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President Henry M. Wriston, 63, of Brown University, believes that it is high time for revolution. Last week he announced that he had ripped apart his old curriculum and was starting to sweep it away. Brown, said he, is out to revolutionize the first two years of college...
...College, Wriston says, is not only dull, it is often soporific, and "most textbooks are hardly worth reading. If they are not barren of ideas, they are impoverished in that respect." Since 1946 a group of Brown professors, sparkplugged by Vice President Bruce M. Bigelow, has been looking for a solution. Financed by a special $250,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation, Brown's plan is now just about set to go into effect next fall...
...Brown well knows, this sort of education is expensive. Since there will be no mass lectures or I.B.M.-corrected examinations, Brown figures that its professors will be able to take on only one course at a time. To President Wriston however, the price is not too high. "The great mistake in American education from kindergarten through graduate school," says he, "has been an underestimation of the capacity of students . . . The minds of freshmen need to be awakened [to] a new adventure...
These rules specifically state that "no fraternity initiations can be held for the rest of the year." They were made by the president of the University, Henry M. Wriston, in conjunction with fraternity officers following a riot on April...
...officer of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, of which President Wriston is a member, reported that the officers did not believe the sorties were against the rules. He did say, however, that sometimes the "scut" masters, those in charge of individual pledges, went overboard...