Day, Clive, 1871-1951

Clive Day was born in Hartford, Connecticut on February 11, 1871. He received degrees from Yale University (B.A., 1892; Ph.D., 1899). Day served as an advisor to the American Commission to Negotiate Peace and taught economics, sociology, and political economy at Yale (1899-1936). He wrote several books, served on many university committees, and was a member of the Connecticut Unemployment Commission, 1932-1933. He died in 1951.

Clive Day was born in Hartford, Connecticut on February 11, 1871. He received degrees from Yale University (B.A., 1892; Ph.D., 1899). Day served as an advisor to the American Commission to Negotiate Peace and taught economics, sociology, and political economy at Yale (1899-1936). He wrote several books, served on many university committees, and was a member of the Connecticut Unemployment Commission, 1932-1933. He died in 1951.

Clive Day was born in Hartford on February 11, 1871, and received his B. A. from Yale in 1892; he came from a long line of famous Yale men - indeed the direct line of Day's ancestry had had every generation represented at Yale since the founding of the College. Following a year of graduate studies at the University of Berlin, Day went to California and taught history and economics at Berkeley. Then, after another year of postgraduate work at the universities of Paris and Berlin, he returned to Yale and completed his Ph. D. requirements in 1899. That same year he embarked on his long and distinguished academic career at this university: at the time of his retirement in 1936 Day was Knox Professor of Political Economy and was the author of Policy and Administration of the Dutch in Java (1904); A History of Commerce (1907); The Question of the Balkans (1920); and A History of Commerce in the United States (1925).