American Decades

Deaths

James Rowland Angell, 79, psychology professor and president of Yale University (1921-1937), 4 March 1949.

Leonard Porter Ayres, 67, author of monographs on education, 29 October 1946.

William Chandler Bagley, 72, education periodicals editor and opponent of progressive education, 1 July 1946.

Charles A. Beard, 74, historian and director of the Training School for Public Service in New York (1917-1922), 1 September 1948.

Isaiah Bowman, 71, former president of Johns Hopkins University, 6 January 1950.

Percy Holmes Boynton, 70, University of Chicago English professor whose textbooks were widely used, 8 July 1946.

William Brandenburg, 71, president of the American Association of Teachers Colleges, 29 October 1940.

Nicholas Murray Butler, 83, president of Columbia College, Chicago (1902-1945), 7 December 1947.

Morris R....

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