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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After studying in Germany, he returned in 1879 to join the Yale faculty as a tutor. Twenty years later he became Yale's 13th President, stipulating that he must be retired when 65. Under his regime the institution took an unprecedented scholastic polish. Its endowment was doubled. To wife he took, in 1891, Helen Harrison Morris of New Haven, whose father had been a Connecticut governor. Both his sons, Hamilton and Morris, were raised good Yalemen. Fulfilling his inaugural request, he was made President Emeritus...
Asked if he would join the campaign of, intensive civil disobedience which the nationalist Mahatma Gandhi is now threatening to launch against the viceroy in India, Krishnamurti replied. "I would take no part in politics. I do not think of myself as a citizen of any country." He did, however, state that he believes India fit for self-rule, assuming she is safe from foreign invasion...
...first release of the material already gathered which will appear in the Princetonian's columns on Tuesday morning will be followed by expressions of opinion from other campus newspapers, some of whom have already signified their intention to join in the nationwide undergraduate survey of drinking conditions and student sentiment...
...will not join with the CRIMSON in its anti-Volstead crusade. The reason for not taking part in the movement is not that we disapprove of the object which the CRIMSON desires to attain. We believe, however, that a college newspaper exists for two purposes: to bring news items of general college interest to the students and to influence campus opinion as much as may be possible on topics pertaining to college. The discussion of national problems can find no legitimate place in the columns of the News-Letter or in any other college sheet except those published by certain...