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Many a sportsman has his pilot's license, his private plane. But not until last week could he look forward to the prospect of a day at his flying country club. Miss Ruth Rowland Nichols, Junior Leaguer of Rye, N. Y., enthusiastic amateur aviatrix with a non-stop flight from New York to Miami to her credit, shouldered the task of promoting three clubs in New York and New Jersey, forerunners of a nation-wide chain of private and exclusive country clubs devoted to aeronautical sports. Associated with Promoter Nichols are such younger capitalists as William A. Rockefeller, William...
...George Rowland Blades, recent (1926-27) Lord Mayor of London, and esteemed head of a firm of stationery manufacturers and banknote printers...
Headmaster Alfred Ernest Stearns of Andover presented President and Mrs. Coolidge with gold medals in commemoration of the occasion, in the presence of Educators Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth, Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard, James Rowland Angell of Yale...
...Haven, Conn., May 14.--Yale will not be entered as an opponent of the Harvard Flying Club in the intercollegiate airplane races to be held at Mitchell Field, Long Island, in June, as a result of a decision recently given out by President James Rowland Angell. According to the announcement, no undergraduate will be allowed to participate in any airplane races, for an indefinite period of time...
...Haven, Conn., March 27--President James Rowland Angell of Yale an nounced today that the Corporation had voted to honor the memory of two Yale graduates of the eighteenth century, who became the first presidents of Princeton and Dartmouth, by naming the dormitory buildings now located at York and Library Streets. Dickinson Hall and Wheelock Hall. Funds for the erection of these buildings were provid by a bequest made to Yale by the late M. Judson of Bridgeport. Conn...