Word: griswold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...School promoted two of its professors to endowed chairs yesterday. Dean Griswold announced the appointments of Sheldon Glueck as the first Roscoe Pound Professor of Law and Louis L. Jaffe as new Byrne Professor of Administrative Procedure...
...Merrill Griswold, a director of Boston's American Research & Development Corp., which finances new companies, told the committee that E.P.T. favors big, entrenched companies, penalizes new and growing businesses. Under it, said Griswold, "many new industries that might otherwise be born will never see the light of day." But the New York Times laid its editorial finger on the most glaring inequity of E.P.T. President Truman had asked for the tax to "recapture excess profits made since the start" of the Korean war. But Snyder's proposal, the Times pointed out, regards one-fourth of pre-Korean profits...
...Griswold had taken a Ph.D., become an instructor in history and a specialist in international relations. In 1938 he became an assistant professor and four years later an associate professor. During the war he directed Yale's Foreign Areas Studies and in 1947 he won a full professorship. His appointment to the presidency, he claims, "came as a complete surprise...
Despite his own hectic undergraduate life, Griswold thinks today's Yale student overemphasizes extra-curricular activities, especially because he generally enters them to prove he's a big shot. "We need to learn to do things for their own sake," Griswold says. He thinks that perhaps student conferences between Harvard and Yale men might be useful to eliminate the "10 to 25 percent margin" between the Harvard student's apathy toward extra-curricular and college life and the Yale man's overzealousness...
...Emphasis tends to be put in extra-curricular activities more or less apart from personal worth or intellectual achievement," says a housemaster. "Success for the sake of success is blowing up an artificial coin. Harvard is a good step above Yale and Princeton in university maturity." President A. Whitney Griswold, who once turned down a Skull and Bones bid to become Wolf's Head, agrees. "We could learn much from Harvard's independence," he says. "But the administration is like a cork floating in a whirlpool. It can't change this tradition...