Word: seymour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the suggestion that all college students should receive military training in four-month vacation doses, President Seymour of Yale has given a concrete basis to the discussion of what the role of colleges in national defense should be. Two things stand out in the proposal. First, President Seymour assumes a permanent emergency and proposes a long range program to preserve colleges in that emergency. Second, he recognizes that the colleges' contribution to defense cannot be in the form of training, except in the case of technical courses. He advocates fitting Yale into the national training scheme rather than turning...
...Charles Seymour, president of Yale University, suggested today a modified Swiss system of universal training for American college students...
...finishing school, Rosemary (fee: $1,600 a year) is patronized by well-to-do girls of the hardier sort, most of whom go on to Bryn Mawr or Vassar. Among its 1,900 alumnae are Mrs. Charles Seymour, Mrs. Robert A. Taft, Mrs. S. Parker Gilbert, President Katherine Blunt of Connecticut College...
...October 18 the CRIMSON fired the first shot in the battle when it attacked President Conant (who had urged lifting the arms embargo), Bishop Manning of New York, and President Seymour of Yale, accusing them of "earning an unenviable place in the road gang that is trying to build for the United States a super-highway to Armageddon...
...President Ernest Hopkins of Dartmouth, Nobel Prizewinners Dean George Whipple of Rochester University, Dr. George Minot of Harvard. ("I am very much pleased that this type of citizen is coming out for me. These men represent the very best in our intellectual and social life. . . .") So did President Charles Seymour of Yale ("a Democrat since Woodrow Wilson...