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...alumnus of Yale and a junior faculty member for five years (until 1966), I was delighted with your cover story [June 23] on President Brewster...
...undergraduate course-of-study committee, of which I was then a member. All committee meetings were attended by Georges May, dean of the undergraduate college, who was an early enthusiastic backer of the plan and to whom the major credit for its eventual acceptance is due. In contrast, Brewster was originally skeptical, fearing with some justification that it might lead science students to avoid the liberal arts completely, and liberal arts students to neglect the sciences. However, his pragmatic spirit prevailed and he agreed to a trial...
...principal reason for the rapid decline in private higher education that you so vividly describe in your Kingman Brewster cover story [June 23] was expressed with unusual candor in 1959 by then University of Chicago Chancellor Lawrence Kimpton, speaking to state university administrators: "To put it in the crassest terms possible-and I know this will offend many of the brotherhood-it is hard to market a product at a fair price when down the street someone is giving it away." The decline of private education is bound to accelerate unless something is done about this...
...TIME refers to Kingman Brewster's "revolutionary" loan program and to sev eral criticisms of it. But in "Learn Now, Pay Much Later" [June 21, 1963], you reported on a similar plan, but one that meets such objections to his program as that made by Howard Johnson of M.I.T...
...article in the Harvard Educational Review, and since you saw fit to give it the wide circulation provided by TIME, we should both feel satisfied to have come up a few years ago with an idea that is now apparently making quite an impact through the words of President Brewster...