Word: griswold
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Plans for the Chair and the establishment of a committee to raise the money were announced Saturday by Erwin N. Griswold. Dean of the Law School, and Carlyle E. Maw, chairman of the Harvard Law School Fund...
...school was deep in the red, and Griswold smoothly made himself a crack fund raiser. He more than tripled endowment to $375 million, launched a $69.5 million capital-funds campaign, put $75 million into 26 new buildings, gave Gothic Yale a bold new look with daring designs by Eero Saarinen and other top modern architects. To emphasize liberal education, Griswold gave Yale College control of all 4,000-odd undergraduates, including the once separatist engineering students. To spur Yale scholars, he set up research fellowships for young teachers, more than doubled faculty salaries; top professors...
...world beyond New Haven knew Whitney Griswold best for his cool-headed defenses of scholarly values. "Books won't stay banned," he warned in McCarthy-era 1952. "Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost." Yet he supported the theory that duty required teachers to cooperate with congressional investigators even if the "powers of legislative inquiry are abused." He blasted athletic scholarships, "the greatest swindle ever perpetrated on American youth," bulled through the simon-pure code that now governs Ivy League football. He fought to repeal...
Such reforms brought new vitality to a university not noted for change in the past. To Whitney Griswold, education was "Madison and Jefferson talking to each other about everything under the sun." He acknowledged lofty achievements in other great universities, but he candidly said of Yale: "We can conscientiously believe that there is none better...
Died. Alfred Whitney Griswold, 56, 16th president of Yale University, witty critic and wise champion of U.S. liberal arts education; of cancer; in New Haven (see EDUCATION...