Charles Henry Keyes (6 September 1858 – 16 January 1925), was an American educator. He was the first president of the Throop Polytechnic Institute (now Caltech) (1891–1896) and he became the first president of

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in 1912. In 1911, Keyes wrote a well-received study on the progress of education in a

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school district. Keyes was already successful at Throop and Columbia University Teachers' College when Lucy Skidmore Scribner asked him to become Skidmore's first president. In 1922, Skidmore was chartered. Keyes helped define the school as a

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college with a successful

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program. He also assisted with the college's acquisition of additional property. Skidmore College have named the Keyes Quadrangle after him.Charles Henry Keyes
Skidmore College official site, accessed March 31, 2009. He is the subject of a biography by Maud Keyes Decker ().

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1858 births 1925 deaths Presidents of the California Institute of Technology Presidents of Skidmore College Teachers College, Columbia University faculty {{US-edu-bio-stub