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Bard College Cyrus Eaton, industrialist LL.D. Henry M. Wriston, president emeritus, Brown University LL.D. John Kenneth Galbraith, economist and author LL.D...
...empty beer can rattles through the air over their heads. Gail turns back and smiles, waving at the tottering man who threw it. Another tinkles down the walk. The red and green flag of Phi Kappa Psi looms in sight as the party enters the Wriston Quadrangle, housing the college's 17 fraternities and nine of its dormitories wedged in between them...
...West Quadrangle is really two quadrangles, designed by the same architect who framed the Wriston Quad, but had less money at the time, and so it is much smaller than the former. Finished just this past Fall, it is the stronghold of the independents, and has two large, comfortably furnished lounges, with six smaller ones scattered throughout the building. It has the antiseptic appearance and smell of a hospital, and its brick structure and sparse courtyards make it look like an old geometric oasis in the middle of a broad desert. It has parties...
...blunt Henry Wriston said, "an admirable appointment." A tough-minded scholar with often unattainably high standards, Barney Keeney has long seemed marked for success. At the University of North Carolina he was a star trackman and the top student in his class. After taking his Ph.D. at Harvard, he joined the faculty, was one of the most promising young men in the history department. Then, the day after Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the Army, and because of his fluency in French and German, was eventually assigned to combat intelligence. To those who had known him before, it came...
Though an erudite specialist on the 13th century, Keeney proved early that he was a talented administrator. But more important, he also turned out to be much the same sort of plain-speaker as Henry Wriston. He railed against students who shun controversy for fear of losing some future Government clearance ("If silence is the price of Government service, it is too high a price to pay"), and against scholarly stuffiness ("It must clearly be understood that the scholar does not lose dignity by being intelligible"). He is also a relentless crusader against the growing theory on many U.S. campuses...