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...pessimistic, however, about the future of the plan. He admitted that his efforts to bring the matter to the attention of President Griswold had met with a somewhat less than enthusiastic response. "I expect this idea," he lamented, "to suffer the fate of many such ideas when confronted with the conservatism of the administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Yale Exchange Program Suggested by Professor at Yale | 3/19/1957 | See Source »

...overwhelming number of Yale students still take the ordinary course system, modified as it is by some General Education ideas of President A. Whitney Griswold. But there are programs which permit individuals of proven ability to work with increased degrees of independence and responsibility...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: The Grading System: Its Defects Are Many | 3/12/1957 | See Source »

Yale uses these forms of independent study to work for realization of President A. Whitney Griswold's hope that "just as democracy puts the fulfillment of opportunity up to its citizens, the new Yale College program puts the fulfillment of opportunity up to its students." The Scholar of the House program goes further, but both support Griswold's idea that for "the student of unusual maturity and ability... nothing short of maximum challenge will evoke a maximum response...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: The Grading System: Its Defects Are Many | 3/12/1957 | See Source »

...three of Ivyland gathered at Princeton to hail the university's retiring President Harold W. Dodds, 67. Two other famed prexies, Harvard's Dr. Nathan M. Pusey and Yale's Dr. A. Whitney Griswold came to honor Dodds with solemn praise, but the occasion also had its mortarboard merriment. Spoofing Princeton's miasmic weather of yore, Yale's Griswold asserted that four Princeton presidents had expired within five years back in the 1700s. Then he quoted from a letter, hopefully quilled by Princeton's trustees to a presidential prospect in 1766. The missive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Mechem announced the appointment of Griswold to the Association's Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure. Other committee appointments include: Louis A. Teopfer, Director of Law School Admissions, Committee on Pre-Legal Education; Harold J. Berman, professor of Law, Committee on Teaching Law in Liberal Arts Curriculum; and Philip A. Putnam, Assistant Librarian, Committee on Cooperation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Griswold Elected | 3/1/1957 | See Source »

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