Word: wriston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Henry M. Wriston, Brown president, said he recalled "no such vote, and I've been to those meetings...
Referring to Brown's 17 nationally affiliated chapters. Wriston last May called them "one of our most conspicuous negative elements" which nothing can save "If they continue to be so stupid as to defeat the purpose of the University...
...Wriston states unequivocally that he has no intention of abolishing the societies and that his sole aim is to improve them, but many fraternity men are not so sure...
...intellectual grounds that the Greek letter societies have provoked Wriston's sharpest criticism. Except for one semester, the scholastic averages of fraternity men have consistently fallen below the all-college averages...
With the student's cooperation, Wriston thinks, the new residential quadrangle can bring about an "intellectual revolution on the Brown campus." The greater centralization afforded by the project will, Wriston hopes, create a more unified college...