is offered for serious summer reading. Perhaps from...