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Yale's late William Lyon Phelps had only one reservation about his friend President Angell. "There should be some dullness in every college president," Phelps once remarked. "Knowing Angell intimately, I have never been able to detect even a shadow of it in him."
Many of them had already tried other work. Said McCormick's Robert W. Henderson: "I'd seen war and I was selling paint. Not that selling paint was wrong, but it wasn't enough." Former Lawyer James W. Angell "never felt law meant anything. Here I'...
Yale had the same problems. Harkness, recognizing this, had tried to sell Yale officials, headed by President James Rowland Angell, on the ability of the "college" plan to keep the advantages of a small college without destroying the advantages of bigness. But, it is believed, Yale distrusted the experiment and...
The purpose of Harkness' gift to Harvard seems to have been to spur Yale officials into seeing his point of view. He tacitly threatened them that he would continue to finance Harvard projects if they wouldn't accept his gift of the colleges. Apparently Yale official-dom saw the light...
Sir Norman Angell, Nobel Peace Prizewinner of 1933, suggested that peace might now be preserved by avoiding a "policy of indefinite retreat before Russian power." "Otherwise," he wrote in The Steep Places (Harper; $3), "there will happen what happened before the second World War: we acquiesce in the advance of...