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...whether the new plans will really be a triumph is still a question mark. As President Henry M. Wriston puts it, "That's like asking whether a six month old baby is going to be president of the United States...
...Wriston era--now 17 years strong--started in 1937 when the balding former Lawrence College president came to Brown. Behind him in Appleton, Wisconsin he left today's youngest educational leader, Nathan Pusey. Together they had pampered Pusey's sophomore tutorial into the outstanding feature of the Lawrence curriculum. Though Wriston moved to bigger things, leaving Pusey as his eventual successor, the now Brown president never forgot the Lawrence tutorial. A modified program came to Brown and this fall is the controversial part of the curriculum...
...weakness of a university has always been its first two years," Wriston states. "Now with two "IC" courses required in every field we may have the problem licked...
...another way, President Wriston calls this study of books and ideas "the shock we needed around here." The president, who doesn't believe students can be given too much work, is delighted the plan is giving sophomores and freshmen a rough time...
Behind the "IC's" early success lie years of planning, Wriston has envisaged an integrated building and academic program. Acting on the theory that keen thinking and comfortable living go hand in hand he instigated the "Quadrangle" idea. "The quad is not just building per se, it's really studying and living all rolled in one," the president explains...