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...Griswold Aloof...
...proposal in Yale education in the past three decades, the Yale faculty is for the most part a strangely silent group. Few professors comment in writing either way: if interviewed, they hastily mutter generalizations rather than specific suggestions. The reason for this is the strange circumstance surrounding the report. Griswold was on the committee, he wrote part of it, and despite a heavy silence from the president's house, the report is to a large degree a test of Griswold's power. Although he steadfastly refuses to push the plans, although he withholds all comment to reporters, although he will...
That is why Griswold is staying as far removed as possible. That is why most faculty members will not talk for publication. That is why many of those who do preface their remarks with little generalities, praising the committee, praising Griswold, praising the report, praising Yale...
Bitterly opposed as some faculty members probably are, few will ever be able to organize openly against the President of Yale University. And if the Griswold report is to be defeated, it will take an outspoken group of respected professors to organize a movement. In the meantime, professors are reluctant to commit themselves; they would prefer to find out exactly which way opinion is going...
Certain problems and failings of present-day Yale caused the report. Griswold and his committee saw Yale struggling against many problems; "enormous diversity in the background, motivation and previous training of the students. As Yale has become a national university," they wrote, "it has inevitably had to cope with an increasing range of standards of college preparation." At the same time according to the report, Yale has been faced with the necessity of teaching basic non-college work on one hand-remedial English, elementary languages, and elementary mathematics--and to include training programs like ROTC on the other. "Even...