Word: wriston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congressional investigations have not threatened academic freedom, and professors who refuse to cooperate with the investigations should be suspended, Henry M. Wriston, president of Brown University, said last night at a Brown alumni dinner in Boston...
...professor who refuses to answer, the burden of proving his fitness ever to teach again rest squarely upon him," Wriston stated, and added...
...Based on the work of a committee headed by Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold. The other members: Chancellors Arthur Holly Compton of Washington University, Franklin Murphy of the University of Kansas, Presidents J. E. Wallace Sterling of Stanford, Henry Wriston of Brown...
More than one U.S. educator felt he had good reason for fear. "You have today," said President Henry M. Wriston of Brown, "a bullying of the intellectuals of the United States which is intolerable . . . Whenever by slander, by innuendo, by rumor, investigators start to throw mud at the colleges, then every alumnus in every institution of the United States should rise up and say, this has got to stop...
...Brown well knows, this sort of education is expensive. Since there will be no mass lectures or I.B.M.-corrected examinations, Brown figures that its professors will be able to take on only one course at a time. To President Wriston however, the price is not too high. "The great mistake in American education from kindergarten through graduate school," says he, "has been an underestimation of the capacity of students . . . The minds of freshmen need to be awakened [to] a new adventure...