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Interspersed with singing by the Glee Club, the program carries on with ten-minute addresses by Learned Hand '93, president of the Alumni Association, President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, James Rowland Angell, president of Yale.
One new name has loomed upon the horizon as a possible choice in Professor James Grafton Rogers of the Yale Law School who has also been mentioned as successor to President Angell upon his approaching resignation.
When President Angell went to Yale, the institution was a university largely by courtesy. The Medical School was almost literally a shack. Pathologist Milton Charles ("Nitzy") Winternitz became Dean of the Medical School in 1920. Encouraged by the new President, financed by Rockefeller and University money, he boosted the school...
To President Angell, this is the growth he calls "dramatic." It is not without significance that Yale College, the undergraduate school, got its turn at the trough last. One reason is that the College itself, largely home-ruled, resisted change. Another is that James Angell is not deeply impressed by...
President. An indication of the loneliness of his office rather than any want of humanity on his part is the fact that President Angell will next year reach retirement age (68) without having acquired a nickname at Yale. Many an undergraduate does not recognize him as he plays on the...