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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...
...Kingman Brewster, Jr., was officially named the seventeenth president of Yale University by a vote of the Yale Corporation Saturday morning. The announcement ended a five-month search for a successor to A. Whitney Griswold, who died on April...
President Pusey said last night that "everybody at Harvard who knows Kingman Brewster thinks him very able. I am confident he will do an excellent job as Yale's President, and I am looking forward to working with...
...reply of Yale's Acting President Kingman Brewster Jr. to that question, put up to him by the school's Political Union, was no-it would insult and possibly incite New Haven Negroes. Last week the Ivy League fell all over itself to refute Brewster. The Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats invited Wallace to speak there, got a ruling of "no objection" from President Nathan M. Pusey. When the Brown University Daily Herald also invited Wallace, President Barnaby Keeney said that Brown is open to all speakers-"Communists, fascists, racists and bigots." Princeton's Robert Goheen sanctioned...
...feedback got so intense at Yale that law students decided to reinvite Wallace. "Offensive and unwise," said Kingman Brewster, but nevertheless "Yale will not stand in the way." Free speech, it seems, goes for the bad guys as well as the good guys...