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Last week the corporation made its choice: vigorous, bumper-jawed 43-year-old Yale history Professor Alfred Whitney Griswold. A Yaleman himself (class of '29), Griswold had started out with literary ambitions.* But after a summer stint in a Wall Street brokerage office, he went back to Yale to teach. Since then he has been a witty, popular instructor in the departments of English and history. In 1947 he became one of Yale's youngest full professors, meanwhile turned out a brace of scholarly, readable books (The Far Eastern Policy of the United States, Farming and Democracy...
...announcement, which Griswold said took him by "complete surprise," was delayed until he returned to New Haven from New York today...
...Griswold is a member of the History Department and an expert in Americana; his course on political philosophy in the United States has been among Yale's most popular...
...HAVEN, Feb. 12--Professor Alfred Whitney Griswold was named the 16th president of Yale University by the corporation yesterday. Succeeding Charles Seymour, the new president will take office July...
...appearance of Blanshard at the Forum was contested earlier this week by two alumni of the Law School. One of them, Richard W. Condon, a New York attorney, sent a letter to Dean Griswold in which he referred to Blanshard as a speaker "whose hallmark is the arousing of prejudice against a religious group...