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...become a more exciting place during his four-year tenure, you give too much direct credit to him for some innovations. The decision to eliminate the B.E. degree and replace the engineering school with a department of engineering and applied science was taken during the last years of President Griswold's administration, though it was in large part implemented after his death. The equally new idea of permitting undergraduates a wider choice of courses outside their major field evolved after several months of study by the undergraduate course-of-study committee, of which I was then a member...
Before the start of his freshman year at Yale, Brewster asked advice on courses and teachers from a Martha's Vineyard neighbor, Yale History Professor A. Whitney Griswold. It was the start of a long friendship that grew closer when Brewster became chairman of the Yale Daily News, found Griswold a stimulating source of information about the university and a spirited conversationalist on politics. "We had a common sense of the ridiculous and the absurd," Brewster says...
Brewster had been promoted to full professor at Harvard and was serving on top faculty committees when his longtime friend, Whit Griswold, by then president of Yale, asked him to become his provost. Although he had no Ph.D. and no administrative experience, he quickly accepted. His acceptance was dictated partly by his admiration for Griswold and his affection for Yale. It was also, he recalls, "a decision you make at 40 to find out what you're good at." Brewster turned out to be so good at the job that the Yale Corporation promoted him to the presidency when...
Fresh Talent, Fresh Ideas. Even fond admirers of Griswold are now willing to concede that Yale during the postwar years did not always live up to its reputation, tended to tolerate aristocratic old-timers at the expense of first-rate professional scholarship. Convinced that Yale...
...student-faculty committee has since acted rarely as the initiating force for change. It has taken up the issues suggested to it, and passed these on with recommendations for action to the appropriate faculty committees. The joint group was instrumental in eliciting Dean Griswold's public statement against discriminatory hiring practices in February of this year. The committee also approvide the plan for a one-week reading period for first-year students, and supported the Curriculum Committee's recommendation that all second-year course requirements be abolished. It issued its own plan for reform of the Honoraries which met with...