Word: thwing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reactions to this statement were equivocal. President Emeritus Charles Franklin Thwing of Western Reserve University, who, as president of the Floating University, was to have rejoined it in the Mediterranean after leaving it at Panama, but who did not rejoin it, stated vaguely: "I had a personal and altruistic purpose in starting the university, and everything so far has worked out beautifully." Yet the University Travel Association announced that its next cruise would be for men only, and would be "more effective from an educational standpoint." And within the University Travel Association appeared a rift, a split...
...Virginia, to listen at Williamsburg to the mellow accents of Dr. Henry van Dyke, Princeton poet-patriarch; to hear a sweet-voweled memorial poem by Dr. John Erskine of Columbia (author, The Private Life of Helen of Troy and Galahad) ; to attend the prophetic utterance of Dr. Charles Franklin Thwing, president emeritus of Western Reserve University and president of Phi Beta Kappa, who dedicated before the gathering that scholarly brotherhood's $100,000 memorial auditorium. Dr. Oscar M. Voorhees, secretary of P. B. K.'s united chapters, presented the building to William & Mary College and all soon swarmed...
...Librarian Stevens (Williams College) was arranging her shelves (a complete college reference room). Henry J. Allen, onetime (1919-23) governor of Kansas, was winding up his arrangements to publish a daily newspaper on board, representative and facsimile of 48 U. S. dailies. At his home in Cleveland, Dr. Charles Thwing, president-emeritus of Western Reserve University and national president of Phi Beta Kappa, assembled his effects and, with Mrs. Thwing, went on from Cleveland to his post of intellectual commander. He could accompany the cruise only as far as Los Angeles, via the Panama Canal, but planned to rejoin...
Charles Franklin Thwing, president emeritus, Western Reserve Dr. Humane Literature...
...Omniscient Dr. Thwing "happens to know" that Cecil Rhodes, when he founded the Rhodes scholarships at Oxford 23 years ago, viewed with disfavor scholarships at U.S. universities for British students. It is said that a prime motive actuating his founding of the Rhodes scholarships was a desire to express his gratitude and admiration for the U.S. engineer who was so instrumental in helping him make fortunes in South African gold? Mr John Hays Hammond. The latter, now retired, has developed a lively interest in education; last week he addressed "all June graduates" by radio. His subject: "Success." **THE COLLEGE PRESIDENT?...