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...member of the Brown community looks with interest but not envy at the larger, tradition-rich members of the Ivy group. He notes their strengths and weaknesses, forgets them, and talks of achievement and advances at his University. Since he assumed the presidency at Brown in 1937, Henry M. Wriston has insisted emphatically, "institutions are like individuals; they are all different. There is a tendency to think that because we are different, we are wrong." At Brown, there is a tendency to think that Brown is different and Brown is right...
...glad, unquestioning hand marks Brown's social attitude, it is with integrity and experimental dedication that it approaches its curriculum. Almost unheralded, President Wriston introduced in January, 1953, a set of courses in the Identification and Criticism of Ideas, which he calls, "the exciting thing in education in America today...
...they serve both as introductory and terminal studies in each field included in the program. Not to be confused with the University of Chicago's or St. Johns' Great Books courses, they are uniquely Brown's. "This is strictly a Brown experiment, and being such, it is unexportable," says Wriston. "For this reason, we have given it no publicity...
These words, from the report on the Foreign Service made by the Wriston committee last spring, were part of a grave warning to the Administration. The Committee was appointed by the Secretary of State to discover why, in an era when the nation's diplomatic commitments are ever increasing, its diplomatic corps appears less and less capable of doing an effective job. To emphasize the importance of the committee's findings, its membership was composed of some of America's most distinguished public servants, diplomats, businessmen and educators. Presumably, the Administration intended to act on the recommendations of the group...
...nation's universities is a foregone conclusion: at a time when the need for capable experts is greater than ever, few undergraduates even consider the Government as a career. If such senselessness continues, the result will be a Foreign Service of trained seals--and this, as the Wriston report continues, "at an hour when everywhere across the world matters press upon the American interest for judgment, decision, and action...