Word: griswold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale Law has in a sense retreated from its advanced position on the legal battlefield, Harvard has discarded some of its nineteenth century armor for modern, imaginative weapons--weapons resembling Yale's former revolutionary doctrines. Dean Erwin Griswold jokingly says, "Yale talks about it; we do it." As he told the entering class in 1954, law "has deep roots in the past. It presents a continuity of development which must be understood if the law of the present is to be mastered. But it also has a flexibility, a capability for growth and development, which is as much a part...
Dean of the Law School Erwin N. Griswold also expressed satisfaction at the nomination. "I'm glad to say it is an excellent choice. Judge Harlan is extremely well-qualified for the position...
...Erwin Griswold should be put on the Court," Howe stated, referring to the head of the Harvard Law School, "but he won't be. Ike will go along with some safe elderly statesman...
...year history, it has turned out such alumni as Poet Archibald MacLeish, Yale President Whitney Griswold, former New Jersey Governor Charles Edison, Henry Ford II. Today, over its 480-acre Georgian campus, its 353 students still pursue their education with an intensity most any school would envy. It takes in boys of every race and religion, makes them clean their own rooms and wait on table. But more important than its disciplined democracy is the quality of its intellectual fare. The boys are taken up through calculus and analytic geometry, read everything from the Iliad (in Greek) to Racine...
President A. Whitney Griswold has said, however, that "faculty salaries and tuition go hand in hand, and every Yale parent must expect to pay for the quality of instruction that his or her son receives here...