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Pearl Harbor and the passage of the Lend-Lease Act turned Brewster into a dedicated internationalist. After graduating cum laude in 1941 (selected by his class as the member who "had done most for Yale"), he joined the State Department as an aide in Nelson
...Brewster spent a year working with the Marshall Plan in Paris, returned to start a twelve-year teaching career, first at M.I.T., then at Harvard Law School. As a teacher, he "worked harder than I ever have before or since," he recalls. "Because of the caliber of the students, you find yourself spending most of your time on the ropes...
...Brewster had been promoted to full professor at Harvard and was serving on top faculty committees when his longtime friend, Whit Griswold, by then president of Yale, asked him to become his provost. Although he had no Ph.D. and no administrative experience, he quickly accepted. His acceptance was dictated partly by his admiration for Griswold and his affection for Yale. It was also, he recalls, "a decision you make at 40 to find out what you're good at." Brewster turned out to be so good at the job that the Yale Corporation promoted him to the presidency when...
Appointed President? There are many Brewster friends who figure that he wants to prove he is good at other things than running Yale-most likely at politics. Brewster admits that unlike most Yale presidents, he does not want to keep the post until retirement age. "To stay ten years-give or take half of that-would be bad for the institution and bad for me," he says. He does not discuss his political aims, but few expect him to aim lower than a Senate seat. In mocking reference to both his ambitions and his stylish mode of dress -mod-striped...
...Whatever Brewster's next career choice, his advice to incoming Yale freshmen last fall will undoubtedly be his own guide as well. "The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others. To be a man is to matter to someone outside yourself, or to some calling or cause bigger than yourself." At the moment, that cause for Brewster is still Yale-and he has mattered much in bringing Yale into a more relevant concern with contemporary issues...