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...Snyder had long taken a personal interest in studying demographics and human population growth, and as dean he founded departments on behavioral sciences, demography and human ecology. He established two new professorships in those fields—two of almost a dozen new HSPH professorships that were endowed under his watch...
...Snyder also built Shattuck House, the school’s first residence hall for international students, who made up about one-third of the student body during the time he was dean...
...years, Snyder had seen HSPH prosper and expand but by the end of his term, he came into conflict with many of his students. Around the time of the 1969 undergraduate sit-in of University Hall, the School of Public Health saw increasingly frequent disagreements between its students and faculty over curricular reform...
...Snyder resigned in June 1971 and continued to be active in the medical field, serving a brief stint as the medical director of Harvard’s Center for Population Studies, which he had helped to found...
...Snyder is survived by his wife, Virginia; two sons, Gordon and Donald; a daughter, Wendy; and six grandchildren...