Word: jameses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other Yalemen would have agreed. When James Rowland Angell, amidst blaring bands and welcoming streamers, arrived in New Haven in 1921, he was the first non-Eli since 1766 to have been elected president of Yale - and Yale was never the same thereafter. For 16 years -through the roaring '...
The grandson of a college president (Alexis Caswell of Brown) and the son of another (James Burrill Angell of the University of Michigan), James Angell had spent his whole life on campuses. He had been a pupil of John Dewey at Michigan, a student of William James at Harvard, finally...
It was after his retirement in 1937 that Yalemen got to know him better, for President Emeritus Angell seldom missed a chance to return to campus. He was an honored guest at all Yale functions, made speeches with a wit that seemed to mellow with age. Last month, though incurably...
The Rev. John Howard Melish, 74, rector of Brooklyn's Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity, got his walking papers last week, but he declined to budge. His bishop fired him, but Rector Melish came right back with the observation that the bishop had no right to do such...
NBC was not limiting itself, said Trammell, to buying up a few expensive shows "for this season at the expense of the future." That other network, he noted, had had to borrow $5,000,000 to bring off its coups. And besides, radio couldn't be "satisfied indefinitely with...