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Your Quotes for 17 June 2006 - Kingman Brewster

Kingman Brewster, Jr was born at Longmeadow, Massachusetts on this day in 1919. He graduated from Yale in 1941, served as a fighter pilot in the Navy, then got his law degree from Harvard and later joined the law faculty there. Ten years later he became provost at Yale, then president of that school in 1963. While at Yale that school increased admission of blacks, first accepted women, and Brewster's anti-war stance was key to keeping the campus open and peaceful through the Viet Nam era although disenchanted alumni significantly reduced contributions. He served as ambassador to the Court of Saint James from 1977 to 1981 and ended his career as Master of University College at Cambridge.

There is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

Maybe you are the cool generation ... If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.
     - All from Kingman Brewster, Jr, 1919 - 1988

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