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...says that "we're worried to the point of reaching for the panic button." Columbia's president, Grayson Kirk, contends that "all our institutions face a financial problem of staggering magnitude and complexity." "Self-pity is a congenital disease of my profession," adds Yale's Kingman Brewster Jr., president of the nation's third oldest and second richest private university, "but it's almost impossible to exaggerate this problem." Yale, he says bluntly, "has never had a more difficult financial prospect-and a serious strain on resources for Yale is a crisis for other places...
...however, the quest for funds is a matter of life and death. "The less well-endowed university," says Brewster, "is literally finding its back to the wall as it tries to be competitive in faculty, facilities and programs." Occidental President Richard C. Gilman, while confident that his own school will survive, predicts that 250 private colleges will either merge with other institutions or collapse within the next five years. Already Temple and the Universities of Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Kansas City, and Houston have quietly surrendered their status as entirely independent private schools, have become affiliated with state systems...
...administrators today spend most of their time in hot pursuit of potential donors. As Ford Foundation President McGeorge Bundy notes, "The private university that does not choose an entrepreneur for its president is bound to be sorry." Yale has had little reason to be sorry that it chose Kingman Brewster, whom U.S. Education Commissioner Harold Howe calls "one of the most lively voices in higher education today." Although not an educational philosopher in the style of Clark Kerr or James Bryant Conant, Brewster is an outgoing activist and analytical problem-solver who is convinced that innovation and change...
...great liability that trim, urbane, greyingly handsome Kingman Brewster, at 48, looks rather as if he had been type-cast by Otto Preminger for the job of chief salesman and spokesman for Yale. An eleventh-generation descendant of a Mayflower immigrant, he is every inch the patrician who enjoys academic ceremony. At the same time, says one friend, Brewster "holds a fundamental irreverence for anything stuffy, too old or established" -and delights close friends at dinner parties with his self-depreciating humor and talent for mimicry. Actually a loner who carefully guards his deepest feelings, Brewster is also gregarious enough...
...Kingman Brewster Jr., LL.D., president of Yale. As captain of a unisexual barque, it is logical for you to engage in some institutional flirtations...