14 Oct 2017
No More Magic Carpet!
A. Whitney Griswold, The Good Old Days, Yale
Alfred Whitney Griswold, 1906-1963, President of Yale 1951-1963.
“Ours was probably the last class in history to leave New Haven on a magic carpet. Everyone since 1929 has taken the day coach.”
— Whitney Griswold, Hotchkiss 1925, Yale 1929 and Wolf’s Head, quoted in David Alan Richards’ “Skulls and Keys: The Hidden History of Yale’s Secret Societies,” 2017.
