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...agonizing partly because it was the first he had ever written. At 44, Whitney Griswold was just completing his freshman year as a university president. But for any president, Yale's 1951 commencement would be something out of the ordinary. Next week, as Griswold dons his academic robe and the gold chain of office, to accompany the solemn commencement procession on its traditional path from the campus to the New Haven Green and back again, he will also be marking Yale's 250th anniversary year...
There will be no special celebration this June to commemorate the occasion. But scholarly, debonair Whitney Griswold might well stand in awe of his responsibility. By virtue of his office as 16th president of Yale, he has become automatically one of the top educational statesmen in the U.S., the head of one of the world's dozen ranking universities, the custodian of a great tradition. The university which grew from the little school founded 250 years ago in a farmhouse at Branford, Conn, descends in a direct line from such ancient seats of learning as the University of Paris...
Today the return to the teaching of universal knowledge is well under way, and nowhere is it more visible than in the Yale of Whitney Griswold. It could be seen in its most obvious way in the breadth and depth of Yale's imposing facilities-topflight schools of law, medicine, divinity; the nation's oldest forestry school; the world's second largest university library (next to Harvard's). It could be seen more clearly still in Yale's whole interlocking curriculum, where political scientists and psychiatrists teach in the law school, physicists rub elbows with...
...during the age of Angell that a freshman named Whitney Griswold moved into the old freshman Oval. He had come from Morristown, N.J., with generations of Yalemen behind him, the son of a New York insurance broker who would leave for work in Manhattan each morning before daylight and return home each night after dark (his paternal advice: "Don't commute!"). By the time young Whitney got to Yale, his education consisted of eight years at a small private school, followed by four years at Hotchkiss, in Lakeville, Conn...
...like Yale better than we do Harvard. Otherwise we would have gone to Harvard and liked it better than Yale"), and under the names of Sancho Panza and Guy Fawkes, some light light verse for the News ("Ruddy-fased the peepul go, Up to Plasid for the sno . . ."). Griswold's ambition in life: to be a writer...