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Provost Kingman Brewster, Jr. will serve as head of Yale until a new president is appointed, the Yale Corporation announced today. Brewster, who has been administrating the university during Griswold's illness, is considered here to be a likely candidate to succeed the late president...
Died. Chauncey Brewster Tinker, 86, Yale's great teacher of English literature (among his students: Stephen Vincent Benet, Sinclair Lewis, Archibald MacLeish. Thornton Wilder) and the university's keeper of rare books, world-renowned for his 1925 discovery of a supposedly destroyed collection of Boswell papers; of a stroke; in Hartford, Conn. Tink's literary sleuthing uncovered the papers in Ireland's Malahide Castle, but he was unable to persuade Lord Talbot de Malahide, Boswell's great-great-grandson, to part with the vast trove. It remained for Lieut...
From his undergraduate days, Mr. Stewart chiefly remembers the awesome approach of World War II and the controversy over the question of United States entry. The Yale Daily News, under a series of chairmen including Kingman Brewster, now dean of the Yale faculty, had taken an isolationist position. At the time when the controversy was greatest, Stewart was writing frequently for the News editorial page, and defending it in public. When the United States finally did enter the war, Stewart wrote a series of editorials suggesting ways in which the university could effectively mobilize for wartime service. Several...
...Brewster's memorandum also forbade Powell to make his files on students available to potential employers. Information on students at Yale will be channeled only through the deans and college masters...
...five-point memorandum to Powell, Yale Provost Kingman Brewster, Jr. outlined what the limits and prerogatives of the campus police were...