by admin | Sep 29, 2023 | Grad President's Report
By James Q. Griffin ’55 During the last four years, the University along with the Graduate and Undergraduate Interclub Committees has been exploring ways to make the Club admission process more understandable and accessible to sophomores. Approximately 65 percent of...
by admin | Sep 28, 2023 | Grad President's Report
By James Q. Griffin ’55 Ivy regenerates itself every February with the arrival of our new section. During the last century, the admission process has continued to evolve refl ecting contemporary social attitudes on the campus, but our fundamental focus on our...
by admin | Sep 28, 2023 | Grad President's Report
By James Q. Griffin ’55 At last spring’s Board meeting, we discussed the tendency of human institutions to revert to peer group norms. Those below average struggle to improve and those above the salt, either through deference or hubris, tend to drift to the center. A...
by admin | Sep 20, 2023 | Grad President's Report
By James Q. Griffin ’55 In 2001, your Governors met in the New York law offices of John MacMurray to debate the pluses and minuses of expanding our Ivy building. The existing facility was no longer adequate to accommodate the larger class sections which had resulted...