Word: griswold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HAVEN, Oct, 6--A. Whitney Griswold officially became the sixteenth president of Yale at a simple ceremony yesterday...
...inaugural address, former history professor Griswold dwelt mostly on his favorite theme--that society owes to each individual the fullest amount of education he is capable of absorbing. The aim of such education is not just intellection competence but rather the preparation of people as responsible citizens...
...nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be," Griswold said, quoting his favorite hero of history, Thomas Jefferson...
Commenting further on the crucial value of education, Griswold said, "If scholars should wait of total war to produce total peace, I doubt that our successors will be assembled here to mark Yale's three hundredth anniversary." Yale was founded...
Provost Buck and Dean Griswold will speak at this afternoon's ceremonies, which begin at 4 p.m. on the Graduate Center grounds, Designer Water Gropius, Professor of Architecture, will also talk, as will John B. Marsh '03, president of the Law School Fund, and Malcolm Pirnie '10, chairman of the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research, the alumni organization of the Graduate Schools of Arts of Sciences, Education, Design, and Public Administration...