Word: rowland
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Such esprit comes partly from the fact that Yale is a dynasty, perhaps the most inbred of all the ivy-league colleges. Since 1766 only one president, James Rowland Angell, has been an outsider, and today 55% of its faculty are Yalemen. It also springs from a carefully nurtured sense of responsibility and community service. One result is that Yalemen have sallied forth from New Haven to found or be first presidents of 40-other colleges & universities, until Yale has become the most successful Johnny Appleseed in the educational orchard...
...Porter, might be very invigorating, but it was no time to lose sight of older duties. Thus, for the next four decades, while the rest of the U.S. was exuberantly spawning new schools, new courses, and daring teaching techniques at breathless speed, Yale remained comparatively static. Not until James Rowland Angell blew in from Michigan in 1921 did the new Yale rise, St. Petersburg-fashion, where shops, lots, and dilapidated dorms had been before...
Within the field are a number of first-rate men who are outstanding authorities on their subjects. Deknatel profoundly knows the modern masters, Conant popularly handles architecture and Rowland, Opdycke, Kuhn and Rosenberg are singled out by their students as interesting, able, and informative in their respective fields...
Some strange new names were glowing on movie marquees last week-Betty ("Ball of Fire") Rowland, Genii Young, Deenah Prince-and there were stranger things inside. In such films as International Burlesque, a New York outfit named Jewel Productions was profitably peddling a-brand-new movie line: old-fashioned flesh-and-spangle shows straight from the burlesque stage, converted to the screen with slight additions to the costumes and subtractions from the gags...
Missionaries have now become a serious embarrassment to their Chinese Christian friends. This is one of the reasons why most U.S. Protestant missionaries are pulling out of China, according to Dr. Rowland M. Cross, Far Eastern missions secretary of the National Council of Churches...