Word: griswold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Griswold can remember when he was a bright young man on the Yale faculty himself. In fact the president of Yale, despite an inexorably retreating hairline, still looks like a History 1 section man. He likes to wear grey flannels, striped ties, button-down shirts, and sport jackets. His speech is flavorsome and devoid of pomposity...
There is one principle of education about which Griswold is already certain, that colleges cannot be both gargantuan and really effective...
...Teaching that gets beyond 50 men in a room is no longer teaching," Griswold says, "it becomes histrionics, entertainment." Yale and Harvard have succumbed to the "curse of bigness," he confesses, but they have done an admirable job of holding the line. "The House system and College system are particularly valuable in this resect. They provide valuable small college intimacy and serve as a brake on larger enrollments since both universities gauge admissions to fit their residential systems...
...best things that has happened to Griswold since he moved into his Woodbridge Hall office in July was a million dollar gift Yale got last month to finance research fellowships for young scholars in the humanities. The fellowship plan will permit bright young men on the Yale faculty to leave their teaching posts and write for a year without any reduction in salary. Griswold is convinced that rearch is essential to good teaching. "I see no fundamental conflict between the two, as those who carelessly use the phrase 'publish or perish' seem to. You become mellow, pipe-smoking, and tweedy...
...graduate of Yale in 1929, Griswold had an undergraduate career guaranteed to earn the respect of the most extra-curricular minded Yale man. He was noted as the class wit; condemned Phi Beta Kappa for luring muscularly competent men form athletics and making "nifties" of them; was acting chairman and later managing editor of the Yale Record; wrote a column for the Yale Daily News; and was a member of the Elizabethan Club, the Pundits, Psi Upsilon, and Wolf's Head, a secret society...