Word: griswold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...author of five books, Griswold received honorary degrees from 12 universities, including Harvard...
Harvard Faculty members reacted with sadness last night to news of President Griswold's death...
Pusey said that Griswold had been a close personal friend, and that it had been a custom for Mr. and Mrs. Griswold to spend Friday night at the Puseys on weekends of the Harvard-Yale football game in Cambridge...
Owen, who taught at Yale when Griswold was a student, called his death "a great blow not only to the Yale community but to American higher education." He recalled him as "a fugitive from the stock market" who returned to Yale after the crash in 1930 to pursue an academic career. "As a university president he revealed all the qualities of imagination and initiative that could have been wished for, and clearly he will be exceedingly difficult to replace," Owen said...
David E. Owen, Master of Winthrop House, and Zeph Stewart, professor of Greek and Latin, both Yale graduates, paid tribute to Griswold as a great president of Yale...