Word: seymour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yale's undergraduates registered for the summer session (a bigger proportion than at other Ivy-League colleges), a deputy of President Charles Seymour announced to them: "We are following the military concept that students are only loaned to universities in order to prepare them better for duty with the armed forces and industry." Faculty war counselors promptly went into a huddle with each student, signed him to a specific course of war training. Some 75% of the students elected enlistment in the Army, Navy or Marine Reserves. The rest chose to prepare for war jobs in industry...
Undergraduates were pleased with the plan because "most of us now feel that we have something lined up in the war effort." Yale had scored a clean beat on its fellow colleges. From Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox (Alma College '98) came a letter to President Seymour congratulating him on "Yale's assumption of leadership." Only sour note came from the Harvard Crimson. In an editorial headed "Big Men on Campus Martius," the Crimson charged that Yale men were being "high-pressured" into picking their war job prematurely. Said the Crimson: "The panicked speed with which...
...crack at the title this year are: Cincinnati's Bill Talbert (ranked No. 10), who beat Bobby Riggs in straight sets in a major tournament last year; University of Southern California's Ted Olewine (No.11) and Charlie Mattmann (No. 15), national Intercollegiate Doubles Champions; Northwestern's Seymour Greenberg (No. 19), onetime Public Parks champion; University of North Carolina's Victor Seixas, national Interscholastic champion...
Olmsted, Michael Seymour...
...Atlanta pen went the late Huey Long's onetime social tutor and short-time political heir, bald Seymour Weiss, paroled after serving about half of his 30-month sentence for mail fraud...