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...when Yale University President A. Bartlett Giamatti, a Renaissance literature scholar, said he wanted to become president of baseball's National League, he was dead serious...
...unusual career change, earlier this month Giamatti took over the post he desired...
Retiring President A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI at Yale University, New Haven, Conn.: "As I think back and look forward, I see how nothing is unambiguous; nothing is without risk. Salvation does not come through simplicities. The health of educational institutions rests on the need to be mindful of the crucial distinction between education and indoctrination. There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the Left and Right. They are not confined to a single part of society. They are the terrorists of the mind. (But) if freedom does not first reside...
Schmidt, currently the dean of the Columbia LawSchool, will succeed A. Bartlett Giamatti aspresident of Yale next month. He is regarded as anauthority on the history of the Supreme Court thefreedom of the press. He has moderated round-tablediscussions of freedom of the press and otherlegal issues for the Public Braodcasting System...
...Yale community offered virtually no dissent on Schmidt's selection. And the search committee was deeply pleased with its decision, doubly so at having avoided leaks, which eight years ago revealed Giamatti to be second choice. Although Vance was discreetly mum about alternative candidates this time, it was clear that, as a 19th century yachtsman replied when asked who finished second in the runaway victory by the U.S. in the first America's Cup race, "there is no second...