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...really been an activist." California's Clark Kerr, once one of the most influential presidents, has turned more of his attention to his own school since the Berkeley crises of last year. Chicago's George Beadle is caught up in reshaping his own institution. Yale's Kingman Brewster, though distinctly an activist, is still too new in his job to have time to join the inner group...
Proponents of the plan say there has been no decrease in student-faculty contact at Pierson College. Assistants of Kingman Brewster, President of Yale, did not feel the Hersey appointment will affect faculty acceptance of masterships in the future...
...grant tenure to Associate Philosophy Professor Richard J. Bernstein. He was a capable enough teacher, so the argument went, but he had failed to publish a sufficient number of scholarly papers (TIME, March 12). Bernstein was popular with the Yalies and they raised a ruckus. As a result, President Kingman Brewster Jr. named a committee to look into the whole matter of tenure. Last week, after studying the committee's report, Brewster proposed a new plan for tenure procedures. Henceforth, suggested the president, certain Yale students would be permitted to offer their recommendations on the question of faculty careers...
That unlikely batch, in fact, helped quiet fears that federal participation in education meant federal tyranny. "Words like 'regimentation' or 'control' are bugaboos of a controversy now past," says Yale's Kingman Brewster Jr. M.I.T. Chairman James Killian argues that federal support of new curriculum development has created "more diversity in our school systems, not less, more opportunities of choosing improved ways of teaching, not fewer...
CASE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Kingman Brewster Jr., LL.D., 17th president of Yale University. Almost any Yaleman can become a university president. But only one can be president of Yale, namely, the best...