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...Kingman Brewster Jr., president of Yale, assured the Ford Hall Forum last night in Boston that "students are no longer exploited and herded by the demagogues of last Spring...
...youngest, but has outstanding credentials in all three fields. He has the distinction of being considered Dunlop's protege as a labor negotiator, and Kingman Brewster's protege as an administrator (which is a bizarre combination). He has co-authored books with both Dunlop and Archibald Cox: and is an associate of both the Kennedy School of Government and the Economics Department...
...years as president of Michigan, Fleming has managed to acquire the dubious reputation of being the Kingman Brewster of the Midwest...
...Kingman Brewster, in the standard interpretation of Mayday at Yale, emerges as a sort of Faust figure, a corrupt, conniving academic who sold his soul to the devil for an easy out. Very few people have compared him to Marguerite, the naive, innocent young girl whom Mephistopheles lures into damnation. The Faust interpretation, after all, has one important flaw; it presumes that the Yale administration is made up of Faustian academics overflowing with guile and cunning, who completely controlled the events of last spring. In fact, the reverse was true...
...situation at Yale last spring was an independent organism, towering over the people involved. Every side: students, Panthers, police, administration, struggled to define its own position, and everyone agreed that he was not trying to attack anyone else. Kingman Brewster said that he doubted that black revolutionaries could get a fair trial: Big Man, the Panther spokesman, called for solidarity with students and radicals; the police chief announced that his men would keep a low profile; a group of students and faculty members offered to ride around in unmarked patrol cars and help the police break up incidents...