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Benno C. Schmidt, Jr

(1942–2023) Lawyer

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Benno C. Schmidt, Jr was a lawyer.

Quick Facts About Benno C. Schmidt, Jr

Born: March 20, 1942
Died: July 9, 2023
Profession: Lawyer

About Benno C. Schmidt, Jr

[Wikidata] American academic executive (1942–2023)... | [Wikipedia] Benno Charles Schmidt Jr. was an American academic and education executive. From 1986 to 1992, he was 20th president of Yale University. Prior, Schmidt was Dean of the Columbia Law School, Harlan Fiske Stone, professor of constitutional law, and later as chairman of Edison Schools. He lastly served

Quotes by Benno C. Schmidt, Jr

Privacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is…

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Citizens

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Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into…

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Beauty

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To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

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Colleagues

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Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of…

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Accommodations

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The most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. The assumption seems to be that…

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Assumption

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