Word: rowland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Three Chevaliers of the Latin Quarter were there-F. A. Bridgman, the 79-year-old Alabaman who paints in Algiers mostly and won his first salon medal in 1877; George Rowland of New York, aged 61, landscapist; and T. Alexander Harrison, 73, originally a Philadelphian but, like the other two, so long a resident of France that his hands have learned to talk, and the feeling of his landscapes takes you back to the best days of the Barbizon school. All three are members of the Legion d'Honneur; all three have contributed to the spring salon since...
President James Rowland Angell's annual report was published. This voiced the current conviction of administrators that college is at once too easy and too narrow for the student. President Angell placed his blame back on the preparatory schools and the parents; declared that young men should be graduated from college at least two years younger (at 19); deplored "lockstep" systems and indicated intensity as the desirable concomitant to more liberal teaching methods. The general tenor of the report was, "Give them liberty, but give them work." Interesting specifications were: "Too long and possibly too many vacations. . . . Too many...
Advice to the freshmen of Yale University by President James Rowland Angell: "On entering a college group, one is instantly subjected to social pressure toward conformity. . . .The experience may be distressing, but if you are worthy to be Yale men it will be wholesome. If you have no backbone, you will be carried hither and yon by every kind of fugitive opinion...
...James Rowland Angell, president of Yale University, will deliver the Baccalaureate sermon on Sunday, June 14. The annual meeting of Yale in China will be the most important event also to be held on Sunday, with the announcement of the Yale men who have been chosen to teach at the Yale school in China next year...
...Aged men should be silent, if possible, occasionally, as to politics, religion, education and science. But old men, if they have not lived in seclusion, should know something of manners. I bow before Dr. Angell [President James Rowland Angell] and his office; but he is young; and I may bend, from the frosty pinnacle of my great age, to speak to him, with paternal frankness, as to certain matters of ceremony...