Word: griswold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through Harvard Law School, became a professor in it, and was talked about as a possible future dean. It was while he was vacationing on Martha's Vineyard with his wife and five children that Mother Yale beckoned. Sailing and walking the beaches with Yale President A. Whitney Griswold, he became a close friend over the years, and Griswold lured him back to New Haven in 1960 to become provost...
...good time to be back, for Griswold had just rescued the university from a serious case of postwar doldrums. He more than tripled the endowment to $375 million, built 26 new buildings that gave the neo-Gothic campus a modern look, established research fellowships for young scholars. But the last days of his 13-year tenure were trying ones for Brewster and Yale. Griswold had always been rather distant from all but a few faculty favorites; now he was dying of intestinal cancer, and it fell to Brewster, as provost, to run day-to-day affairs. Yet he had neither...
Revival. After Griswold's death a year ago, the august Yale Corporation took five months methodically screening 160 nominations for the presidency. Brewster was the odds-on choice despite two obstacles: he had no Ph.D., and he had not joined a senior society. But with rare unanimity, faculty and students were plugging for him, and when he was named last October, Yale was overjoyed. The new president, 44 years old, plunged into the job with impressive energy and charm. "We don't know exactly what will happen yet," says Paris-born Georges May, dean of students...
Brewster, who had served as Yale's provost under A. Whitney Griswold, insisted in his inaugural address that private universities must remain independent of both government and private business and suggested the formation of a "Peace Reserve Training Corps" on the model of existing ROTC programs...
Humor persisted. Dean Eriwn N. Griswold of the Law School, the first speaker, who announced that he was going to exhaust the topic, explained that lawyers as individual citizens are active in social reform and that the bar associations are often involved in legal reform...