Complex sentence: After serving in World War I, Eddy had an academic career as a literary scholar professor of English, at Dartmouth College and the American University in Cairo and later as president of both Hobart College and William Smith College (1936--42).
Split into simpler sentences: After serving in World War I, Eddy had an academic career as a literary scholar and professor of English, at Dartmouth College and the American University in Cairo. He was later president of both Hobart College and William Smith College (1936--42).