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Breeze- "Mr. James Rowland Angell," said the Harvard Alumni Review of sister Yale's new President, ''comes like a breeze from somewhere outside New England." This was only technically true. For although James Rowland Angell matured on the campus of Chicago and was raised on the campus of Michigan, he was born on the campus of Vermont when his father, having edited the Providence, R. I. Journal during the Civil War and taught a spell at Brown, briefly took over the sickly State University at Burlington. James Rowland Angell does not like to have it forgotten that...
...operative ability that most of the prominent men in the New Yale are legacies from the Hadley administration. President Angell's moneyman is canny, thin-lipped George Parmly Day, one-time Manhattan stockbroker, Treasurer of the University since 1910. He founded the University Press, sponsored the Yale Review and in 1927 set an all-time record for academic high finance by striking 22,000 graduates...
...told the Milwaukee court that the suggested price of $3,500 a share was too low, that the same legal firm represents both trustees and prospective purchasers, that the trustees have made no effort to find other buyers for the stock. County appraisers, whose findings are subject to court review, said the stock was worth $5,000 a share...
Also under the Committee's grant, Wolfgang H. Krans, instructor is Government, will write a report on "Judicial Review, Judicial Dissent, and the Modern Republic...
...general strike which had paralyzed trade in Palestine for 40 days. The mayors bluntly refused unless further Jewish immigration were stopped immediately. A compromise was suggested by soft-spoken Assem Bey Sayed, Mayor of Jaffa; Sir Arthur had promised that a British commission would be appointed to review the whole Jewish-Arab problem. If the commission should be appointed at once and if it should decree the end of Jewish immigration until its deliberations were over, then the Arabs could have at least a symbol of victory, the strike would be called...