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PRESIDEN T u . . . We are not going to convert Yale into an educational service station on the one hand or an ivory tower on the other, for by either course we should be shirking our duty and denying ourselves the opportunity of making much more valuable contribue tions to society. As to the first, even in the most practical reckon- ing the most urgent need of our society is for the pure learning, in the humanities and social sciences as well as in the sciences, that will enable us to improve upon todayis knowledge and re- place ideas, attitudes, and technologies that are already obsolete with new and better ones. In this our very security as a nation is at stake. As to the second choice, our duty is not, as Milton said at the beginning of the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century, 'to sequester out of this world into . . . Utopian polities, . . . but to ordain wisely in the world of evil, in the midst whereof God hath placed us unavoidablyf, This is not only our duty. It is our instinct as members of society and our tradition as a university. Our conscious choice is neither to cater to the world nor to deny the world but to ordain as wisely as we can Within it, to shed whatever light pure learning is capable of shedding upon it, and to prepare the rising generation for full and purposeful lives in the face of whatever that light reveals. The Prexidenlir Report !0 tlae Alumni of Yale Univerxily, 1958-59 A. WHITNEY GRISWOLD became the sixteenth Presi- dent of Yale University in 1950 at the age of 43. Since assuming the Presidency, he has become one Of the leading spokesmen for liberal arts and higher education in this country. The author of a number of books on the educational process, Mr. Griswold has received honorary degrees from eight different institutions, and is also the recipient of a Freedom's Foundation award and an Officer of the French Legion of Honor. Though devoting a large portion of his efforts to the strengthening of the Yale curriculum, Mr. Griswold is widely hailed as a scholar of wit and learning. 26
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