Word: kingman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Yale president Kingman Brewster Jr. slipped a mild criticism of Harvard's admission policies into an article in the Yale Alumni Magazine, the New York Times promptly blew the "controversy" out of all proportion by splattering it onto the front page. But even though no one expects a blood feud to erupt between the two institutions over the issue, it should still be noted that Brewster hasn't got much of an argument...
Yale President Kingman Brewster is almost savage in his denunciation of the draft policy that allows broadside college deferments: "It is unfair; it is undemocratic; and-worst of all-it fosters a cynical disrespect for national service and corrupts the aims of education." Princeton President Robert Francis Goheen argues that because draft calls are still relatively small, the system is "unnecessarily erratic in what it does to young men's lives. Great inequities occur which are not compensated for by any real social gain. We have enough educated manpower that just the pursuit of a Ph.D. in history, classics...
...Kingman Brewster Jr., president of Yale, announced after the Corporation's meeting last Saturday that "the corporation recognizes the need for high quality education for women and is interested in exploring how Yale might contribute to meeting this need beyond what it already does through its graduate professional schools...
...really been an activist." California's Clark Kerr, once one of the most influential presidents, has turned more of his attention to his own school since the Berkeley crises of last year. Chicago's George Beadle is caught up in reshaping his own institution. Yale's Kingman Brewster, though distinctly an activist, is still too new in his job to have time to join the inner group...
Proponents of the plan say there has been no decrease in student-faculty contact at Pierson College. Assistants of Kingman Brewster, President of Yale, did not feel the Hersey appointment will affect faculty acceptance of masterships in the future...