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...Yale faculty voted last week to allow its members to "suspend normal academic functions" and most have done so. Yale president Kingman Brewster has adopted a policy of cooperation with student requests concerning the Seale trial and the massive demonstrations protesting it which are planned for this Friday...
...Brewster Suspends Classes
...Yale president Kingman Brewster Jr. said yesterday that university professors would be allowed to suspend classes beginning Monday for an "explicitly indefinite period" so that students and faculty could discuss the Black Panther trial in New Haven...
Assailing the views of Vice President Agnew at an alumni banquet, Yale President Kingman Brewster delivered himself of some convoluted prose worthy of Spiro himself: "Perhaps the greatest contribution we can make is to reaffirm in the face of those who would seek to coerce conformity that practical progress relies most of all on the evolution of the better by the survival of the fittest among ideas tossed in the blanket of debate, dispute and disagreement...
...therefore be useful to point out that Yale has a University Provost, who is described in the By-Laws of Yale University as the "chief educational officer" of the University. The post has been filled for some years by Professor Charles Taylor. Brewster himself was Yale Provost before becoming President. The existence of the Office of the Provost relieves the President from a great number of duties. Of course, it neither prevents nor exempts the President from being concerned with the educational affairs of the University, and the Yale case supports this part of the argument as well. An autonomous...