Word: yales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Founder") gave $600,000. Marshall Field gave the site, worth $125,000 on the Midway where the World's Fair of 1893 was to be held. The character of the institution was contributed by William Rainey Harper, the 35-year-old Woolsey Professor of Biblical Literature at Yale whom the 'founders asked to be their first president. Youngman Harper said: "I am not interested in starting a college. But I am interested in starting a great university...
...Harper took office, a boy was born to William James Hutchins and his wife, in Brooklyn. William James Hutchins is now president of Little Berea College (Berea, Ky.). The son, who was named Robert Maynard Hutchins, now 30, is the young man who, called like William Rainey Harper from Yale, was inducted as President Harper's fourth successor at Chicago...
...Yale's President James Rowland Angell believes he has the sanest group of students in the world. That is because Yale was the first university to hire a staff psychiatrist. When a Yale man shows abnormality President Angell sends him to that psychiatrist, at present Dr. Clements Collard Fry. If Dr. Fry cannot straighten the student out, the boy is expelled. Only this month Yale dismissed two men, one a mental case, the other a sensual one. So President Angell boasted at the 20th anniversary dinner of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel...
...moleskins and a fur-collared coat, Yale's Albie Booth, being saved for Harvard, sat on the bench where everyone could see him. On the field Donald McLennan, second substitute for Booth, after a scoreless first half, cut through tackle and around end to jam through one touchdown and lead the way for another. Eddie Wittmer and ten other hard-working Princetonians found they were up against a better team. Yale 13, Princeton...
Harvard wanted to save its regulars for Yale but had to put them in to beat a tough, unmannerly little team from Worcester, Mass. Harvard 12, Holy Cross...