Word: griswold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This hope for wider intellectual leadership permeates all of Yale's projects under Griswold and is what gives them more than just a defensive tone. But for all their vigor, Yale's building projects in the college would ultimately mean little without plans to make good use of the buildings...
Last spring, President Griswold presented a plan which would increase the intellectual demands made on the students while giving them much greater freedom. The plan emphasized long-range learning with syllabi readings to prepare the student for general exams at the end of the year, much like the famous Hutchins plan at the University of Chicago. Only weekly discussion classes would be compulsory and students would hear what lectures they selected, with the aid of an adviser, as most valuable...
Most of the proposals were rejected by the Course of Study Committee as too radical for the present character of student motivation, the makeup of the faculty, and the University's financial state. Nonetheless, the committee submitted a report, approved later by the faculty, which called for many of Griswold's specific recommendations: a two-year reading list, auditing lectures suggested by advisers, and a senior essay project climaxed by oral and written examination as well as a now Divisional Honors program for outstanding scholars...
...increase in faculty salaries last year just covered by a $200 tuition hike indicates Yale's interest in increasing the quality in its faculty as well as its faculty-student ratio. In these moves, University policy makes a start at the removal of the second objection to Griswold's original plan, i.e., the make-up of the faculty...
Yale might not believe that it can afford indefinite expansion, but it seems to have faith in its ability to raise enough money to create Griswold's Athens. Speaking in October at the banquet which launched the Yale Alumni Fund drive for 1955-56, alumnus Irving S. Olds, former chairman of the board of the U.S. Steel Corporation, gave statistics which indicated, he said, that great potential sources of funds have barely been tapped...