Word: griswold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kingman Brewster, Jr., was officially named the seventeenth president of Yale University by a vote of the Yale Corporation Saturday morning. The announcement ended a five-month search for a successor to A. Whitney Griswold, who died on April...
...former professor at the Harvard Law School, Brewster had been serving as acting president since Griswold's death. He had been Provost of Yale since...
...been considered the leading candidate for the presidency of Yale since Griswold's death, but as the Corporation took more and more time in its search for a new president, observers began to speculate that Brewster had also lost support. When he refused to allow Alabama's Gov. George Wallace to appear at Yale, then reversed himself and announced that he would permit Wallace to speak...
...Dean Griswold refused to comment on the case. Griswold, after talking with Wallace, called the case to the attention of the Lawyers Committee on Civil Rights, Inc., according to Bernard G. Segal, co-chairman of the Committee. The group, in turn, has retained George M. Allen, former president of the Richmond Bar Association, as counsel for Wallace...
...Dean Griswold has written a personal letter of recommendation to the judge in the case, stating that Wallace has a fine reputation in the Law School. In addition to this action, the students, under Kiets's direction, have organized a fund drive within the Law School to help pay Wallace's expenses...