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...more surprised," cried one down-to-earth Yale professor, "by an undefeated football team." The professor was not alone last week. All over New Haven, from the classrooms to Mory's, students, teachers and Whiffenpoofs were hashing over the announcement that Yale's President Charles Seymour was going to retire...
...Historian Seymour had four years to go before the mandatory Yale retirement age of 68 took effect, but he had decided that the university needed a "fresh leadership of the most vigorous sort." He wanted to give Yale plenty of time to find it. He would not actually leave, he said, until July...
Bonnie Prince. It was twelve years since Charley Seymour, in sonorous Latin, had accepted the keys, records, charter and great seal of the university, in the climax of a long Eli career. His great-great-grandfather Thomas Clap (from 1740 to 1766) and his great-uncle Jeremiah Day (from 1817 to 1846) were Yale presidents before him, and his father had taught the classics there. Seymour himself (Yale '08) joined the faculty in 1911 as an instructor in history...
Harvard teachers who were active at the convention include John T. Dunlop, associate professor of Economics; Alvin H. Hansen, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy; Seymour E. Harris '20, professor of Economics; and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, associate professor of History...
...Seymour was inaugurated as Yale's fifteenth president in 1937. Born in New Haven 64 years ago, the son of a Yale professor, he received his bachelor's degree from Cambridge University in England and another from Yale...