Word: rowland
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Engaged. Vera, Countess of Cathcart, fortyish, divorced wife of the late George Cathcart, 5th Earl of Cathcart, previously Vera Fraser of Cape Town, later the widow of Capt. de Grey Warter of the 4th Dragoon Guards; and Sir Rowland Frederic William Hodge, seventyish; famed shipbuilder; in London, a week after the marriage of Lady Cathcart's son Henry de Grey Warter to Mabel Bowers Rean of British vaudeville. In 1926 Lady Cathcart was temporarily refused entry to the U. S. in a famed case of "moral turpitude." Three years prior she had gone to Cape Town with the Earl...
...public learned that Dr. James Rowland Angell, President of Yale University, had been ill in the New Haven hospital since early in July...
Among the many voices raised in Memorial Day oratory last week was that of James Rowland Angell, A.B., A.M., Litt.D., LL.D., President of Yale University. Like many another orator of the day, he decried U. S. chauvinism, legal instability, corruption. But chiefly he indicted U. S. citizens, not their laws or leaders. Excerpt: "It is not primarily faithlessness to public trust, nor corruption in its more overt forms, with which we are menaced. . . . It is rather the sordid and vulgar spirit which at times apparently engulfs the masses of our people, magnifying money and the power which it conveys...
...This year's Pulitzer Prizewinner. The Green Pastures, enthusiastically hailed by critics as the most unusual play of the decade, was backed by able Stockbroker Rowland Stebbins under the name of Laurence Rivers...
College Students. Yale, Clifford Whittingham Beers's college and one of the pioneers among U. S. universities in applying mental hygiene methods to muddled students, has Dr. Arthur Hiler Ruggles as consultant in mental hygiene. Dr. Ruggles, pursuing investigations approved by Yale's President James Rowland Angell, reported that college men and women who need mental treatment need it chiefly because: 1) the competitive side of the educational program puts a strain on the student; 2) adjustment is necessary when the student changes from a small school where he was the leader to a large university where he becomes lost...