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...Henry W. Wriston, president of Brown University, defended American colleges against the charge of being Communist-dominated before over 100 college and industrial leaders at a luncheon yesterday in the Hotel Statler, Boston...
...presidents of 20 New England colleges were among the audience that heard Wriston stress the fact that only a small minority of "ill-adjusted, disappointed or just naive" students and professors "always fair game for the Fascists or Communists," are in fact Communist-dominated...
...Henry Wriston, president of Brown said yesterday, "We think it's a good move. We're all getting multiple applica- tions since the College Board changed its rule. We all have slightly different ways of calculating financial need but with all these applications, we need a co-operative arrangement to set need. "And it also is hard on the applicant with a different set of forms from everyone...
Last week, as they started their higher education, the nation's freshmen got some counsel from three college presidents: ¶ Go slow, warned Brown's Dr. Henry M. Wriston, in choosing a vocation. "At your age," Wriston said, "worry about how you are going to make your living leads to impulsive selections . . . Premature choices tend to lead you into, and freeze you in, occupations which will be inadequately rewarding spiritually, which may curb mental enjoyment." Most men in middle life are bored with their jobs because they "selected their vocation in a search for security instead of adventure...
...Buck's citation, President Henry M. Wriston said...