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Interspersed with singing by the Glee Club, the program carries on with ten-minute addresses by Learned Hand '93, president of the Alumni Association, President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, James Rowland Angell, president of Yale...
Undertaker Harry H. Shaw of Columbus, Ohio, chairman of the air rates committee of the National Funeral Directors Association, revealed that he had been dickering for years for special rates with airlines. But Undertaker Howard Rowland of St. Louis was the convention sensation, bringing a cadaver for autopsy in his own Stinson monoplane, which he uses several times a month to carry dead or dying persons home. Undertaker Rowland scoffs at the convention suggestion that aerial funerals may become a fad as rising land values force cemeteries farther away from cities. According to him, the only aerial funerals...
...husbandry. The faculty supervises the breeding of strong academic stock. Rich friends and alumni see that stock is materially nourished. The president, however, must exercise constant broad vigilance lest the flock's young and the flock's runts be driven from the trough and starve. Surveying James Rowland Angell's 15 years in the President's office in Woodbridge Hall, the most acquisitive Yale alumnus cannot quibble at the tremendous wealth that has fallen to Yale. Since taking office. President Angell has doubled ($3,098,000 to $6,900,000) the amount annually expended for maintenance...
...Yale has undergone its greatest material changes takes no special credit for them, modestly insists that he was simply sitting in Woodbridge Hall when the money rolled in. It is rather by the men who have surrounded him and their strictly educative works during this exciting period that James Rowland Angell would like to be judged...
First rebuttal came from the Journal's Promotion Editor Wallace W. ("Brownie") Rowland, who had worked on the paper 40 years, once had charge of the carrier pigeons used to carry spot news copy. Mr. Rowland, who received $25,000 in Mrs. Nieman's will, said he had seen Mrs. Nieman do only a "little drinking," that her extreme household thrift was for the "benefit of the help." Questioned as to why Mrs. Nieman passed over Wisconsin colleges to make a big gift to Harvard, Mr. Rowland averred that Mrs. Nieman simply "did not like Marquette," and that...