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Yale's Ralph Henry Gabriel, 68. Sterling Professor of History, and deveoper in 1931 of a pioneer course in American thought and civilization. To such students as A. Whitney Griswold. now Yale's president, Gabriel presented a systematic, thought-prodding evaluation of the history of ideas in the U.S. Writing summers in a shack in the New Hampshire woods, he has filled a shelf with basic texts in American history, including his widely read The Course of American Democratic Thought. He lit few Roman candles while lecturing, nevertheless attracted up to 400 students to his classes...
...Scotty as editor. Their recent differences seem more pointed and more specific. Though Krock never mentions Reston by name in his critiques, there can be no doubt of his target. Items: ¶ Last week Reston cited in glowing terms the "serious and thoughtful" commencement address of Yale President Whitney Griswold, who said that "we have had enough of the pious cant that says the Sputniks were a good thing because they will wake us up. This is worse than making a virtue of necessity. It is making a virtue of disaster." Next...
Krock shrugged off Griswold's speech as unclear, pointedly reversed Reston-Griswold's own rhetoric to declare that "disaster can at least be invested with the virtue of awakening the sleeper to his peril." ¶When Reston said De Gaulle's ascension to power in France so threatened the U.S.'s European policy that "even the modest gains of the past are now in jeopardy," Krock clucked that this sort of "anxious disapproval" was being expressed "largely by some currently displaced foreign policy-makers of the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations," tartly added that "these American...
...filing the $3,000,000 damage suit against Griswold and Harvard University, Puente had charged that the Law School Bulletin of February 1955 had published some of his ideas, crediting them to William Sprague Barnes, Assistant Dean of the Law School...
Puente's Attorney charged that his client had related his plans for a foreign tax service to Griswold in a private conversation, and that their subsequent publication in the Law School Bulletin had caused Puente to suffer financial losses on his own tax volumes...