Charles Herbert Levermore
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Doctor Charles Herbert Levermore received an A.B. from Yale, class of 1879, and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins, 1885. At the latter institution he became friends with a young Woodrow Wilson, both being fellow members of the Glee Club. Later he became a Professor of History at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. Levermore was appointed head of Adelphi Academy in 1893 and subsequently established the liberal arts Adelphi College in Brooklyn, NY in 1896.
In February 1924 Dr. Levermore received The American Peace Award, created the year before by Edward Bok, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and former editor of The Ladies Home Journal. This award provided $100,000 for the best plan describing how the United States could co-operate with other nations to achieve and preserve world peace.
Dr. Levermore was Secretary of the World Court League, of the League of Nations Union, and the New York Peace Society.
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- February 11, 1924 Issue of Time Magazine: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,717640,00.html
- Website of the Historic Bok Sanctuary: http://www.boksanctuary.org/history/edward.html
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