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...Deans of admission for both Harvard and Yale downplayed yesterday the significance of a recent letter from Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. which recommended encouraging scholar athletes who apply to Yale...
...Brewster Ashenden, hero of The Making of Ashenden, is quite the opposite. One of the world's richest and most civilized men, he hungers after refinement. Ashenden does not, like Main, take life by the throat. It grabs him. Specifically, he is raped by a bear-a ridiculous fate but one that seems appropriate to break through the charmed circle of Ashenden's life...
Women, I love them," said Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. one day last spring. His comment was inspired by this year's 188 coed graduates−the first women to complete four undergraduate years at Yale. Last week Brewster demonstrated his enthusiasm for women at Yale by appointing Historian Hanna Holborn Gray to the key position of provost. When she takes up her post next July, Mrs. Gray will be the university's chief educational and financial officer and possible heiress to the presidency...
DEREK BOK has been at Harvard's helm for two full years now. When he was first tabbed for the post, skeptics scoffed. Another glad-handing Kingman Brewster type, they predicted. Is this view of Bok borne out by the evidence of the past two years? Steve Luxenberg has some answers on page...
...schools against which the suit was filed in 1972-Bobbe's Private School in Arlington and Fairfax-Brewster School in Fairfax County-both denied in the court that race had been their guide, but Judge Bryan called the denials "unbelievable." Neither school has ever had a black pupil or a black applicant. Bryan said the admissions policies of the schools show no "plan or purpose of exclusiveness for the selection of students other than race." The fact that the schools are open to every white child, he said, "disposes of the argument that these were truly private schools...