Word: provosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of the students and faculty at Yale, husky, engaging Kingman Brewster Jr., 44, has long been the odds-on favorite to succeed President A. Whitney Griswold who died of cancer last April. As university provost and thus Yale's No. 2 faculty officer since 1961, Brewster had proved to be a. hardworking combination of scholar and administrator, and succeeded in charming New Haven in the bargain. But there were dark rumors of dissent among the 16 members of the arcane council that had the power of final decision, the Yale Corporation. For one thing, academic purists pointed...
...doing to my alma mater?" Brewster would roar, joshing Griswold about student riots at New Haven, losing football teams or his presidential speeches. When the rumor spread that Brewster was under consideration as next dean of the Harvard Law School, Griswold in 1960 offered Brewster Yale's provost job. "The idea came to me as a surprise," says Brewster, but he promptly accepted...
After ten years on the faculty, and seven as a full professor of Law, Brewster became provost at Yale in 1960 at the request of his personal friend, President Griswold...
...former professor at the Harvard Law School, Brewster had been serving as acting president since Griswold's death. He had been Provost of Yale since...
...Haven, four days of frantic maneuvering produced a "decision" by two law school groups to issue a new invitation for Wallace to visit Yale. But the groups will first seek approval from Kingman Brewster, Jr., provost and acting president, who forced the cancellation of an earlier invitation by the Yale Political Union on the grounds that Wallace's presence in New Haven might provoke violence...