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Up for sale a RARE! "Provost of Yale University" Edgar S Furniss Signed TLS Dated 1932.
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NEW HAVEN, July 18—Dr. Edgar
S. Furniss, who retired as provost of Yale University in 1957 after 20 years in
the office, died last night at the Yale‐New Haven Hospital. He was 82
years old. Dr. Furniss also served from 1930 to 1950 as dean of the Graduate School.
His term as provost was the longest ever served by an administrator. An
economist, Dr. Furniss held the Pelatiah Petit Professor of Political and
Social Science chair for more than a decade. During and after World War II, Dr.
Furniss was instrumental in preparing students for Yale's “Foreign Area
Studies,” which trained college graduates in the customs, language, government
and history of various regions of the world. He was also responsible to a great
extent for the introduction in 1942 of the one‐year master's degree program,
which sought to meet the demands at that time for physicists. Dr. Furniss was
born in Hunter, N. D., and received his bachelor's degree from Coe College in
Grand Rapids, Iowa. He went on to Yale for doctorate in 1917. Meanwhile, he
taught economics at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon, before joining
the Yale faculty in 1915. He was the author of three books on economics and the
co‐author of a fourth. He had been a member of the State Liquor
Commission and the State Advisory Council on Employment Service.
