Word: griswold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like Yale better than we do Harvard. Otherwise we would have gone to Harvard and liked it better than Yale"), and under the names of Sancho Panza and Guy Fawkes, some light light verse for the News ("Ruddy-fased the peepul go, Up to Plasid for the sno . . ."). Griswold's ambition in life: to be a writer...
Though he did not know it at the time, he was already in the racket. That very morning the Corporation had met and picked Whitney Griswold to be Yale's 16th president. "Pull up your socks, boy, and get on with it," Dean Acheson told him. With some misgivings, Griswold...
...Griswold wrote a theme song-"Some Insolvent Evening." He took a slogan from a mayonnaise jar-"Keep cool but do not freeze." Gradually, his life began to settle itself into a pattern...
...honorary member"). And on his way to his office in Woodbridge Hall, he would still stop now & then to level his Leica, snap a camera shot of a student, a building or a professor. But once in his office, seated at his 18th Century slant-top desk, Whitney Griswold proved he knows how to govern...
...Everything Under the Sun." To Whitney Griswold, education is essentially "Madison and Jefferson talking to each other about everything under the sun." Today at Yale, scholars who have not talked to each other for years are beginning to communicate at last. The talk goes on in every classroom, in every corner of the campus. It is Yale's answer to the long, arid years of schizophrenia and specialization, to such critics as Abraham Flexner, who denounced U.S. education as "atomistic," and Robert Hutchins, who dubbed it "disunity, discord and disorder...