Academic Administrator

🇺🇸Elena Kagan

Politics

b. 1960

"I love Justice Marshall. He did an enormous amount for me. But if you confirm me to this position, you will get Justice Kagan. You won't get Justice Marshall, and that's an important thing."

🇺🇸Russell Conwell

Politics

1843–1925

"There is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings, or by the shortcomings of someone else. It is all wrong to be poor, anyhow."

🇺🇸Walter Dill Scott

Psychology

1869–1955

"Man has been called the reasoning animal but he could with greater truthfulness be called the creature of suggestion. He is reasonable, but he is to a greater extent suggestible."

🇺🇸George Aiken

Politics

1892–1984

"Biographical summary from the University of Vermont"

🇺🇸Randolph Sinks Foster

Religion

1820–1903

"Biographical Notes: Presidents and Key Figures, Drew University"

🇺🇸Frederick Terman

Education

1900–1982

"It is better to have one seven-foot jumper on your team than any number of six-foot jumpers."

🇺🇸Alfred Whitney Griswold

Science

1906–1963

"Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones."

🇨🇦Robert J. Birgeneau

Politics

b. 1942

"It is unfortunate that some protesters chose to obstruct the police by linking arms and forming a human chain to prevent the police from gaining access to the tents. This is not non-violent civil disobedience."