Word: wriston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most practical solution appeared to be abolition of the entire fraternity system in favor of a modified House System, modeled along the lines of those at Harvard and Yale. But under pressure from fraternity-oriented Henry M. Wriston, then president of Brown and himself no radical reformer, worked out a compromise. The resulting Plan," which is still in effect at Brown, envisaged a revitalization of academic and social life fraternity members and students by bringing them together in a residential quadrangle which would incorporate fraternities, independent houses, and a huge central dining hall...
WHEN the first in the new Wriston Quadrangle was built, a Brown professor declared jubilantly that "Fraternity life has been incorporated University life, and in the process of assimilation the two have inevitably come closer together by 1961, after ten years of "separation but not really" under the Wriston Plan, many students have come to realize that the new residential system has perhaps created more problems than it has solved...
Brown University President Emeritus Henry M. Wriston, 71, a lifelong group-think catalyst who in 1954 chaired the Secretary of State's Public Committee on Personnel, last year headed President Eisenhower's blue-ribbon Commission on National Goals, and is currently president of the goals commission's administering body, the American Assembly, returned to Brown to keynote an undergraduate conference. His opening gambit: "No one in his right mind should look to a committee to produce new ideas...
...that must always accompany such projects. If businessmen, professional men, and scholars do not have some well-defined purpose to fulfill (as do, say, the members of the American Assembly in their conferences at Arden House), they are useless as an aggregate of truth-seekers. The committee that Henry Wriston has chaired for the last year had no such purpose; it was a committee on goals that had the distasteful task of operating completely without them...
Thus the President's Commission on National Goals this week put a challenge to the U.S. in the bluntest terms to come out of an official document in the Eisenhower Administration. Established by President Eisenhower last February, the commission, headed by Henry M. Wriston, president-emeritus of Brown University,† had as its charter the development of a "broad outline of national objectives and programs for the next decade and longer." The Wriston Report not only fulfills that requirement but details some hard specifics and boldface imperatives. Items...