Word: yales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yesterday, at the same time that ground was broken for Yale's new Institute of Relations building, President James Rowland Angell announced that the general education board and donated an additional $500,000, making available a total of $2,000,000, the remainder having come from the Rockefeller Foundation. President Angell believes that this building will be ready for use before the next academic year, despite a considerable delay caused by the refusal of a cobbler, Giacomo Como, to vacate a small shack until his lease had expired. An agreement was reached by which he will house his shop...
...tenth building to be added since 1917 to Yale's welfare group, it will be followed by four more: for isolation, surgical and women's pavilions, and a semi-private pavilion extension...
...Robert Alexander Falconer, President of the University of Toronto, will come to Harvard as Ingersoll Lecturer for 1929-30, it was announced at University Hall yesterday afternoon. The appointment will bring Toronto's President here next spring. Recipient of many degrees including an LL. D. from Yale, Princeton, Glasgow, and Dublin, a D.D. from Edinburgh, a D.C.L. from Oxford, and a D. Litt, from Manchester, he has also been given the honor of Knight Commander of Saint Michael and Saint George...
...occupied the attention of the speaker, is essentially no other than the force which Harvard authorities have attempted to divert through the organization of living units, and through the enlargement of athletic facilities. The liberalism of Harvard authorities in such matters has not been questioned although in view of Yale's present attack of indigestion, it is the more to be wondered...
...Yale's move, no different than that of Harvard, has been distorted through the agent of a curious sensational press into an object of ridicule for which the unfortunate chance remark of President Angell can not be held solely responsible. This journalistic white lie evokes the unintelligent indignation of prattling flappers where a more fortunate representation might have conveyed a point of view that in its larger aspects can hardly be said to be unintelligent...