Word: yales
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...HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 18--The freshman soccer team was unable to piece together any sort of coherent offensive pattern yesterday and as a result it lost to Yale...
Aside from these qualifications for the post, Seymour practically inherited the presidency. An ancestor, Joseph Colt, received an honorary degree at the first Yale commencement in 1702. His great-great-grandfather, Thomas Clap, was president of Yale College from 1740 to 1766. His great-uncle, Jeremiah Day, filled the same office between 1817 and 1846. His grandfather, Nathan P. Seymour, was a graduate of the college, and his father, Thomas Day Seymour, was Hillhouse Professor of Greek Language and Literature...
Charles Seymour was born in New Haven on January 1, 1885, which brings him to Yale's retirement age of 65 next year. After graduating from Hillhouse High School (which also gave Yale its football captain, Levi Jackson) in 1901, he received a B.A. from Kings College, Cambridge University, England, in 1904. He then came to Yale for four years, getting his B.A. there...
Assuming the presidency of Yale in time for the end of the depression and the outbreak of the war, he saw the enrollment rise from a pre-war 5,300 to 9,000, and drop back to 8,400 this fall...
This increased freedom to study in "unrelated fields" came into effect two years ago after ten years of study initiated when Seymour took office. In addition, the Yale undergraduate can take an almost unlimited number of courses in the graduate schools and may even major in a field in which a graduate school offers the only courses available...