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...love them," said Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. one day last spring. His comment was inspired by this year's 188 coed graduates−the first women to complete four undergraduate years at Yale. Last week Brewster demonstrated his enthusiasm for women at Yale by appointing Historian Hanna Holborn Gray to the key position of provost. When she takes up her post next July, Mrs. Gray will be the university's chief educational and financial officer and possible heiress to the presidency...
Although Mrs. Gray never studied at Yale, she has "a very special feeling" about the place because she grew up in New Haven. Her father, the late historian Hajo Holborn, came to Yale in 1934 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. Mrs. Gray herself went to Bryn Mawr before receiving her doctorate from Radcliffe. She has taught at Bryn Mawr, Harvard and the University of Chicago, where her husband Charles now is a professor of English history. Since 1971 she has been dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern, and after describing herself as "stunned...
...Aldwych is one of the harder theatres in London to get to: if you go by underground, you get off at Holborn and walk a very long block down to the Stand. This is its only disadvantage, however, and counterbalancing that is one overpowering merit: the Aldwych is the London home of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Perhaps the most salient comment about this group is expressed on the back of every RSC program: "The company is responsible for most of the major Shakespeare productions seen in this country." And one might add, most of the major Shakespeare productions seen...
This week West Berlin's Singakade-mie performs the Christmas oratorio with members of the Radio Symphony Orchestra. In London, Composer Benjamin Britten conducts three cantatas for the BBC from St. Andrew's Church in Holborn. In Manhattan, Violinist and Conductor Alexander Schneider completes a two-concert series of cantatas and concertos at Carnegie Hall. And in New York, as in other major capitals, the coming weeks will see a performance of Bach's undoubted masterpiece, the B-Minor Mass-a work that he began as a tribute to the Catholic King of Poland, but which...
...generally well accepted and is working his way into the Senate "Establishment" by dint of such seemingly inconsequential actions as lingering in Mississippi Senator James O. Eastland's office one morning a few years ago to sip bourbon with him. "Teddy's more casual," says Fred Holborn, a White House aide under J.F.K. "Ask Teddy to put more bite into a speech, and he'll refuse, saying...