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When he announced plans for revamping the curriculum in January, Brown's president Henry M. Wriston charged that "most textbooks are hardly worth reading. If they are not barren of ideas, they are impoverished in that respect. The minds of freshmen need to be awakened to a new adventure. The great mistake in American education from kindergarten through graduate school has been an underestimation of the capacity of students...
Congressional investigations have not threatened academic freedom, and professors who refuse to cooperate with the investigations should be suspended, Henry M. Wriston, president of Brown University, said last night at a Brown alumni dinner in Boston...
...professor who refuses to answer, the burden of proving his fitness ever to teach again rest squarely upon him," Wriston stated, and added...
...Based on the work of a committee headed by Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold. The other members: Chancellors Arthur Holly Compton of Washington University, Franklin Murphy of the University of Kansas, Presidents J. E. Wallace Sterling of Stanford, Henry Wriston of Brown...
More than one U.S. educator felt he had good reason for fear. "You have today," said President Henry M. Wriston of Brown, "a bullying of the intellectuals of the United States which is intolerable . . . Whenever by slander, by innuendo, by rumor, investigators start to throw mud at the colleges, then every alumnus in every institution of the United States should rise up and say, this has got to stop...