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...Trottenberg says that "we're worried to the point of reaching for the panic button." Columbia's president, Grayson Kirk, contends that "all our institutions face a financial problem of staggering magnitude and complexity." "Self-pity is a congenital disease of my profession," adds Yale's Kingman Brewster Jr., president of the nation's third oldest and second richest private university, "but it's almost impossible to exaggerate this problem." Yale, he says bluntly, "has never had a more difficult financial prospect-and a serious strain on resources for Yale is a crisis for other...
...academic administrators today spend most of their time in hot pursuit of potential donors. As Ford Foundation President McGeorge Bundy notes, "The private university that does not choose an entrepreneur for its president is bound to be sorry." Yale has had little reason to be sorry that it chose Kingman Brewster, whom U.S. Education Commissioner Harold Howe calls "one of the most lively voices in higher education today." Although not an educational philosopher in the style of Clark Kerr or James Bryant Conant, Brewster is an outgoing activist and analytical problem-solver who is convinced that innovation and change...
...Kingman Brewster Jr., LL.D., president of Yale. As captain of a unisexual barque, it is logical for you to engage in some institutional flirtations...
...psychiatry at Yale University's School of Medicine, he dreaded administrative duties. Over the years, he jokes, "they said that I ran the department like the old Austro-Hungarian empire-with absolutism mitigated by sloppiness." He improved his technique enough to suit Yale; last week University President Kingman Brewster Jr. announced the appointment of Dr. Redlich, 56, to be dean of the School of Medicine. Come July 1, he will succeed Pediatrician Vernon W. Lippard, 62, who will become a special adviser to Brewster on medical affairs...
Vassar's president Simpson changes his mind again and decides not to merge with anyone. Exasperated, Goheen and Kingman Brewster Jr. hold a wee-morning-hours conference in conveniently located New Rochelle, and reach agreement. Yale and Princeton merge. The Dunster House revival of Breakfast at Tiffany's breaks all box office records for the Dunster House dining room...