The records of Kingman Brewster, Jr., as president of Yale University, provide extensive documentation on the policies, programs, and operations of Yale, from 1963 to 1977. Of particular significance are Brewster's administrative materials, which comprise Series I-III. Maintained by Brewster's office staff, these comprehensive files contain six general types of documentation: files on Yale academic departments, professional schools, and offices; files on Yale programs and issues; daily information on the president's activities, including materials on executive meetings and travel; documents and publications generated by the president and his staff, such as policy memoranda and open letters to the Yale community in draft and final form; correspondence with students, faculty, staff, alumni, non-alumni, and other institutions, such as foundations and governmental research agencies; and solicited and unsolicited materials, such as promotional bulletins, press releases, agency reports, and clippings, sent to the president from institutions or individuals. The most extensively documented topics within the records are academics, admissions, athletics, alumni activities, operating budgets, development and capital campaigning, donations and grants, personnel policy, buildings and grounds, governance, university committees and councils, and issues directly related to student life. Numerous specific topics and events are documented as well, such as ceremonies to commemorate new Yale buildings, outside requests for use of Yale facilities, concerts and tours by Yale musical organizations, and Yale convocations and conferences, to name a few.
