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Up for sale "Yale University" Charles Seymour Hand Signed 5.5X3 Card Dated 1959.
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Charles
Seymour (January 1, 1885
– August 11, 1963) was of
Yale University from 1937 to 1951. As an academic
administrator, he was instrumental in college system. His writing focused on the diplomatic
history of World War I. Seymour was born in New Haven, Connecticut,
the son of Thomas Day Seymour, who
taught classics at Yale, and Sarah Hitchcock Seymour. His paternal grandfather,
Nathan Perkins Seymour, was the great-great grandson of Thomas Clap, who was President of Yale in the 1740s. His
paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Day, was the grandniece of Jeremiah Day, who was Yale's president from 1817 through 1846.
An ancestor of his mother, the former Sarah Hitchcock, was awarded an honorary
degree at Yale's first graduation ceremonies in 1702. Seymour
was awarded a Bachelor of Arts at King's College, Cambridge in
1904; and he earned a second B.A. from Yale in 1908. He went on to earn a Ph.D. from
Yale in 1911.[1] In 1908, he was also tapped as a member of
the Skull and Bones Society
and in 1919 he was founding member of The Council on Foreign Relations Seymour's teaching experience
began at Yale in 1911 when he was made an instructor in history. He was made a
full professor in 1918; and when he eventually left teaching, he had risen
amongst the faculty to become Sterling Professor of
History (1922–1927). He taught history at Yale from 1911 though 1937, when he
became president of the university. Seymour
served as the chief of the Austro-Hungarian Division of the American
Commission to Negotiate Peace in 1919. He was also the U.S.
delegate on the Romanian, Yugoslavian, and Czechoslovakian Territorial Commissions in 1919. In
1933, he delivered the Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic
History at Johns Hopkins University on the subject of American
Diplomacy during the First World War. Seymour served for ten years as this period, Yale College was re-organized into a system of ten residential
college, instituted in 1933 with the help of a grant by Yale
graduate Edward S. Harkness, who
admired the college systems at Oxford and Cambridge. Seymour became
the first Master of Berkeley College. At
age 52, Seymour succeeded James Rowland Angell as
the university's 15th president in October 1937. After his retirement in July 1950, he would be
succeeded by Alfred Whitney Griswold. After
his retirement as president, Seymour continued his involvement with the
university as curator of the papers of Edward M. House at the Yale University Library. He
died in Chatham, Massachusetts in
1963 after a long illness. His son, Charles Seymour, Jr., was a professor
of art history at Yale. Quote: "We
seek the truth and will endure the consequences."