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Although the year abroad will be integrated with specialized study when the student returns, the purpose of the program is not primarily academic. It is designed, as President Kingman Brewster said on April 7, "to develop an intimate awareness of the extent to which values, expectations, standards of living and ways of life can be totally different from what the American student has inherited and experienced." Its major goal is "development of character and motivation"-a sense of perspective. And it guarantees official deferment-draft exempt status-to the student who interrupts the staid and established sequence of academics with...
Yale's program, in contrast to existing foreign study programs, calls for a virtual furlough from academic discipline. In contrast to Harvard's leave of absence, it integrates that furlough with courses and tutorial when the student returns. It "consciously breaks the sequence of testable learning," says President Brewster, "not under the shadow of opprobrium or for a fancy 'grand tour' but as part of a programmed educational pattern which splices experience with learning." The essential feature of Yale's program is neither its $300,000 nor its provision for a year in underdeveloped areas. It is rather than...
...TIME, March 12) after the philosophy department reversed itself and voted 5-2 against recommending tenure for him. "We watched a number of good teachers getting the ax," explained Yale Daily News Chairman Howard Moffett. "After a while you feel that you have to say something." Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. effectively closed the Bernstein case when he returned from a Bahamas vacation and announced that he would not overrule the tenure committee's adverse decision. But he also praised the students for their "zeal, good will and responsibility," promised to try to improve the techniques for "judging...
Woodward also intends to recommend that the 1965 Senior Class Book, tentatively dedicated to Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr., be dedicated to Sewall instead as an expression of discontent with the Bernstein tenure ruling...
...Neither Brewster, Bernstein, nor the pickets were available for yesterday...