Word: wriston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generation born in depression, weaned on world war, and greeted, at 18, with a conscription number, President Henry M. Wriston of Brown University offered some stern guidance...
President Conant will introduce Kenneth C.M. Sills, president of Bowdoin, who will moderate a symposium to be held after the meal. Participating in the discussion will be James P. Baxter III '14 of Williams, Henry M. Wriston of Brown, and Leonard Carmichael of Tufts-all alumni of University graduate schools...
...main theme of the discussion will center about the "Popularity of Scholarship." Baxter, former master of Adams House, will speak on the "Role of Science," while Carmichael will discuss "Leadership of the Free Society." "College Teaching" will be analyzed by Wriston in his talk...
...fact is that federal money has already entered the field. As Brown's President Wriston has warned, "federalization of American higher education is coming by drift [if] not by design," whether educators approve of it or not. Such federalization is taking the form, no longer of a G.I. bill, but of $100 million worth of research contracts. "It is a matter for deep concern," says Wriston, "that already . . some independent, private institutions are (directly or indirectly) drawing half or more of their revenues from federal sources...
Four college presidents will participate in a symposium on Tuesday evening after a dinner at Dunster House for the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research. All four Kenneth Sills of Bowdoin, James P. Baxter of Williams, Henry M. Wriston of Brown, and Leonard Carmichael of Tufts are graduates of the University's Graduate Schools...