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...Kingman Brewster Jr. president of , yesterday announced his support of Tenure Appointments Committee's to grant tenure to Richard J. , associate professor of philosophy...
...Committee's statement, released Thursday night was prompted largely by Yale students who picketed the office of President Kingman Brewster Jr. for ever three days this week. The students have questioned whether a "creative bleacher"--Bernstein--could properly be refused tenure on the reported ground that he has not published enough books...
Yale students began a round-the-clock picketing vigil outside president Kingman Brewster Jr.'s office Monday to protest the dismissal of a popular professor in philosophy...
Yale was deeply embarrassed a year ago when Kingman Brewster, then acting president, persuaded students to cancel a speaking invitation to Alabama's Governor George Wallace; and now "the administration suffers in agonizing silence rather than tamper with free speech and action" says Yale Daily News Chairman Alexander Sharp. When Princeton undergraduates invited Alger Hiss to the campus in 1956, prompting hundreds of irate letters from alumni, then-President Harold Willis Dodds refused to intervene. "We have sought to resolve this problem not in terms of academic freedom, but in the deeper terms of human freedom," he said...
Harvard? Except as an institution on the fringe of an academic community headed by Yale, it rarely comes up. And Kingman Brewster ("An Ivy League Cary Grant") comes out considerably ahead of President Pusey, who "maintains an aloofness that disturbs many members of his Faculty. ('I hope that Nate's second ten years at Harvard are happier than his first,' says an Ivy League colleague...