Word: griswold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take part in the $30 million Federal Student Loan Program, and to many others who participate unhappily. When Harvard and Yale recently quit in protest (TIME, Nov. 30), they declared that the "disclaimer affidavit" is i) superfluous and 2) discriminating against students. Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold called the affidavit reminiscent of "the oppressive religious and political test oaths of history, which were used as a means of exercising control over the educational process by church or state...
While no time schedule has been announced, instructions to bidders state that they must submit estimates by Dec. 23, and aim for completion within a year. The four-story building was designed by the firm of Griswold, Boyden, Wylde & Ames with speed and inexpensiveness of construction uppermost in mind, according in Henry J. Muller, Deputy Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds...
Harvard's President Nathan M. Pusey called it "misguided, discriminatory, superfluous, ineffective, futile." Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold forcefully agreed; so did Oberlin College's President William E. Stevenson. Object of their ire: the "disclaimer affidavit" in the loyalty provision of the federal Student Loan Program. Last week, joining at least 13 other colleges and universities, Harvard, Yale and Oberlin quit the loan program. Between them, they turned back about $476,000 in federal funds...
...years to discourage sympathetic observers. A while back, Yalies were forced to wear ties during meals, a measure equivalent to giving waist coats to Hottentots. Then last year the students were put on probation after a bit of restlessness in the streets. Just two weeks ago, President A. Whitney Griswold returned to the classroom to teach a class and muffed the word "epistemology" (misdefined it, not misspelled it). Yale's friends all over cannot but ask themselves, "Is the old school slipping...
...Corporation voted yesterday to reject the $357,873 of Federal funds assigned to Harvard under the Student Loan Program of the National Defense Education Act. In a parallel move, President A. Whitney Griswold announced that Yale University was also withdrawing in protest from the loan program...