A MAN who makes a career of education faute de mieux
does not merit its best rewards. It treated Angus better
than he deserved. At twenty-eight he was a Dean at Swarthmore
and an American officer of the Rhodes Trustees. Four years later
he was Master of Pierson College and Director of Admissions at
Yale. At thirty-four he became President of the University of
Rochester and served happily there until his resignation fifteen
years later.

In these posts his associates were congenial and the atmosphere
was stimulating. Since each of the three institutions was an ex-
ponent of quality in education and had funds adequate for its
essential purposes, Angus could not have been more fortunate
in his academic circumstances.

He was aware that his promotions came not because he was a
good scholar or teacher but because he was thought to have sound
training and some executive ability. When a young man in the
collegiate world develops a reputation for administration he is
likely to be lifted to power and emoluments greater than those of

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