1. Charles Seymour was an American academic, historian and the 15th President of Yale University from 1937 to 1951.
12 Facts About Charles Seymour
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Charles Seymour was awarded a Bachelor of Arts at King's College, Cambridge in 1904; and he earned a second BA from Yale in 1908.
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Charles Seymour went on to earn a PhD from Yale in 1911.
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Charles Seymour's teaching experience began at Yale in 1911 when he was made an instructor in history.
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Charles Seymour 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.
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Charles Seymour taught history at Yale from 1911 though 1937, when he became president of the university.
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Charles Seymour served as the chief of the Austro-Hungarian Division of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace in 1919.
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Charles Seymour was the US delegate on the Romanian, Yugoslavian, and Czechoslovakian Territorial Commissions in 1919.
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Charles Seymour served for ten years as the university's provost.
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Charles Seymour was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1938 and the American Philosophical Society in 1939.
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At age 52, Charles Seymour succeeded James Rowland Angell as the university's 15th president in October 1937.
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Charles Seymour died in Chatham, Massachusetts in 1963 after a long illness.