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Donald W. Kingman Forest Park...
...awarding Bailyn the honorary "Degree of Humane Letters," Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. praised the 53-year-old historian as an "interpreter of the colonial age" whose "clarity of mind and pen bring a rare pattern of coherence and wholeness to our understanding of the American past...
...epochal afternoon in his junior year, Trudeau showed News editors sketches for a proposed cartoon strip. In the fall of 1968 the first installments of Bull Tales appeared, poking sophomoric fun at mixers, campus revolutionaries, Yale President Kingman Brewster-but mostly at the football huddles of "B.D." Yalies recognized the jock as Brian Dowling, standout Yale quarterback who will play next season for Toronto. "I never knew Trudeau," says Dowling, "but I thought the strip was funny...
...except to immerse oneself in a surging tide of flesh, heaving violently in one direction after another in pursuit of the ball. The specter of academic pressure seems to preside over this activity, as it does over every activity at Yale. Last year the bladderball was removed to Kingman Brewster's lawn and, while the president of Yale stood on his porch, drink in hand, the nearly spent bladderballers chanted "Thirty-Two! Thirty-Two! Thirty-Two!..." They were referring to the number of courses they would like to be required to take instead of the present minimum of thirty...
...April 1971, Yale President Kingman Brewster decided that Yale College badly needed "a coherant, purposive articulation of the goals of education at Yale." He asked Robert A. Dahl, a professor of Government, to chair a blue-ribbon committee of five faculty and administrators and produce "broad recommendations concerning the future of Yale College over the next 20 years...