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...State Dean Acheson, '15, Senator Robert A. Taft, '10, Connecticut's Governor Chester Bowles, '24). Yale was doing what Yale had done only 15 times before in its 249-year history: inaugurating a president. Yale's 16th: slim, ginger-haired Historian Alfred Whitney Griswold, 43, member of Yale's class of '29, faculty member since he won his Ph.D. in 1933, professor of history for twelve years before he was selected last February to succeed retiring President Charles Seymour...
...midst, the notables marched into the vaulted auditorium of Woolsey Hall and there, as Yalemen had done at the opening of the first college building, they sang an old metrical version of the 65th Psalm ("Thy praise alone, O Lord, doth reign / in Sion Thine own hill . . ."). Then Whitney Griswold, wearing around his neck the "president's collar" of 20 gold & silver links and a pendant medallion with the arms of Elihu Yale, received the charter, the seal, and the keys of the university "to cherish and defend." Finally, in the tradition of his predecessors, he stepped...
...Dean Griswold would not comment on the exams...
...Griswold's announcement came at a dinner of the Harvard Law School Association in the newly dedicated Harkness Commons. Endowment for the chair was provided by the joining of two gifts, the Roscoe Pound Fund, best up in 1936 by the Harvard Law School Association, and a recent bequest by the late Edward Buckner, a friend and former pupil of Pound...
...same time, Dean Griswold announced the establishment of a Foreign Law Research Study at the Law School. The study will seek to develop plans for helping lawyers to find answers to questions of foreign law. The new study is the first step in an expanded program of research and service at the Law School which will include extensive legal reference services for American lawyers and the establishment of a School of World...