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...Hall. It was their regular February meeting, but all through New Haven had gone the whisper that at last Yale was choosing a successor to 67-year-old President James Rowland Angell who will retire in June. As the Corporation seated themselves, the University's Provost, handsome Charles Seymour, was absent. He rarely misses a Corporation meeting, but at that moment he was in his office in Berkeley College. The meeting was brief. Connecticut's roly-poly Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross scuttled out, taking with him famed Presbyterian Henry Sloane Coffin, to announce to his friend...
Yaleman Charles Seymour is 52. Ruddy, well tailored, fond of rough tweed jackets and pipes, he does not suggest a distinguished historian (The Diplomatic Background of the War, 1870-1914; The Intimate Papers of Colonel House; American Neutrality, 1914-1917). He does suggest Yale. Son of Yale's longtime Greek Professor Thomas Day Seymour, he is descended from two Yale presidents and has been Yale royalty from his youth. That did not keep him from taking a B. A. degree at Cambridge before he entered Yale's Class of 1908. He managed the freshman and varsity crews, belonged...
...possible that the Council group will meet with Charles Seymour, newly elected President of Yale, to whom they carry letters of introduction from University Hall officials...
...Pierian Sodality of 1808 elected the following officers last night: President, Robert W. Snyder '38; Vice-President, Eric T. Clarke '38; Secretary, Seymour Bunshaft '39; Treasurer, Mc Crae H. Cobb '39. Chester W. Williams 1G was appointed assistant conductor. The following new members were elected: Roy J. Beneechi '37, Mc Crae H. Cobb...
...have been raised recently as to whether or not Yale is too conservative an institution in this liberal age. On this account the policies of the new President will be watched eagerly for a chance to cry "Mosback". And here again Yale is fortunate in the choice of Mr. Seymour, for by his eager interest in all the manifold fields of Yale's research work he has shown himself possessed of young interests which should maintain Yale's progressive tradition. Those who do not know Mr. Seymour will see in his election a fitting reward for long years of service...