Word: wriston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Henry W. Wriston, president of Brown University, defended American colleges against the charge of being Communist-dominated before over 100 college and industrial leaders at a luncheon yesterday in the Hotel Statler, Boston...
...Henry Wriston, president of Brown said yesterday, "We think it's a good move. We're all getting multiple applica- tions since the College Board changed its rule. We all have slightly different ways of calculating financial need but with all these applications, we need a co-operative arrangement to set need. "And it also is hard on the applicant with a different set of forms from everyone...
Last week, as they started their higher education, the nation's freshmen got some counsel from three college presidents: ¶ Go slow, warned Brown's Dr. Henry M. Wriston, in choosing a vocation. "At your age," Wriston said, "worry about how you are going to make your living leads to impulsive selections . . . Premature choices tend to lead you into, and freeze you in, occupations which will be inadequately rewarding spiritually, which may curb mental enjoyment." Most men in middle life are bored with their jobs because they "selected their vocation in a search for security instead of adventure...
...Buck's citation, President Henry M. Wriston said...
When he announced plans for revamping the curriculum in January, Brown's president Henry M. Wriston charged that "most textbooks are hardly worth reading. If they are not barren of ideas, they are impoverished in that respect. The minds of freshmen need to be awakened to a new adventure. The great mistake in American education from kindergarten through graduate school has been an underestimation of the capacity of students...