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Charles Prentice Howland, B.A. 1891.

Born September 15, 1869, in New York City.
Died November 12, 1932, in New Haven, Conn

Father, Henry Elias Howland (B.A. 1854; LL.B. Harvard 1857; honorary M.A. 1893); fellow of Yale Corporation 1892-1910; son of Aaron Prentice and Huldah (Burke) Howland, of Walpole, N. H. Mother, Sarah Louise (Miller) Howland; daughter of Jonathan and Sarah Ross (Blunt) Miller, of New York City. Yale relatives include: John Howland (B A. 1894; M.D. New York University 1897 and Cornell 1899; honorary M.A. 1914) (brother); and John Howland, Jr., '3O, and Elihu S. Howland, '35 (nephews).

Cutler School, New York City. High oration appointment Junior and Senior years; one-year honors in political science, history, and law; president of Freshman Football Association; secretary and treasurer of University Tennis Club; treasurer of University Club; member Delta Kappa Epsilon, Wolf's Head, and Phi Beta Kappa.

LL.B. and M.A. Harvard 1894; M.A. Yale 1894; admitted to New York Bar 1894 and practiced law in New York City until 1925; clerk with firm of Seward, Guthrie, Morawetz & Steele 1894-96; member of firm of Anderson & Howland 1896-1900, of his father's firm, Howland & Murray, and its successors, Howland, Murray & Prentice and Murray, Prentice & Howland 1900-1921, and of firm of Rushmore, Bisbee & Stern (in which Henry Root Stern, '03, is also a member) 1921-25; chairman of Greek Refugee Settlement Commission of League of Nations 1925-26; research associate in government at Yale, with rank of professor, since 1927, civil service examiner in New York 1896-1900; member of Board of Aldermen of New York City 1902-04; director of Mortgage Bond Company of New York 1908-1932, Lawyers' Mortgage Company 1913-1932, Continental Guaranty Corporation, New York Railways Company, 1915-19, Albany & Susquehanna Railroad Company, and Robins Conveying Belt Company 1927-28; in 1917 one of four attorneys for Emergency Fleet Corporation and went to England and France on special mission for the Department of State and American Red Cross in connection with relief service for American prisoners of war and feeding of Serbian prisoners in Austria and Germany; member of Priorities Committee of War Industries Board, representing United States Shipping Board, 1918-19 and general counsel to United States Housing Corporation; director of research for Council on Foreign Relations 1927-1931 and edited and wrote in part the four volumes of Survey of American Foreign Relations published for the Council by Yale University Press in 1931; chairman of research committee of Institute of Pacific Relations 1929-1932; trustee of Johns Hopkins University 1926-1932 and of Institute of International Education (executive committee) 1927-1932, president of board of American trustees of Athens College, Greece, 1927-1932 and trustee of Salonica Farm School; member of administrative board of Lincoln School of Teachers College, Columbia, 1917-1924; of General Education Board (executive committee) since 1919, and of the Rockefeller Foundation (executive committee) since 1928; president of Public Education Association of New York City 1909-1925, a trustee 1909-1931, and member of its advisory committee 1931-32; a director of Foreign Policy Association 1920-1932 and chairman of its executive committee 1923-1930; an incorporator of English-Speaking Union of the United States in 1918 and member of its board of directors 1920-25; member of advisory committee of Geneva School of International Studies 1927-1932; trustee of University Settlement Society of New York 1905-1916 and former trustee of Voters' Legislative Association; Dodge lecturer at Yale on "The United States in International Relations" in 1928, contributor to Foreign Affairs, New Republic, Atlantic Monthly, Christian Century, Asia, and Yale Review; at time of death engaged in writing a book on Manchuria; chairman of international law committee of Association of the Bar of the City of New York, honorary member of advisory board of Model Assembly of the League of Nations 1929-1930; in 1915 one of donors to Yale of the Howland Prize and in 1925, with his brother and sister, presented to the University a valuable collection of daguerreotypes.

Married September 6,1905, in New York City, Virginia Cunningham, daughter of Frank and Alice (Furman) Lazarus. Children: Esther (B.A. Vassar 1926; M A. Columbia 1927; Ph.D. Yale 1932), the wife of Hugh Montgomery (B.A. Haverford 1925; M.D, Harvard 1930), Henry Ehas; David, '33; and Prentice (died in infancy).

Death due to injuries received when struck by an automobile a few hours previously. Cremation took place in Springfield, Mass., and ashes were buried in Walpole, N. H. Survived by wife, daughter, two sons, and a sister, Miss Frances L. Howland, of New York City. At a meeting of the Yale Corporation in December, 1932, it was voted to approve the proposal that the Yale University Press send to each embassy and legation of the United States and to the Departments of Political Science and Government in one hundred leading American and British universities copies of Yale's important publications during the last three years in the fields of Government and International Relations, as a gift in each case in memory of Professor Howland. In his memory, also, Athens College has received the funded endowment of an annual prize from Stephen Deltas, Greek treasurer of the Greco-American Preparatory School near Athens.