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...called "How to Capture a University," Beaty charged that "a certain powerful, non-Christian element in our population" was trying to "dominate Southern Methodist University." For one thing, the university's own Southwest Review seemed to be highly susceptible not only to anti-McCarthy authors (e.g., President Henry Wriston of Brown University) but also to B'nai B'rith, which, according to Beaty, "is sometimes referred to as the 'Jewish Gestapo...
...contagious. Once at Riverdale, the pupils of the lower school suddenly broke into a commencement exercise to deliver an unprecedented tribute: "We of the eighth grade want to express our appreciation to Mr. Pusey for giving us our love of literature." "He was without question," says President Henry Wriston of Brown University, then president of Lawrence, "the most brilliant young teacher I have ever known...
...front page story the Herald reporter said that Wriston was changing the system because "the fraternities were anti-intellectual and undemocratic" while Harvard's houses provide "far greater opportunity for intellectual stimulation...
...article quoted Wriston as stating that the new plan would not adopt Harvard's tutorial system because "the cost factor would be prohibitive at least for the next three years...
...paper's editorial opposed Wriston's plan stating that "Harvard is a fine college . . . but Brown should not want to become another Harvard. There may be some elements of anti-intellectualism or snobbishness in the Fraternities but these are rapidly disappearing, and a man can establish almost any kind of social life he desires...