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...learns." Teaching became his vocation no less than his avocation. The zestful, enthusiastic approach I saw last December had germinated in 1959 and was transplanted to the Yale campus in 1964 when Segal accompanied Eric Havelock, then chairman of the Harvard Classics department, who had been lured by Kingman Brewster to the paradise of New Haven. "I'm tremendously chauvinistic about Harvard. The longer I was at Yale, the more I appreciated Harvard." Yet he admits that there are things about Yale that are better. "The sheer educational system; the fact that at Yale you are more likely...
President Kingman Brewster Jr., president of Yale, announced support yesterday for the proposals of a Yale planning committee which was formed to recommend ways to revitalize undergraduate education at Yale...
...Brewster--speaking before a faculty discussion session on the proposals--said the recommendations contained healthy pragmatism. "The report is not a program, but a bold revision. It would place greater reliance on guided self-education," he said...
Nonetheless, many of the students have concluded that if coeducation at Yale is ever to be coequal, the male-female ratio, which has narrowed slightly to 5 to 1, must be equalized. That seems a remote possibility, though Brewster is considering some kind of reorganization to bring it closer. The main obstacle is his own promise to alumni that Yale would continue to turn out "1,000 male leaders" every year. Thus, while absorbing large numbers of women (a total of 823 this year), Yale has held male enrollment (4,000) constant-and has suffered from serious overcrowding...
Concludes Brewster: "Once we overcome the lopsided ratio, I don't think there will be any drawbacks to coeducation at Yale. People have a much more human relationship with each other now. They're more considerate. Educationally, socially, and even morally Yale is a much better place than it was before...