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Officially confirmed for Yalemen last week by their Alumni Weekly was the well-known fact that 67-year-old President James Rowland Angell, having reached the University's retirement age, will leave his post within the scholastic year. Yale's Corporation, the Alumni Weekly revealed, is already on the hunt for his successor, hopes to pick him before June 1937. Last week the man mentioned oftenest and most persistently for the job, Yaleman Robert Maynard Hutchins of the Class of 1921, published a book of timely, topical interest, † Based on the Storrs Lectures that Educator Hutchins delivered...
Connecticut's hilly preen Litchficld County has seemed to two young Yalemen an ideal place to found preparatory schools. In 1893 Horace Dutton Taft (Yale 1883). tall, spare brother of the 27th President, settled himself and 30 pupils in an old resort hotel at Watertown as the Taft School for boys. Thirty-seven years later brown-haired Paul Fessenden Cruikshank (Yale 1920) went ten miles west to found Romford School in Washington, Conn. Big Taft and small Romford have each enjoyed a notable success. This week 330 Taft boys from all over the U. S. returned from their vacations...
Assistant U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York is hustling young William Maloney. He went to Fordham University and his middle name is Power. Last week William Power Maloney obtained a $4,500,000 mail fraud indictment against three young Yalemen, 49 other individuals and 20 corporations-biggest mail fraud indictment in U. S. history. Smartest of the three Yalemen was Wallace G. Garland, Class of 1925 (Sheffield). Member of a solid Pittsburgh family, he was not a conspicuous undergraduate except as a brilliant student. Even Professor Irving Fisher liked his original notions on business and economics...
...Packard. In 1903 it moved to Detroit, leaving the Packards behind. By that time two of its principal owners were young Yalemen who had served together in the Spanish War on the U. S. S. Yosemite- Henry Bourne Joy and Truman Handy Newberry, both born in November 1864. Mr. Joy, whose father formed the "Joy System" of railroads, part of which became the nucleus of the present Chicago, Burlington & Quincy served as Packard's president (1905-16). Mr. Newberry made a pleasant little splash as T.R.'s Secretary of the Navy (1908-09) and a large unpleasant splash...
...Yalemen, sons of a missionary named Dwight, had the idea first. They interested a rich New York merchant named Christopher Rhinelander Robert, who in turn interested an oldtime U. S.' missionary in Turkey named Cyrus Hamlin. Merchant & missionary failed, however, to interest His Imperial Majesty Sultan Abdul Aziz of Turkey. Then one fine day an imposing U. S. man-of-war steamed up the Bosporus with Admiral David Farragut aboard, for a courtesy call on the Sultan. His Imperial Majesty hastily reversed himself, handed the U. S. Legation a gracious iradé (permit) to build. Hence it happened that...