Robert Swanton Platt papers 1913-1960 1913-1919
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Platt, Robert S. (Robert Swanton), 1891-1964
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Robert Swanton Platt was born in Columbus, Ohio, on December 4, 1891. He graduated from Yale in 1914, and taught at the Yale Collegiate School in Changsha, China from 1914-1915. Platt obtained a Ph. D. from the University of Chicago in 1920. In 1918, Platt joined the faculty of the University of Chicago, teaching there until his retirement in 1957 as chairman of the department of geography. Platt died in Chicago on March 1, 1964. From the description of Robert Swanton Platt papers, 1...
Yale-China Association
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Plans for a Yale mission in China were first formulated in 1901. In 1902, the Yale Foreign Missionary Society was organized, and Lawrence Thurston travelled to China in order to contact missionary groups and investigate locations for a mission. In 1903, the First Conference of Protestant Missions of Hunan invited a Yale group to settle in Changsha. Brownell Gage, Warren Seabury, and Edward Hume formed the first group. A collegiate school, Yali Middle School, opened in 1906, and in 1914, the Coll...
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