Word: griswold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, a number of men have already completed the program since it was put into effect in 1940. The first man to do so was Ronald E. Shaine, LL.B. '44. Others include Charles O. Porter, LL.B. '44 (1947), and Jerome Rappeport, LL.B. '48. Erwin N. Griswold Dean, Harvard Law School
...decision will be appealed on October 30 with Dean Griswold acting as counsel for Hastings, and Archibald Cox, professor of Law, representing Byrnes...
...midst, the notables marched into the vaulted auditorium of Woolsey Hall and there, as Yalemen had done at the opening of the first college building, they sang an old metrical version of the 65th Psalm ("Thy praise alone, O Lord, doth reign / in Sion Thine own hill . . ."). Then Whitney Griswold, wearing around his neck the "president's collar" of 20 gold & silver links and a pendant medallion with the arms of Elihu Yale, received the charter, the seal, and the keys of the university "to cherish and defend." Finally, in the tradition of his predecessors, he stepped...
What must a scholar and his university do "in times like these?" Above all, said President Griswold, they must continue to be what they have been. "I do not know who first questioned the [practical] value of the scholar's life; it may have been one of Socrates' disciples who watched his master drink the hemlock. Surely no calling has been so much questioned-and despaired of-since that memorable event; and just as surely none has contributed so much to western civilization . . . [Yet] to whom else do we pin our hopes of ending our periodic reversions...
...arts . . . with the pursuit of higher education in special fields . . . Thus they both deepened and broadened the higher learning." In a free society, the deepening and broadening cannot stop, no matter what the times. "These are the things Yale lives and works for, in war and peace," said President Griswold. "They are things to cherish and defend in times of war; to fight for, when there is fighting; and to return to when the fighting is over...