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...representatives of 169 colleges and universities, 32 of them founded or first headed by Yalemen, looked on, Kingman Brewster, Jr., was installed as 17th president of Yale University in New Haven, Conn., Saturday...
...Brewster, who had served as Yale's provost under A. Whitney Griswold, insisted in his inaugural address that private universities must remain independent of both government and private business and suggested the formation of a "Peace Reserve Training Corps" on the model of existing ROTC programs...
...graduate of the Harvard Law School, Brewster was a professor of Law here before becoming provost. He is the first man not holding an earned doctorate to head Yale in this century...
...explosion of knowledge," and the "uncanny development of automated machines and mechanized intelligence," are destroying the monopoly of a few universities over high-quality education, Brewster said...
With this loss of a monopoly over knowledge, Brewster said, the most important function of a university will be to provide a climate where "20 years of unbroken competition for nothing worthier than test scores" is not allowed "to dampen all aspiration, intellectual as well as active," and "where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure...