Word: rowland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Where the swarming of Harvard graduates over Connecticut will end is by no means clear in the vision of Yale men. The report that Prof. James Rowland Angell, a Harvard graduate, has been chosen president of Yale by the university corporation has intensified a situation which has been growing complicated for several years...
...James Rowland Angell, A.M. '92, Professor of Psychology, and known as an administrator of exceptional ability, was chosen as President of Yale University at a meeting of the corporation on Saturday. He succeeds President Arthur T. Hadley, whose resignation last April has caused the Yale Corporation strenuous work over a period of ten months in choosing a successor. For the first time in its history Yale will have a chief executive who has not been connected with the university as a student, for Dr. Angell, a graduate of the University of Michigan, and the holder of an A.M. degree from...
Yale is very fortunate in having a man of such excellent ability and such broad administrative experience as Dr. James Rowland Angell to succeed President Hadley. The Yale Corporation, after nearly a year's study and a consideration of some eighty of the most learned men of our country, decided on Dr. Angell, the son of the late President of the University of Michigan, as the best qualified and most competent for its new leader...