Word: griswold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is no longer any place in the American university tradition for riots," Griswold said. "Every time one happens it weakens the urgent case American higher education is trying to present to the public...
...recent post mortem evaluation of the Yale riots, A. Whitney Griswold, President of Yale, charged the disturbances with prolonging "the infancy" of American university life...
...After Griswold's statement, Dean von Stade recalled the 1952 Pogo riots at Harvard, and observed, "I can laugh about a lot of things that go on around here, but riots are one exception. Whenever one occurs there is always the danger that someone will get hurt...
This provision, the result of a floor amendment by Senator Mundt passed in the adjournment rush of last August, has occasioned critical letters by Presidents Pusey, Griswold and Goheen along with protests from Bates, Colby and Bowdoin. Support for repeal of the oath has come from the American Association of University Professors and the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Arthur S. Flemming. Unfortunately the chairman of the appropriate House committee, Graham Barden, has announced his firm opposition to repeal of the loyalty oath...
President Griswold also announced this afternoon that he has "launched two separate studies, one in cooperation with Mayor Lee and with other city officials concerning law enforcement policies and procedures, and the other with Yale Deans concerning University procedures...