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It took the only president of Yale since 1766 who was not a Yale graduate to get the New Haven college (actually a university since 1887) on the move again. During his tenure in office from 1921 to 1937, James Rowland Angell of Michigan probably did more to produce the...
During the early part of the term the main topic of conversation around the Memorial Hall dining room was the situation down at Yale. President Angell had greeted the incoming freshmen with the dictum that either they observed prohibition or face dismissal. "The University will not permit dissipation. No man...
As if waiting for the sound solution, Yale characteristically held aloof. The "breeze now blowing," said President Noah Porter, might be very invigorating, but it was no time to lose sight of older duties. Thus, for the next four decades, while the rest of the U.S. was exuberantly spawning new...
New Geography. Yale's transformation into a true university had started under Angell's predecessor, Economist Arthur Twining Hadley, '76, Yale's Grand Old Man (of whom a colleague once said: "He thinks in Hebrew; reasons in Latin, spins you a joke in Greek"). Angell completed...
It was during the age of Angell that a freshman named Whitney Griswold moved into the old freshman Oval. He had come from Morristown, N.J., with generations of Yalemen behind him, the son of a New York insurance broker who would leave for work in Manhattan each morning before daylight...