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Pusey was one of three Ivy League presidents who did not sign the letter. Kingman Brewster Jr., president of Yale, had sent a stronger letter to Nixon last Thursday, asking for unconditional withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam. A spokesman for John Sloan Dickey, pres-ident of Dartmouth. said that Dickey thinks he can be "more effective if he doesn't take public stands in foreign affairs. Dickey, who was a State Department official before going to Dartmouth, has in the past expressed his opposition...
...greeting hordes of freshmen this fall, most college presidents have dusted off the standard speech on the rights of dissenters v. the rights of the community. No. such platitudes for Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. In his welcoming address to Yale's 1,250 freshmen last week, the Ivy League's least beleaguered president faced up to the root causes of student unrest with candor and conviction...
...GWEN KINGMAN Wayzata, Minn...
...only three ways out: by helicopter (at $120 per hour), on foot or by horseback. The eight-mile pack trip to the lip of the can yon takes three hours, but this is just the first leg. Havasupai in need of sup plies must travel 120 miles to Kingman, Ariz. From there merchants will ship goods back to the canyon at a 40% to 60% premium...
Presentations of honorary degrees are generally solemn affairs, but retiring Dartmouth President John Sloan Dickey put some kick in his kudos for Yale's President Kingman Brewster. Said Dickey, bestowing the LL.D.: "Never one to do things the easy way, you prepared for your avocation as a patrician sailor by being the eleventh-generation descendant of a Mayflower immigrant. As a Yale man, you prepared for the law by going to Harvard, then taught at Harvard Law School in preparation for the Yale presidency. As the editor of the Yale Daily News, you campaigned against the dress of Vassar...