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...hope you enjoy yourself at West Point and Annapolis but for Heaven's sake don't foll for a uniform. Harvard, after all, is the best place for Wellesley girls. Sheff sends his love, as usual...
Born 60 years ago in Annapolis, son of the late famed Rear Admiral Colby M. Chester, U.S.N., the N.A.M. chairman is a Yaleman with both Sheffield and academic degrees, having graduated from "Sheff" in the Class of 1897 and returning for an A.B. the following year. After law school he joined his father-by special dispensation-for a cruise on the old U.S.S. Kentucky from Manhattan to Hong Kong, dining on the way with the Sultan of Turkey. Back in Manhattan in 1901, Mr. Chester went from law to business and back again to law, and then...
...departments all instruction given in the hitherto strictly autonomous College, Sheffield Scientific School and graduate schools. It set up a Provost to conduct the faculty's business with the Administration, established a single board of admissions and a common freshman year, with a separate freshman faculty, for "Sheff" and "Ac." Simple and sensible though these reforms seemed to outsiders, they cut deep into Yale's vital fabric of traditions, left a mass of supersensitive and unsutured ganglions. At that point, Yale's Grand Old Man, Arthur Twining Hadley, resigned the Presidency, thus leaving Yale not only suffering...
...entered Yale's Sheffield Scientific School in 1906, studied electrical engineering, got mediocre grades. Those who knew the tall, handsome lad with the blue eyes and dark hair thought him a great fellow, believed he had a good future. At the end of the year he made a Sheff club, York Hall, and a fraternity, Chi Phi. But because he was shy and sickly, he took part in no sports, remained unknown to most of his classmates. In 1908 Lewis Baker Warren was too ill to return to Yale. In 1912 he died...
...conspicuous undergraduate except as a brilliant student. Even Professor Irving Fisher liked his original notions on business and economics. But Yaleman Garland's notions were far more original than Professor Fisher ever suspected. While still an undergraduate, Yaleman Garland heard about a signal device invented by a "Sheff" engineering professor named Henry A. Haugh. Now widely used, the device automatically changed the traffic lights at highway intersections when cars approached. Two years after graduation Garland organized Automatic Signal Corp., his old friend Professor Fisher putting up a "considerable sum" and becoming board chairman. For the patent the Garland company...