Yale-NUS College, the new Asian liberal-arts institution born of a collaboration between the National University of Singapore and Yale University, is looking inward for its inaugural president. Pericles Lewis, a Yale professor of English and comparative literature who has played a key role in planning the curriculum and hiring faculty for the new university, will be its first leader. Mr. Lewis's appointment was announced Wednesday in Singapore by Richard C. Levin, Yale's president, and Tan Chorh Chuan, president of the National University of Singapore. A joint Yale-NUS search committee co...