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...Have you noticed this Times obsession with Yale of late? Their second front page talks of little else. I've read that Yale has girls now. They even live in the same dormitories, though in different entryways. There aren't very many, but as Kingman Brewster so aptly put it, Yale has a responsibility to produce "1000 male leaders" every year. What with Consciousness III around the corner and Yale so hip, I guess they figure this is as good a time as any to begin attempting to fulfil that responsibility. Yale Admissions Director Inslee Clark-students call him Inky...
...CYNICAL here might take comfort in the knowledge that both Segal and Brewster were educated at Harvard, and that most of Reich's analysis is really Galbraith without the economics (a concept, admittedly, ?me might find as ludicrous as Galbraith without the modesty). They can snort to each other-and rightly so-that each Brewster speech, each Segal movie, each Reich pronouncement, each flattering Israel Shenker Times profile is a triumph of style over content, content ?? residing exclusively somewhere north of the Charles. But it's a triumph nonetheless. And can we ignore it? More than we suspect, Harvard...
...thing, there's the presidency. Last Spring, I asked Brewster for an interview for the CRIMSON. He protested shyly that "What with Harvard looking for a new president, perhaps it's not the best time for my name to be splashed all over the CRIMSON." But like it or not, Brewster's name has been mentioned (if not splashed) practically everywhere else. With the possible exception of S. I. Hayakawa, he is the best-known college president in America. With dozens of colleges looking for male leaders, his national reputation has followed three of the four steps traditionally ascribed...
Would they? Would Harvard students be taken in by a grinning hypocrite who came glad-handing his way down to Lowell House to pacify the natives whenever they got restless? Some of Brewster's tunts seem so obvi...
...insult the intelligence even, of Yale. A year age, for example, Brewster spoke in front of the Yale Political Union, an apolitical student forum, and gained national publicity for his proposal that any Yale president's term be "reviewed" by the Yale Corporation every seven years. Whatever that meant-since no president has tenure and can be fired at any time time-Brewster's first seven years just happened to be coming to a close and, to no one's surprise he was allowed-nay, encouraged -to remain at his post. In that same speech, however, he dismissed unilaterally...