Word: rowland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potent body of Yale alumni and to the world of U. S. Education, the New Haven ceremonies had an even wider significance. Having supervised a period of expansion the like of which he could not have dreamed of when he took office a decade and a half ago, James Rowland Angell, father of the New Yale, was beginning the penultimate year of his epic administration...
Unknowns- In 1921 Yale turned out with brass bands and welcoming streamers to greet its new President James Rowland Angell. It was a meeting of two unknown quantities. Of the two, Yale was by far the more perplexing. A hectic period of social and spiritual campus unrest, later identified as the Jazz Age, had just begun. And in the teeth of it, the nation's Second School had just undergone a sweeping reorganization at the hands of a committee of faculty and trustees headed by Publisher Henry Johnson Fisher of McCall's and the University's Secretary...
When the Corporation announced that Yale's next President would be James Rowland Angell, Michigan '90, a large body of alumni, who felt that no one could cherish Good Old Yale but a Good Old Yaleman, were stricken with grief and shame. Few had the perspicacity to divine that now if ever was the time Yale needed the unemotional guidance of a man who, like a foreigner in the Orient, would not be judged too severely for short-cutting an unwieldy mass of custom and precedent. An Angell might march boldly in where an alumnus President would timidly...
...Yale in 1921, however, James Rowland Angell was, as in a measure he still remains, an unknown indeed. Faculty scientists heard that he had been a psychologist, pupil of John Dewey at Michigan, student of William James and Josiah Royce at Harvard, one of the first of the bright young men who went to Germany to explore what was, at the century's turn, an exciting new field of learning. Administrative officers of the University knew that President-elect Angell had long since given up pure scholarship to become faculty dean and acting president of the University of Chicago...
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...