Education: The Humanist
Yale reaches for an Old Blue
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"Smart move," said a faculty member.
"Instead of importing some managerial type, they got a humanist to
soften the blow." The humanist in question is A. (for Angelo)
Bartlett Giamatti, 39, a Yale professor of Renaissance literature, who
last week was named 19th president of the university after a nine-month
search almost as much talked about as David O. Selznick's pursuit of
the perfect Scarlett O'Hara. The blow that he will have to soften is a
painful but inevitable cutback on spending.