Alfred Whitney Griswold
Alfred Whitney Griswold
Alfred Whitney Griswold, who went by his second given name, was an American historian and educator. He served as 16th President of Yale University from 1951 to 1963, during which he built much of Yale's modern scientific research infrastructure, especially on Science Hill...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth27 October 1906
CountryUnited States of America
Alfred Whitney Griswold quotes about
graduation philosophy college
A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste for philosophy, if you will; a capacity to explore, to question to perceive relationships, between fields of knowledge and experience.