High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! James Rowland Angell (May 8, 1869 – March 4, 1949) was an American psychologist and educator. He served as the president of Yale University between 1921 and 1937. His father, James Burrill Angell (1829–1916), was president of the University of Vermont from 1866 to 1871 and then the University of Michigan from 1871 to 1909.