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...vacationing on Martha's Vineyard with his wife and five children that Mother Yale beckoned. Sailing and walking the beaches with Yale President A. Whitney Griswold, he became a close friend over the years, and Griswold lured him back to New Haven in 1960 to become provost...
Brewster, who had served as Yale's provost under A. Whitney Griswold, insisted in his inaugural address that private universities must remain independent of both government and private business and suggested the formation of a "Peace Reserve Training Corps" on the model of existing ROTC programs...
...graduate of the Harvard Law School, Brewster was a professor of Law here before becoming provost. He is the first man not holding an earned doctorate to head Yale in this century...
...Provost of the University from 1945 to 1953. Buck was acting President during President Conant's wartime government service and again during the interim between the Conant and Pusey administrations...
...Carnegie Institution of Washington warned last week that Big Science crash projects threaten to create "massive imbalances" in U.S. research. The Ph.D. drive also alarms liberal arts colleges that cannot compete with big universities for research-minded students and professors. What is happening, asks Columbia University's Provost Jacques Barzun, "to the beautiful notion of developing the imaginative and the reasoning powers apart from marketable skill?" In a day when "one sheepskin to one sheep is no longer enough," he says, "the liberal arts tradition is dead or dying"-a victim of the pressure for college work in high...