The Nation - News from Dec. 10, 1985
Yale University will announce today that Benno C. Schmidt Jr., dean of Columbia University Law School and a constitutional scholar, has been selected to be its 20th president, sources close to Yale said. Schmidt, 43, a Yale graduate, will succeed A. Bartlett Giamatti, who said in April that he will resign next June, after eight years as Yale’s president.
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