Yale President Will Retire Next Year

President Charles Seymour of Yale said yesterday that he will retire from his position July 1, 1950. He explained that he was making the announcement over a year in advance so that the University would have plenty of time to choose a successor.

Seymour was inaugurated as Yale's fifteenth president in 1937. Born in New Haven 64 years ago, the son of a Yale professor, he received his bachelor's degree from Cambridge University in England and another from Yale.

He did post-graduate work at the Sorbonne in Paris and received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1911. He is the author of nine books and many articles.