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Provost Kingman Brewster, Jr. will serve as head of Yale until a new president is appointed, the Yale Corporation announced today. Brewster, who has been administrating the university during Griswold's illness, is considered here to be a likely candidate to succeed the late president...
...Griswold's intimate friends had known for some time that he was suffering from incurable cancer, but, though hospitalized several times this fall, he refused to release any definite information on the nature of his illness...
...When Griswold assumed the presidency in 1950 the Yale Daily News complained that "this great university is tired." In a special extra today the News warmly praised the changes Griswold had worked at Yale, calling him "one of the greatest, if not the greatest, president in the university's history...
...most observers here the great tragedy of Griswold's death is the fact that he was just beginning to implement the major policy statement of his administration--last year's freshman--year report. In that far-reaching document, Griswold urged the university to increase its efforts to eliminate the anti-intellectualism which prevailed at the school at the start of his presidency. He called for stiffer admissions procedures, the integration of freshmen into the Colleges, and the admission of women to the college...
Graduating from Yale in 1929, Griswold was made a full professor of history in 1941 at the age of 40. When elected president nine years later, he was the second-youngest man ever to fill the post...