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  In and Out - The Boston Globe
Kingman Brewster Jr., president of Yale from 1963 to 1977, also merits Karabel's praise for resisting pressure to admit more legacies and, notably, for offering greater opportunity for African-American students and improving race relations on campus.
Brewster's impact on Yale and its competitors in the Ivy League was considerable, but the changes to their admissions policies were hardly a tectonic shift in American higher education.
Brewster was not setting a precedent by awarding an honorary doctorate to King, who had earned a doctorate nine years earlier from BU, open to African-Americans from its founding in 1839.
www.boston.com /news/education/higher/articles/2005/10/30/in_and_out   (1620 words)

  
 Yale Alumni Magazine
Brewster was being brought to new insights by heading a great university in the midst of social turmoil, partly because one of the instigators of the turmoil worked on his own campus.
Brewster prepared for the Corporation meeting on Coffin partly by asking Coffin's faculty deacons, through historian Harry Rudin '19, '31PhD, whether Coffin "was fulfilling his obligations as chaplain." The other chaplains, Rudin reported, "explained to me that he was a tremendous power in the religious life of the campus.
Brewster's biographer argues persuasively that he had undertaken to "redefine the purpose of first-rank national institutions like Yale." (As Brewster once put it, "I do not intend to preside over a finishing school on Long Island Sound.") Coffin figured prominently in these thoughts.
www.yalealumnimagazine.com /issues/2004_03/coffin.html   (4026 words)

  
 History News Network
Brewster's problem with today's team wouldn't have been partisan; he and many in his circle were Republicans, albeit of a genus now extinct.
Brewster was the most expressive and innovative of the group, and Kabaservice credits partly his youthful rites of passage as a sailing champion off his ancestral Martha's Vineyard.
In the book's climax, Brewster's college, still the ancient temple of a national WASP elite but by then also a modern template for a new leadership training, becomes for two years the national stage on which that leadership is tested.
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 AllRefer.com - Brewster, Kingman, Jr. (Education, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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He was a professor of law at Harvard (1950–60) and president of Yale (1963–77), where as an opponent of the Vietnam War, he skillfully handled student demonstrations during that turbulent period.
Brewster remained in London as the representative of American law firm.
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 Office of Public Affairs at Yale - News Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Brewster was named Provost of Yale and they resided at 55 Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven.
Before his term as President of Yale came to an end in 1977, Kingman Brewster became known for the improvements he made to Yale's faculty, curriculum, and admissions policies, and for his resourceful handling of student protests against the Vietnam War.
Brewster is survived by five children: Constance Dedelow, Kingman Brewster, Jr., Deborah, Alden and Riley, and 11 grandchildren.
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 Fashion Newsrat: Your Source for Fashion News on Kingman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Kingman Newspapers Online - Top Stories Nov 28, 2003 Kingman's state representative, Joe Hart, is one of 25 state legislators who support a citizens' initiative that would require proof of US citizenship to...
Kingman police are still investigating the damage, which resulted in 33 criminal damage reports being filed.
The mayoral applicants at a glance Dec 16, 2003 Kingman said a consolidated city and county government is on the horizon because of its efficiency.
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 The Guardians : Kingman Brewster, His Circle, and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Guardians : Kingman Brewster, His Circle, and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment Review: This was an informative book, however it is another example of the misuse of the word "liberal" and how the word has deteriorated to mean the opposite of what it originally meant: liberty, lack of government, laissez-faire capitalism.
Brewster's activism began back when he was a big man on campus as a Yale undergraduate.
Kingman Brewster was an important American who held an important position as Yale University president.
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 Guide to the Inventory of Kingman Brewster, Jr., Presidential Records, 1941-1977 (Record Unit 11) : Finding Aid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Between degrees, Brewster served in World War II as a naval aviator and was released from active duty in 1945 with the rank of lieutenant.
The Brewster administration is generally praised for its progressive initiatives and innovative new academic programs, in spite of the increasing burden it placed on the operating budget as a result.
Brewster himself was considered friendly, energetic, accessible, and loyal to the faculty, staff, and students.
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 Crafting Leaders at Yale - The Politic - Features   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Kingman Brewster Jr., the grand, wily, wacky eminence who ran Yale from 1964 to 1977, wanted it to produce each year 1,000 "leaders in their generation...
Brewster's problem with today's team wouldn't have been partisan; he and many in his circle were Republicans, albeit of a moderate genus now almost extinct.
Brewster's crewmates included fellow Yale undergrads McGeorge Bundy, the Vietnam War national security advisor and later Ford Foundation president; Cyrus Vance, the roving ambassador, domestic mediator extraordinaire and Jimmy Carter's secretary of state; New York Mayor John Lindsay; and New York's Episcopal Bishop Paul Moore Jr.
www.thepolitic.org /news/2004/12/05/Features/Crafting.Leaders.At.Yale-815500.shtml   (1518 words)

  
 The Guardians : Kingman Brewster, His Circle, and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment, Henry Holt and Co., Geoffrey ...
In a narrative that is as engaging and lively as it is meticulously researched, The Guardians judiciously and convincingly reclaims the importance of Brewster and his generation, illuminating their vital place in American history as the bridge between the old establishment and modern liberalism.
This is a very interesting, but quite long, book which focuses upon Kingman Brewster and other members of the so-called "liberal establishment" that shaped national policy during the 1945 through 1970's period.
Although he is almost forgotten today, Kingman Brewster who was the president of Yale from 1963-1977 was in fact an important figure in recent American history.
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 Kingman Brewster, Jr. --  Encyclopædia Britannica
American educator and diplomat who as president of Yale University (1963–77) was noted for the improvements made to that school's faculty, curriculum, and admissions policies.
Brewster was educated at a private school in Boston and at Yale University.
The Puritan views that made William Brewster one of the leaders of the Pilgrims were acquired while he was a student at Cambridge University, in England.
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 Yale and the Vietnam War
Brewster told Coffin that the chapel was university property and thus under control of the Yale Corporation; as chaplain Coffin was a university employee directly responsible to the President and Corporation; and in his role pastor of the Church of Christ at Yale he was responsible to the senior deacons.
Brewster ordered Powell not to investigate or maintain records on the political views or activities of students or faculty or to provide Information to outside authorities "except when requested In the course of a legitimate investigation or enforcement action."37 Clear enough.
When it came to the Vietnam war, Kingman Brewster, as we have seen, tried to balance academic freedom as he understood it with the need to listen to the opponents of dissent as well as to the dissenters.
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 Research tools: On-line finding aids   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The presidential records of Kingman Brewster, Jr., included within this record unit (325.3 linear feet) are arranged in nine series and provide extensive documentation on the policies, programs, and operations of Yale University, 1963-1977.
Kingman Brewster, Jr., the seventeenth president of Yale University, was born on 17 June 1919 in Longmeadow, Massachusetts.
Brewster taught on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) faculty, 1949-1950, and on the Harvard Law School faculty, 1950-1960, being promoted to full professor in 1953.
www.library.yale.edu /mssa/rt_findaid_ru_05.html   (256 words)

  
 Nat' Academies Press, The Door in the Dream: Conversations with Eminent Women in Science (2000)
In 1968 the president of Yale, Kingman Brewster, Jr., asked me to oversee the transformation of Yale College, then all-male, into a co-educational institution and to take whatever steps were needed to make Yale “a good place for women.” For the next four years I urged Yale to add women to its faculty.
Brewster, trying to keep all parties happy, proposed that I serve as Yale's “Special Assistant to the President on the Education of Women and Chairman of the Committee on Coeducation.” This was 1968, and I reluctantly agreed to this less than elegant title.
Henry Chauncey, Jr., the secretary of the university, Brewster's right-hand man, and an old Blue who knew how Yale functioned, proved to be an enthusiastic mentor and adviser to me. I doubt whether I would have been able to find my way through the maze of such an established institution without his guidance and encouragement.
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 Encyclopedia: Brewster
Brewster is the name of some places in the United States:
Brewster is also a common surname, and less common first name:
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Brewster   (135 words)

  
 YAM May 2001 - Vintage
While the new ruling may reduce the number of "idle applications" (those from persons who have little or no intention of matriculating at Yale), the move was made primarily from financial necessity.
At present, the cost to the University is estimated at $20 for each applicant and $80 for each matriculant.
Brewster addressed the 1,350 men and women as "freshpersons." Now some students wonder if they should refer to Mr.
www.yalealumnimagazine.com /issues/01_05/vintage.html   (401 words)

  
 Kingman Brewster, Jr. Biography / Biography of Kingman Brewster, Jr. Biography Biography
Kingman Brewster, Jr., was born June 17, 1919, in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, to Kingman Brewster and Florence Besse Brewster, descendants of one of the state's first families.
Following graduation from Belmont High School, Brewster entered Yale in 1937 and graduated with an A.B. in 1941.
As a student he was an isolationist and a supporter of "America First" and once invited Charles Lindburgh to speak on campus.
www.bookrags.com /biography-kingman-brewster-jr/index.html   (209 words)

  
 Guide to the Inventory of Resignation of Kingman Brewster, Jr., Records, 1977 (Record Unit 14) : Finding Aid
Yale University, Office of the President, Resignation of Kingman Brewster, Jr., Records (YRU 14) Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
On 17 May 1977 the academic year closed with Kingman Brewster, Jr.'s, resignation from office to become ambassador to the Court of St. James under President Jimmy Carter.
The records consist of Brewster's handwritten resignation letter, as well as other writings in his honor.
webtext.library.yale.edu /xml2html/mssa.ru14.con.html   (207 words)

  
 Keepers of the crypt
While conspiracy theorists may run with the idea of a secret ruling junta nestled in the heart of Yale, others see the Bones ties as evidence of something less suspicious but still significant - that despite some populist political successes, America still relies heavily on established networks of influence and power and connection.
Kingman Brewster Jr., Yale's president when Bush was a student, was a hero on some parts of the campus for turning down Bones when he was tapped nearly three decades before.
Rex Cowdry is the associate director of the National Economic Council and Robert McCallum Jr.
www.propagandamatrix.com /230304keepersofthecrypt.html   (2557 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - The Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Circle, and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment ...
Well, yes, because this deftly woven portrait of Brewster and his close friends — McGeorge Bundy, Elliot Richardson, John Lindsay, Cyrus Vance, and Paul Moore — is among the most revealing books ever written about the liberal establishment.
The author is plainly nostalgic for the leadership and style of these fellows, who he believes were justified in seeing themselves, by virtue of their breeding and abilities, as the country's guardians.
Brewster and Richardson admitted that they didn't like to read — they preferred to get their ideas from schmoozing.
www.powells.com /review/2004_06_01.html   (387 words)

  
 Yale Bulletin and Calendar
Mary Louise Brewster, widow of Yale's 17th president, Kingman Brewster, died April 14 at her home in Combe, Berkshire, England, at age 83.
In 1963, when Brewster became Yale's president, they moved to the President's House at 43 Hillhouse Ave.
Later, the two moved to the United Kingdom, where Brewster served as U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James from 1977 to 1981 and later as master of University College, University of Oxford, from 1986 until his death there in 1988.
www.yale.edu /opa/v32.n27/story17.html   (377 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Brewster
Essex County, N.Y. Justice of New York Supreme Court 4th District, 1933-49; Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 3rd Department, 1945-49.
Brewster, S. — of Troy, Doniphan County, Kan. Republican.
Son of Abither B. Brewster and Clara (Warren) Brewster; married 1883 to Carrie S. Bridges; father of Ralph Owen Brewster.
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 Brewster New York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Brewster is the name of some places in the United States :
Brewster, is the name for a female brewer
Note: unsuccessful searches are often caused by searching for common words like "have" and "from", which are notindexed.
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 Written biography of Kingman Brewster, Jr. | Life of Kingman Brewster, Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He then served as ambassador to Great Britain for four years.Kingman Brewster, Jr., was born June 17, 1919, in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, to Kingman Brewster and Florence Besse Brewster, descendants of one of the state's first families.
In 1997 Brewster was honored with an exhibit at Yale's Sterling Memorial Library, Innovation and Diversification: Yale during the Kingman Brewster Jr.
He was the subject of several articles in TIME, Newsweek, The New Republic, and similar periodicals at the time he became president of Yale and upon appointment as ambassador to Great Britain.
www.newessay.com /biographies/Kingman_Brewster_Jr-31586.html   (320 words)

  
 Kingman --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The city was named for Lewis Kingman, a civil engineer for what was then the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad constructed there in the 1880s.
Ghost towns in the area attest to the lode mines that once yielded many...
By the late 1980s more than 50 museums—including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts—had acquired his works, as had several notable private collections.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9045534?tocId=9045534&query=null&ct=null   (526 words)

  
 Vassar History, 1966-1967
President Kingman Brewster, Jr., of Yale said: 'I am very pleased that Vassar has accepted our invitation to a joint study.
Kingman Brewster, President of Yale, addressed 1,000 Yale alumnae concerning the proposed Yale-Vassar study.
Yale president Kingman Brewster addressed Vassar faculty on Yale's vision for coordinate education.
faculty.vassar.edu /daniels/1966_1967.html   (2706 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Kingman Brewster Jr., Pres- ident of Yale, wrote "the major- ity is not sufficiently interested- in devoting their time and attend tion to the running of the uni- versity to make it likely that 'participatory' democracy will be truly democratic.
The students who are willing to spend their time in a contingUoi effort to influence decisions are needed.
An alternative to the idea of a representative or a participatory democracy, is presented by King- man Brewster as administrative accountability.
www-tech.mit.edu /archives/VOL_090/TECH_V090_S0194_P005.txt   (1417 words)

  
 Brewster Wallpaper Company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Wallpaper can be traced back to 200BC when the Chinese, inventors of paper itself, pasted rice paper on their walls.Wallpapers that we know of today, with block designs in continous patterns, weren't used until 1675 by a French engraver, JeanPapillon.
A company in the broadest sense is an aggregation of people who stay together for a common purpose.
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 Guide to the Inventory of Inauguration of Kingman Brewster, Jr., Records, 1959-1960, 1963-1964 (Record Unit 13) : ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Guide to the Inventory of Inauguration of Kingman Brewster, Jr., Records, 1959-1960, 1963-1964
Yale University, Office of the President, Inauguration of Kingman Brewster, Jr., Records (YRU 13).
Kingman Brewster, Jr., was inaugurated the seventeenth president of Yale University on 11 April 1964.
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