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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...
...after his retirement in 1937 that Yalemen got to know him better, for President Emeritus Angell seldom missed a chance to return to campus. He was an honored guest at all Yale functions, made speeches with a wit that seemed to mellow with age. Last month, though incurably ill with cancer, he made one of his speeches at the 25th anniversary of his nursing school ("I have only one criticism ... of [nurses]. When they use a needle to stick you, they always choose a blunt needle"). That was the last time Yale ever heard him. Last week, at 79, James...
...considered something better left to Y.M.C.A.s and volunteer fire departments. Until 1937, when Yale changed its mind, basketball lettermen had to be content with a two-inch minor-sport "Y" instead of five-inchers given to crewmen, footballers, baseballers and trackmen. Even after basketball became a major sport, Yalemen refused to get worked up about the game -until Tony Lavelli of Somerville, Mass, came along...
...When Williams tried guarding him with one man, he racked up 52. No one had so completely mastered the one-handed hook shot, flipped while taking a stride away from the basket, as Tony Lavelli. His detractors pointed out that he was slow afoot and weak on defense, but Yalemen replied: "All Galli-Curci could do was sing." Tony Lavelli could shoot...
...their own. The cost was always too high. Since 1932, the editors have had their own Gothic quarters, the Briton Hadden Memorial Building,† but the printing has been done on contract, in a shop a mile and a half away. Now, in the "heelers' room," where young Yalemen compete for places on the board, the Daily News (circ. 3,000) has its own offset press and folder, with three new Vari-Typers down the hall. It can print more pictures and is boosting its tabloid size from an average eight pages daily to twelve...