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...much to ask that the members of the Yale Corporation resolve to stay in session this weekend until they have chosen a president?" Whether or not stung by this rebuke, the Corporation gathered around a highly polished table in Woodbridge Hall and finally agreed on a name: Kingman Brewster...
Point of View. Yale's 17th president fits no educator's conventional mold. In college, he rose to become chairman of the Daily News, but on Tap Day, when Yale juniors are selected for secret societies, a delegation from Skull & Bones searched for Brewster in vain, finally found him firmly seated on a basement toilet, from which perspective he declined membership. At the start of World War II, when Yale's President...
Charles Seymour was a vigorous internationalist in support of all-out aid to Britain, Brewster argued for the America Firsters in college debates. But when the U.S. went to war, Brewster promptly joined the Navy and became a fighter pilot...
...Grad Sailor. The path back to Yale started at Martha's Vineyard, Mass., where the Brewsters and their five children spend their summer sailing. A neighbor and fellow sailor at Vineyard Haven was Whitney Griswold. Becoming good friends, the Old Grad and the President ribbed each other unmercifully. "What are you doing to my alma mater?" Brewster would roar, joshing Griswold about student riots at New Haven, losing football teams or his presidential speeches. When the rumor spread that Brewster was under consideration as next dean of the Harvard Law School, Griswold in 1960 offered Brewster Yale...
...find out if I would be any good at it." He lost no time proving he was a natural. And as acting president for the past five months, he has been operating boss of a $45 million budget and overseer of some 8,400 students and 2,000 faculty. Brewster has made few mistakes. No one doubts that the official transition from No. 2 to No. 1 will be equally smooth and painless...