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LEADERS must know what their people are thinking. If France's Charles de Gaulle or Columbia's Grayson Kirk had followed that simple rule, they might have saved themselves a lot of grief. Therein lies the chief justification for opinion polls. Yet there is also something vaguely troubling about the polls, those incessant readings of the U.S. voter's psyche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: DO POLLS HELP DEMOCRACY? | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

...spite of President Grayson Kirk's repeated references in public statements to a "small minority of 17,500 students in the university," the strike has a wide base in the undergraduate college...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Columbia Strike Might Continue Into September | 5/27/1968 | See Source »

...Joint Committee on Disciplinary Affairs (consisting of seven faculty members, seven students, and three administrators) is very angry at Kirk for suspending over one hundred students automatically for participating in the last sit-in. His action goes directly against their agreement on their sovereignty in disciplinary action...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Columbia Strike Might Continue Into September | 5/27/1968 | See Source »

...most refreshing remark heard in this day of university presidents meekly compromising with "student power" was that of Dr. Grayson Kirk, president of Columbia University, who when responding to the question, "Aren't the older generation at fault in the generation gap?" said, "Yes, for allowing young people to reach adulthood without respect for law except those that please them." It is sad that we don't have more such administrators to face these insolent youngsters. Parents of such students should let them go to work to support themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 24, 1968 | 5/24/1968 | See Source »

...supply experts-usually professors on leave of absence-to work on specific projects. Despite all the fuss at Columbia over IDA, none of its professors are actually on the IDA payroll, although about 300 have signed up to serve when needed as part-time consultants. Columbia President Grayson Kirk and Columbia Trustee William Burden serve on IDA's executive committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: What Is the IDA? | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

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