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...Williams, James Phinney Baxter, 3rd, formerly professor of History and master of Adams House here, will be inducted as President as he listens to President-emeritus Lowell deliver the most important address of the occasion...
...head is an event of interest; but for three schools to choose the same day to inaugurate new regimes is unusual. It is not an easy task to find men capable of running institutions worth millions of dollars. The fact that three such men, Charles Seymour at Yale, James Phinney Baxter at Williams, and Edmund Day at Cornell, have shown the necessary qualifications for these exacting positions, is vital in itself. It shows that right now, this year, there are being produced and are available men of highest intellectual type, able to take on and continue the strong policies...
...James Phinney Baxter, former master of Adams House and professor of American Diplomatic History here, will succeed Dr. Dennett as President of Williams, also on the same day. He was appointed to be President in the middle of the summer...
...thoroughly impatient with "bureaucracy." But no one thought that Tyler Dennett, an able, searching scholar whose John Hay biography won the 1933 Pulitzer Prize, would find it hard to get another job. This week the trustees elected as his successor one of their own number, Alumnus James Phinney Baxter III ('14). A great friend "of Tyler Dennett, who he recommended to Williams' trustees three years ago as earnestly as Tyler Dennett was recommending him. Trustee Baxter was salmon-fishing in his native Maine during the entire fuss. Plainspoken. loyal Friend Baxter immediately announced that in educational matters...
...drafted for a weenie roast on the beach at San Diego, innocently sings the leathernecks' sweethearts into acquiescence. For this patriotic service he is rewarded with a trip to Manhattan and a radio tryout on what is obviously Major Bowes's amateur hour. Managed by Aeneas Phinney (Hugh Herbert), he embarks upon a U. S. radio career as the "Singing Marine" until ordered to the Shanghai station...