Yale College records of the dean , 1857-1999 (inclusive).

DeVane, William C. (William Clyde), 1898-1965

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Taft, Horace Dwight, 1925-1983.

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Horace Dwight Taft was born in 1925, the son of Senator Robert A. and Martha Bowers Taft, and grandson of President William Howard Taft. He attended the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, which was founded by a grand-uncle, Horace Dutton Taft. He received a B.A. degree (1950) from Yale University and a Master's degree (1953) and a Ph.D. (1955) from the University of Chicago. Taft joined the Yale faculty in 1956 as an instructor in physics, and was appointed a professor in 1964. He was master...

Wright, Henry Smith, 1839-1910

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Biographical information is limited for Henry X. Wright. A Virginian, he was born in 1835. The collection's earliest document places him on the USN Fulton as an assistant engineer at age 24. The outbreak of the Civil War finds him aboard the USS Pocahontas. In April 1861 Wright tendered his resignation from the United States Navy, which was accepted on May 6, 1861. On May 22, 1861 he was accepted into the Confederate States Navy, with orders to report for duty. Wright wa...

Yale College (1887- )

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The Yale College Internship Program began in 1975 under the directorship of A. Tappan Wilder. The program, which ran in conjunction with Yale Summer Term, placed 25 undergraduates a year in government, business, and media internships during fall or spring term. In 1979 the Yale Summer Program ended, raising questions about the future of the internship program. In the same year Wilder left Yale, and Antonia Stolper, a former intern, was appointed to replace him. Stolper left Yale in 1980. Jean Ca...

Lamar, Howard Roberts.

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Howard Roberts Lamar, historian of the trans-Mississippi West, was born in Tuskegee, Alabama in 1923. He received a B.A. from Emory University in 1944, and a Masters (1945) and Ph.d. (1951) in History from Yale University. He was an instructor at the University of Massachusetts and Wesleyan University between 1945 and 1949, and taught at Yale from 1949 to 1994. He held a number of administrative positions at Yale including chair of the Department of History 1962-1963 and 1967-1970, Dean of the C...

Yale College (1887- ). Dean's Office.

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The Yale College dean's office was established during Timothy Dwight's presidency (1886-1899). The office was created in order to assist the president in his administrative duties, and to aid the faculty in social and disciplinary matters. The dean oversees the general course of study, administrative policies, and the operations of such programs as Directed Studies, Expository Writing, and Scholars of the House. The dean is also responsible for policies affecting campus life, student discipline,...

May, Georges, 1920-

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Georges Claude May, specialist in French literature, was appointed to the Yale faculty in 1946, and was named dean of Yale College in 1963. He later served as provost of the university from 1979-1981. From the description of Georges Claude May papers, 1963-1981 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702158138 From the guide to the Georges Claude May papers, 1963-1981, (Manuscripts and Archives) ...

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Altman, Sidney

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Sidney Altman was born on May 8, 1939, in Montreal, Quebec. He received a B.S. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960 and a Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of Colorado in 1967. Following further work in molecular biology at Harvard University and at Cambridge, Altman joined the faculty of Yale University in 1971. Altman's research has concerned nucleic acid chemistry and the genetics of tRNA expression. In 1989 he won the Nobel Prize in chemistry. In addition t...

Jones, Frederick Stanley

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