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Charles Seymour (
January 1 1885 -
August 11 1963) was an
American historian and President of
Yale University from
1937 to
1951.
He was born in
New Haven, Connecticut to
Thomas Day Seymour. His grandparents Nathan Perkins Seymour was the great-great grandson of Yale President
Thomas Clap, and Elizabeth Day was the niece of Yale President
Jeremiah Day.
He was awarded a
Bachelor of Arts from the
University of Cambridge in
1904, and a separate B.A. from Yale in
1908, where he became a member of
Skull and Bones. He went on to earn a
Masters of Arts from Cambridge in
1909, and a
Ph.D. from Yale in
1911. He served as the provost of the University, where in
1908 he helped expand and protect the Yale Residential Colleges, and later became master of
Berkeley College. He taught history at Yale from
1911 to
1937, when he became president of the university. While president, he inaugurated several interdepartmental majors such as
American Studies--promoted by another Bonesman
F. O. Matthiessen. Additionally, Seymour served as the chief of the
Austro-Hungarian Division of the
American Commission to Negotiate Peace, and as the U.S. delegate on the
Romanian,
Yugoslavian, and
Czechoslovakian Territorial Commissions in
1919.
Seymour was a close personal friend of
gray eminence 'Colonel'
Edward M. House.
He died in
Chatham, Massachusetts on
August 11 1963. His son,
Charles Seymour, Jr., became a professor of
art history at Yale.
Quote: "We seek the truth and will endure the consequences."
Bibliography
- Charles Seymour, Letters from the Paris Peace Conference. New Haven, 1963.
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