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Campus wits called it "the coronation of the Kingman" and Yale's Kingman Brewster Jr. jovially agreed. With two days of pomp and ceremony designed by him to stress that "Yale is an important asset of world civilization," the 263-year-old university last week inaugurated Brewster as its 17th president...
Cross Campus, and the bells in Harkness Tower pealed traditional Yale tunes (sample: Down the Field). Parading back to cavernous Woolsey Hall, Brewster received the ancient symbols of presidential office: the 1701 manuscript of the original Yale Charter, the school seal of 1722, and the brass keys to the university. Windup of the weekend was a grand ball at the turtle-shaped Ingalls hockey rink, where guests, faculty and the presidential couple sipped punch and danced the night away as two bands played music to be inaugurated...
Homecoming. Although Brewster is a Yaleman (class of '41), he is far from a typical Old Blue. As an undergraduate he turned down membership in Yale's elite senior societies, quit a fraternity because of the "mumbo jumbo" of the national chapter. He was chairman of the local America First Com mittee, among a dozen other campus activities, but when war came, lie signed up as a Navy fighter pilot. Instead of returning to Yale, Brewster went through Harvard Law School, became a professor in it, and was talked about as a possible future dean. It was while...
...Brewster also emphasized that "as other corporate and government groups mobilize intelligence to discover as well as to apply knowledge to meet topical needs. It is all the more crucial to have a few academic centers predominantly motivated by a self-directed search for truth...
...Freedom," Brewster said, "has too often been reduced to the right to choose on whom to be dependent." He emphasized the desire of many scholars "to spend one's time and energy and mind upon what seems to him most intriguing and exciting, not to be directed by what some client or customer may request or what some bureaucrat is willing to support...