Word: kingman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kingman Brewster, Jr., was officially named the seventeenth president of Yale University by a vote of the Yale Corporation Saturday morning. The announcement ended a five-month search for a successor to A. Whitney Griswold, who died on April...
...reply of Yale's Acting President Kingman Brewster Jr. to that question, put up to him by the school's Political Union, was no-it would insult and possibly incite New Haven Negroes. Last week the Ivy League fell all over itself to refute Brewster. The Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats invited Wallace to speak there, got a ruling of "no objection" from President Nathan M. Pusey. When the Brown University Daily Herald also invited Wallace, President Barnaby Keeney said that Brown is open to all speakers-"Communists, fascists, racists and bigots." Princeton's Robert Goheen sanctioned...
...feedback got so intense at Yale that law students decided to reinvite Wallace. "Offensive and unwise," said Kingman Brewster, but nevertheless "Yale will not stand in the way." Free speech, it seems, goes for the bad guys as well as the good guys...
...Haven, four days of frantic maneuvering produced a "decision" by two law school groups to issue a new invitation for Wallace to visit Yale. But the groups will first seek approval from Kingman Brewster, Jr., provost and acting president, who forced the cancellation of an earlier invitation by the Yale Political Union on the grounds that Wallace's presence in New Haven might provoke violence...
...action of Kingman Brewster, Jr., Acting President of Yale, passes understanding. After the Yale Political Union, a student debating society, invited Governor Wallace of Alabama to speak at Yale during his tour of the North, Brewster warned that Wallace's presence at Yale would strain dangerously relations with New Haven's Negro community and might cause violence. As a result the YPU withdrew its invitation...