Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Yale University, records, ca. 1916-1986 (inclusive).

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Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Yale University, records, ca. 1916-1986 (inclusive).

The records consist of subject files, reports, memoranda and meeting minutes documenting the departments, fellows, faculty, and general administration of the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The records include the files of deans Wilbur L. Cross (1916-1930), Edgar S. Furniss (1930-1950), Hartley Simpson (1956-1961), John Perry Miller (1961-1969), Donald Wayne Taylor (1969-1975), Jaroslav Jan Pelikan (1973-1974, acting dean and 1975-1978), and Keith Stewart Thomson (1979-1986).

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SNAC Resource ID: 8023712

Yale University Library

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Cross, Wilbur L. (Wilbur Lucius), 1862-1948

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Epithet: of the `Yale Review' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x000284 Cross was Governor of Connecticut. From the description of Proclamation of Thanksgiving day for the state of Connecticut : DS, 1936. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 26525875 Wilbur Lucius Cross was born in Gurleyville, Connecticut, on April 10, 1862. He received his B.A. from Yale in 1885...

Yale University. Graduate School

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The Yale Graduate School is one of the twelve schools comprising Yale University, and is the only one which awards the Ph.D. The Graduate School (called the Department of Philosophy and the Arts until 1892) was established in 1847 by an act of the Yale Corporation. In 1861, the Graduate School awarded the first Ph.D. degrees. For nine years following, Yale remained the only American university to award the Ph.D. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was formally established in 1892 with the a...

Taylor, Donald Wayne, 1919-

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Simpson, Hartley

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Hartley Simpson was born in Tilton, New Hampshire in 1900. He received his B.A. degree from Bowdoin College in 1922 and was a student at Cornell University from 1923-1926. Simpson was an assistant professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh from 1926-1929. He spent the remainder of his career at Yale University and held the positions of research assistant in history (1930-1942), research associate (1942-1946), and associate professor (1947-1967). Simpson was also assistant dean of the G...

Pelikán, Jaroslav, 1923-2006

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Jaroslav Pelikan (1923-2006) served as the Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University and the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Ancient Rhetoric in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He was also appointed a senior distinguished visiting scholar at the Library of Congress. From the description of Dr. Jaroslav Pelikan, McDonald Lectures on Christ and Culture, 2001. (Emory University). WorldCat record id: 180105473 ...

Furniss, Edgar S. (Edgar Stephenson), 1918-1966

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Yale University.

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Miller, John Perry, 1911-1997

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John Perry Miller, economist and academic administrator, was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, on March 26, 1911. The son of Fred and Hilda Wagner Miller, he was educated at Harvard University, receiving his B.A. in 1932, M.A. in 1934, and Ph.D. in 1937. He joined the Yale faculty as visiting lecturer in Economics in 1939, after teaching briefly at Harvard and Princeton. Miller was appointed professor of economics in 1950, and later served as director of Social Sciences from 1959 to 1961. He was name...

Thomson, Keith Stewart.

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