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Adams House: Edwin I. Brainard '35, Chairman; Robert R. McGoodwin '35; Merle W. Hart '35; Richard B. Johnson '36; John B. Rowland...
...Cabell, Willa Gather, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, Evelyn Scott, Edith Wharton, Glenway Wescott, Thornton Wilder. Readers may raise puzzled eyebrows at lesser-known names: Carl Becker, Albert Halper, Eleanor Rowland Wembridge. Nowhere to be found are such names as Upton Sinclair, Conrad Allen, Hervey Allen, Louis Bromfield, Walter Lippmann, T. S. Stribling. Looking back on his collection Anthologist Van Doren proudly says: "American literature has grown up. It deals with all the topics that literature deals with anywhere...
Yale's James Rowland Angell: As I meet American college graduates, nothing is more depressing than to remark the astonishing number who give absolutely no suggestion of intelligent acquaintance with anything whatever outside the range of business and sport. Indeed, did they not assure you that they were sons of Dear Old Siwash, you would never of your own initiative have made that inference...
...President Conant was to preside for the first time over a commencement of his own, with frosty President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell back to talk to some 650 seniors about "War and the League of Nations." Yalemen were wondering how many more commencements would be graced by President James Rowland Angell, 65. At this, his 13th, he was to preach the baccalaureate, award an LL. D. to President Roosevelt' (see p. 48), send away some 600 seniors. Joseph Sweetman Ames. 69, who has been student, professor and finally president at Johns Hopkins since 1883, was leaving no doubt...
...York University (New York N. Y.) President James Rowland Angell of yale.... LL.D. President James Bryant Conant of Harvard..... LL.D. President Harold Willis Dodds of Princeton....LL.D. Thomas William Lamont..... LL.D. Baritone Lawrence Mervil Tibbett. . . D.Mus...