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THEODORE L. BREWSTER Washington...
Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. was his usual affable self when he acknowledged Yale's academic maturity and gave one of the nine other honararies to Henry Ford 2nd, who resigned from the Class of '40 when he turned in a bogus termpaper the spring of his senior year...
Once the crisis was at hand, President Bok encouraged the Kingman comparison by issuing Brewster-like noble irrelevancies such as "I am revolted by the colonialism of the Portuguese government in Angola," while the Corporation played Eisenhower by announcing that it would Go to Angola, or at least send a representative "to provide us first-hand information on Gulf's performance" (though the information provided by PALC and Farber left little in doubt). In defending the Corporation's stand against divestiture. Bok pointed out that life is a web of guilt-by-association, equating Harvard's Gulf investment with personal...
Hannah Arendt, LL.D., author. Kingman Brewster Jr., LL.D., president of Yale University. Thomas G. Wicker, LL.D., journalist...