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PAYE's most energetic champions are Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. and M.I.T. Physicist Jerrold Zacharias, a fiery curriculum reformer. They and their supporters originally hoped that the scheme would help colleges to ease their financial squeeze by raising tuition. In turn, PAYE would help students raise the cash...
With typical caution, Bok asked for ten days to think it over, then phoned Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr., once his favorite Harvard law professor and the man who later recruited Bok for the Harvard faculty. The two men and their wives met in New York City. Bok's fears that the job would be too wearing were eased by his discovery that the Brewsters "were quite exhilarated by what they do." On Christmas Eve, Burr again rode through a snowstorm, this time to hear Bok accept...
...much in the mold of Yale President Kingman Brewster, whose finesse and drive have lately nudged Yale's prestige ahead to the point of challenging Harvard's. Like Brewster, Bok has rugged good looks and a legal background, is youthful and a politically deft administrator. Though never a Harvard undergraduate like all previous presidents (he was an undergraduate at Stanford), he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law and has been on the faculty since 1958. He is respected within his specialty of labor law and is experienced as a strike negotiator, but he is boyish enough...
Reaction among academics to the Bok appointment has also been favorable. Yale President Kingman Brewster, a friend and former teacher of Bok, called him "a superb choice, not just for Harvard but for the sake of all of higher education." Solicitor General Enwin Griswold, who brought both Bok and Brewster to the Law School when he was Dean, was "delighted by the appointment...
...known Kingman Brewster since his days as a student at the Law School, said that he met with the Yale president in New York City over the holidays. "He gave my wife and me an idea of what the life was like," Bok said. "I was certainly struck by the great interest an enthusiasm he had for what he was doing... which was critical...