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"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."

Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Kingman Brewster Jr. was an American educator, academic and diplomat. He served as the 17th president of Yale University, United States ambassador to the United Kingdom, and Master of University College, Oxford.
"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."
"The newspaper fits the reader’s program while the listener must fit the broadcaster’s program."
"You and I know that 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."
"There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation."
"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it’s quite conscious."