The Yale Daily News last week suggested that the highest honor for graduating students on Commencement Day "will be the novel privilege of seeing the President of Yale University [Dr. James Rowland Angell]. Of course, those who do not receive the sheepskin will have completed their four years without resting eyes on this personage. This picture of conditions is a little overdrawn, but the fact remains that at no time during the college year does the President meet the student body."
Until the last two decades, the college president was as important a...
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