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Yale, too, was proud as punch (Kingman Brewster felt it a "great privilege") that Vassar might be willing to scoop her classrooms and labs into her purse and scamper over the Berkshires to the sea. And it is a sacrifice on the part of Vassar. A football weekend in New Haven is all very well, but to live there. Smokestacks. Grimy water. Yale men. Everywhere. Hundreds of them...
...thirteenth year of the reign of Nathan and in the third of the reign of Kingman a slew of winged seraphim spitting hellfire descended unto Jonathan, son of Henry, and he was sore afraid. "Lo," said one of the seraphim as with twain he did cover his eyes, and with twain he did cover his ears and with twain he did cover his mouth, making of consequence his "Lo" wondrously muffled...
When Yale president Kingman Brewster Jr. slipped a mild criticism of Harvard's admission policies into an article in the Yale Alumni Magazine, the New York Times promptly blew the "controversy" out of all proportion by splattering it onto the front page. But even though no one expects a blood feud to erupt between the two institutions over the issue, it should still be noted that Brewster hasn't got much of an argument...
Yale President Kingman Brewster is almost savage in his denunciation of the draft policy that allows broadside college deferments: "It is unfair; it is undemocratic; and-worst of all-it fosters a cynical disrespect for national service and corrupts the aims of education." Princeton President Robert Francis Goheen argues that because draft calls are still relatively small, the system is "unnecessarily erratic in what it does to young men's lives. Great inequities occur which are not compensated for by any real social gain. We have enough educated manpower that just the pursuit of a Ph.D. in history, classics...
...Kingman Brewster Jr., president of Yale, announced after the Corporation's meeting last Saturday that "the corporation recognizes the need for high quality education for women and is interested in exploring how Yale might contribute to meeting this need beyond what it already does through its graduate professional schools...