A place for safe ‘ruthless examination’

“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 (1919-1988), president of Yale University, 1963-1977) and U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom, 1977-1981. He was thought to have inspired Garry Trudeau's fictional character President King in the comic strip Doonesbury.