Davis: Neither lux nor veritas 11.02.09
In September 1963, the first words I heard as a Yale freshman from Kingman Brewster Jr., the provost of Yale and later the University’s president, were “Lux et Veritas” or “light and truth.” These two words, he said, had been Yale’s motto for more than 250 years and constituted Yale’s core values. We had an obligation — we were, in effect, trustees — to protect them not just for our generation and future generations but for those past too.
