William Fremont Blackman (1855–1932) was the fourth president of

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from 1902 to 1915. He was born on September 26, 1855, in North Pitcher, New York. He attended

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with a Bachelor of Arts in 1877. He went on to earn a Bachelor of Divinity degree from

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in 1880 and his Ph.D. from

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in 1893. He did further studies at the Berlin University (Royal Statistical Bureau, 1893) and the

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in Paris (1894). Before he joined Yale as Professor of Christian Ethics in 1893, he held pastorates at congregational churches in Steubenville, Ohio, Naugatuck, Connecticut, and Ithaca, New York. While at Yale he lectured on social philosophy and ethics, and served as editor of the Yale Review. He was appointed as President of

in 1902. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1910 from the

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. He died in 1932 and was interred in

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