the Sam Jackson College Experience

This is text of a speech of President Kingman Brewster, Jr. before the American Council on Education, Washington, D.C., October 8, 1965

"If the ends don't justify the means, what does?"

Boredom is not a newcomer in the halls of academe. But there is a mounting impatience and if we admit it, a new and unpleasant aroma of scorn among some student groups --impatience with education, scorn for educators.

As a Yale student, it's a nice reaffirmation of the resources available when I load the New York Times webpage and find a nice photo of the squash courts in an article about schools with massive endowments. Only in late January, when that happened, it wasn't Yale at all--it was my high school, Phillips Exeter [...]

Sorry about the downtime today--or did no one notice? I have no idea what caused it to happen, but an important WordPress file disappeared off the server entirely and so nothing was working properly until I discovered what was missing and solved it. Really, really strange since I wasn't FTPing anywhere near there and it [...]

As covered by the Yale Daily News, Yale University has elected to continue its Early Action program.I'm not sure I like their reasoning. The decision was made by weighing the benefits of joining Harvard, Princeton, UVA etc. vs. sticking it out with MIT and Stanford (who both vowed to keep Early). Opinions of those watching [...]

I sent my reply card back to New Haven almost as soon as I got it; there was no question that I would be going to Yale next year. It wasn't that way when I sent in my application November 1st, though. So what changed? I would not have applied early if it had been [...]