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Woodbridge Hall, location of the university president's office. Yale University was founded in 1701 as a school for Congregationalist ministers. One of its ten founding ministers, Abraham Pierson, became its first Rector, the administrative and ecclesiastical head of the college.
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Charles Seymour (January 1, 1885 – August 11, 1963) was an American academic, historian and the 15th President of Yale University from 1937 to 1951. As an academic administrator, he was instrumental in establishing Yale's residential college system. His writing focused on the diplomatic history of World War I.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Yale: A History is a 1999 book written by Brooks Mather Kelley on the history of Yale University.
Thomas Clap or Thomas Clapp (June 26, 1703 – January 7, 1767) was an American academic and educator, a Congregational minister, and college administrator. He was both the fifth rector and the earliest official to be called "president" of Yale College (1740–1766). [1]
He taught English for a year, then changed to history, which he taught at Yale from 1933, becoming an assistant professor in 1938, an associate professor in 1942, and a full professor in 1947. Griswold received a Ph.D. in the new field of history, the arts and letters, writing the first dissertation in American studies in 1933. [ 7 ]
Notable best presidents include George Washington at No.2, Thomas Jefferson at No. 7, and Barack Obama at No. 12.
In 1942, while serving in the armed forces, Brewster married Mary Louise Phillips in Jacksonville, Florida. [11] [12] Phillips was born August 30, 1920, in Providence, Rhode Island, the daughter of Mary and Eugene James Phillips [13] (he was a 1905 graduate of Yale College, and a 1907 graduate of Yale Law School).