Word: griswold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overwhelming number of Yale students still take the ordinary course system, modified as it is by some General Education ideas of President A. Whitney Griswold. But there are programs which permit individuals of proven ability to work with increased degrees of independence and responsibility...
Yale uses these forms of independent study to work for realization of President A. Whitney Griswold's hope that "just as democracy puts the fulfillment of opportunity up to its citizens, the new Yale College program puts the fulfillment of opportunity up to its students." The Scholar of the House program goes further, but both support Griswold's idea that for "the student of unusual maturity and ability... nothing short of maximum challenge will evoke a maximum response...
...three of Ivyland gathered at Princeton to hail the university's retiring President Harold W. Dodds, 67. Two other famed prexies, Harvard's Dr. Nathan M. Pusey and Yale's Dr. A. Whitney Griswold came to honor Dodds with solemn praise, but the occasion also had its mortarboard merriment. Spoofing Princeton's miasmic weather of yore, Yale's Griswold asserted that four Princeton presidents had expired within five years back in the 1700s. Then he quoted from a letter, hopefully quilled by Princeton's trustees to a presidential prospect in 1766. The missive...
...Erwin N. Griswold, dean of the Law School, was elected president-elect of the Association of American Law Schools at its recent annual meeting in Chicago. The Association elected Philip Mechem '15 president...
Mechem announced the appointment of Griswold to the Association's Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure. Other committee appointments include: Louis A. Teopfer, Director of Law School Admissions, Committee on Pre-Legal Education; Harold J. Berman, professor of Law, Committee on Teaching Law in Liberal Arts Curriculum; and Philip A. Putnam, Assistant Librarian, Committee on Cooperation...