Word: rowland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...necessitated by Philanthropist Edward Stephen Harkness' $12,000,000 "house plan" under which Yale's undergraduates are to live in ten communities, each with its own club-rooms, dining-hall, instead of in dormitories. The athletic policy, to begin in September 1933, was outlined by President James Rowland Angell...
...Mother Yale, into whose broad lap have lately dropped many millions for masonry, been asked by the Yale Daily News whither she was listing. Last week at the News's annual banquet given by a new board of editors for the retiring board, Yale's President James Rowland Angell had sly fun asking the News who started Yale's building boom, anyway. He recalled, he said, that the Yale Record (funny fortnightly) had treated itself to a handsome home three years ago. And now the grave News had received and that day had dedicated a new plant...
...Benjamin Rowland, Jr. '28 will do research work in Japan, China, and possibly India next winter under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. He will make a special study of the history of the religion and art of Japan, with the end in view of establishing a course in the history of Oriental art at Harvard, probably under the title, Fine Arts...
While in Japan, Dr. Rowland will work under the guidance of the Institute for Artistic Research at the Imperial University of Tokio, which is the headquarters for the work which is being carried on by the Japanese Government in discovering and preserving ancient works of art on the Islands...
Speaking on the subject of China, Dr. Rowland said that the most important artistic relics of the past are in regions infested with native bandits of the most vicious character, and which have recently seen the slaughter of 100,000 natives in religious wars between Mohammedans and Confucianists...