Biographical Sketch

James Rowland Angell was born on May 8, 1869 in Burlington, Vermont. He attended the University of Michigan (B.A., 1890; M.A., 1891), Harvard (M.A., 1892) and the University of Berlin. From 1893-1919 Angell was a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago and served as acting president from 1918-1919. In 1921 he resigned as president of the Carnegie Corporation to accept the presidency of Yale University, a position he held until 1937. As president of Yale, Angell instituted a major reorganization of the undergraduate curriculum, brought in new faculty, expanded the Graduate School, and increased Yale's stature as a national center of higher education. Major achievements of his administration included the founding of the Yale School of Nursing (1923); the organization of the Institute of Psychology (1924), which was expanded into the Institute of Human Relations (1929); and the adoption of a residential college plan for undergraduates. Angell died in Hamden, Connecticut on March 4, 1949.