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Other Yalemen would have agreed. When James Rowland Angell, amidst blaring bands and welcoming streamers, arrived in New Haven in 1921, he was the first non-Eli since 1766 to have been elected president of Yale - and Yale was never the same thereafter. For 16 years -through the roaring '20s, the big depression and the first days of the New Deal -Angell kept things stirring and growing. He built 37 new buildings on campus, nearly quadrupled Yale's endowment (from $25 million to $95 million...
Karl Terzaghi, professor of the Practice of Civil Engineering, will receive the Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize for his work on a paper on shipways at the three day convention of the American Society of Civil Engineers starting tomorrow in New York...
Severed Ties. Journalist Robert Root has said that a new type of missionary will have to be developed for China (TIME, Nov. 15). The Rev. Rowland M. Cross, secretary of the Foreign Missions Conference China committee, said last week: "There will certainly be a trend in the direction of specialization. Those who know a trade will be at a great advantage. The boards are even considering the desirability of using celibate missionaries...
...Rowland C. W. Brown '45 2L was elected president of the Harvard Law School Forum yesterday. He will serve under the group's new "policy board" system of administration which came as a result of the expanded activities of the group this fall...
Heiskell's tolerance also permits a daily column in the staid Gazette by Hardy ("Spider") Rowland, a cigar-chomping, self-confessed sinner who used to run a suburban gambling house. Spider writes about his bouts with "wobble water," refers to young girls as "quails," and brags about his encounters with the law. Spider wrote in a recent column: "I attribute my outstanding ability to kiss to blowing a bugle for a couple of years with the Boy Scouts...