Word: wriston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anything is wrong with the nation's seventh oldest college it is its fraternity system. So thinks Brown's president, Henry M. Wriston...
President Henry M. Wriston of Brown thinks students contemplating enlistment should sit tight and wait for a new Selective Service Act. Wriston, in a statement last week, warned that nobody yet knows the terms of the forthcoming draft act; he suggested that both "duty and enlightened selfishness indicate that the student should remain at his books...
...Wriston pointed out that no Brown students had yet been drafted under the present draft law, and that students in good standing would be deferred until June...
Conant spoke for the Committee on the Present Danger. This 25-man group, which began its activities must this week, includes Conant, Presidents James Phinney Baxter, III '14 of Williams and Henry M. Wriston of Brown, William L. Marbury, member of the Harvard Corporation, Vannevar Bush, and Robert Gordon Sproul, Chancellor of the University of California...
...Henry M. Wriston, president of Brown University and a member of the manpower committee, said in a newspaper interview yesterday that he intended to recommend continuation of all intercollegiate sports so long as there are enough men willing to go out for teams...