Word: griswold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before the start of his freshman year at Yale, Brewster asked advice on courses and teachers from a Martha's Vineyard neighbor, Yale History Professor A. Whitney Griswold. It was the start of a long friendship that grew closer when Brewster became chairman of the Yale Daily News, found Griswold a stimulating source of information about the university and a spirited conversationalist on politics. "We had a common sense of the ridiculous and the absurd," Brewster says...
Student agitators for reform at the Harvard Law School found too that the law faculty was not only willing to provide them with a channel for their complaints, but was far less hostile to specific reforms than the students might have suspected. In November of 1966, Dean Griswold appointed twelve members to a joint student-faculty committee to discuss all issues of student complaint. Independent agitation for such a committee had come from individual students, from Professor Clark Byse who used these students as his allies to start the faculty moving toward reform...
Many students were immediately suspicious of the joint committee and feared that it would serve only to thwart more radical student action. But Dean Griswold selected as members just those students who had expressed greatest interest in instituting changes, and designated Clark Byse their Chairman...
...student-faculty committee has since acted rarely as the initiating force for change. It has taken up the issues suggested to it, and passed these on with recommendations for action to the appropriate faculty committees. The joint group was instrumental in eliciting Dean Griswold's public statement against discriminatory hiring practices in February of this year. The committee also approvide the plan for a one-week reading period for first-year students, and supported the Curriculum Committee's recommendation that all second-year course requirements be abolished. It issued its own plan for reform of the Honoraries which met with...
...member of the Press's Board of Directors, the body which controls the Press finances. Its ex officio chairman is L. Gard Wiggins, administrative vice president. Other members are George Pierce Baker, '25, Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration; Merle Fainsod, Director of the University Library; Erwin N. Griswold. Dean of the Faculty of Law: Edward S. Mason, Lamont University Professor; and Donald Scott, Peabody Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Emeritus. The Board members are appointed by the President and Fellows of the University, and their distinction is a measure of Harvard's acceptance of the Press...