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...meet the demand for legal education, Erwin N. Griswold Dean of the Law School has proposed an increase of 10,000 students in the nation's law schools. He would do this, not by enlarging the bigger schools like Harvard (which has more than 1,6000 studens), but by an increase in each of the smaller law schools across the country...
...committee, whose formation was announced Tuesday, includes Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Law School; David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences; Samuel Eliot Morison '08, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Emeritus; Don K. Price, Jr., Dean of the Faculty of Public Administration; Archibald Macleish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus; George Cabot Lodge '50, Administrative Assistant to the Director of International Activities for Central American Studies at the Business School; and Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Visiting Professor of Biology...
...good time to be back, for Griswold had just rescued the university from a serious case of postwar doldrums. He more than tripled the endowment to $375 million, built 26 new buildings that gave the neo-Gothic campus a modern look, established research fellowships for young scholars. But the last days of his 13-year tenure were trying ones for Brewster and Yale. Griswold had always been rather distant from all but a few faculty favorites; now he was dying of intestinal cancer, and it fell to Brewster, as provost, to run day-to-day affairs. Yet he had neither...
Revival. After Griswold's death a year ago, the august Yale Corporation took five months methodically screening 160 nominations for the presidency. Brewster was the odds-on choice despite two obstacles: he had no Ph.D., and he had not joined a senior society. But with rare unanimity, faculty and students were plugging for him, and when he was named last October, Yale was overjoyed. The new president, 44 years old, plunged into the job with impressive energy and charm. "We don't know exactly what will happen yet," says Paris-born Georges May, dean of students...
While Brewster's exuberance and shirt-ad good looks quickly made their mark, academic policy changes proceeded more gradually. So far, at least, he is mainly drawing on Griswold's legacy. The rejuvenated graduate school, under Economist John Perry Miller, now offers degrees in 52 fields, including two new Ph.Ds. this year in economic history and industrial administration. Last December, Brewster filled the first endowed chair in Roman Catholic studies in a U.S. secular university by hiring away Catholic University Scholar Stephen Kuttner...