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...giving the University the lead over all other colleges. These men are Charles F.Thwing '76' President Emeritus of Western Reserve University: Robert MacDougall Gr: '93; George E. Howes '86, Dean of Williams Collage and Professor of the Classics; O. L. Raber Gr. '15; J.E.Woodman '96; and Dean Lough. President Thwing now in Europe, completing arrangements there. In addition to the above named doctors. C.P.Patterson Gr. 16 Professor of Government holds an M.A. from the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Men Lead on Staff of Novel Educational Institution | 4/9/1926 | See Source »

...other reviewers show a warm recognition even of the worth of discipline, whenever the hand that guides it is worthy. Indeed, the whole sheaf of forty notices indicate clear coincidence of undergraduate opinion, based upon the experience of four years of study, with the datum of Dr. Charles F. Thwing: "Great scholars in teachers' chairs are good. Great teachers in teachers chairs are better. Great characters who are also great teachers are best, supremely best." --Boston Transcript...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Most of It is Right" | 9/29/1925 | See Source »

...business meeting, other matters transacted were: re-election of officers: ? Dr. Charles F. Thwing (Western Reserve, emeritus), President; Dr. Francis W. Shepardson (Chicago), Vice President?and granting of charters to new chapters at Agnes Scott College, (Decatur, Ga.), University of South Carolina, College of Wooster (Wooster, Ohio), University of South Dakota, University of the South (Sewanee, Tenn.), University of Kentucky, Occidental College (Los Angeles, Calif), University of Idaho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KEYMEN | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

Skipper of the intellectual activities of the S. S. University was to be Dr. Charles F. Thwing, learned and widely traveled President Emeritus of Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio). The relations of a sea-univer-sity's President with his students would necessarily be exceptionally intimate. One of many bright prospects seen for the trip was that of Dr. Thwing in the rôle of traveling companion, expounding Theology?he is an ordained minister ?to his followers after a visit to the grave of Confucius or a devil-service in Borneo; or Pedagogy?that is his specialty?after inspecting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sea-Going College | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

...Mary (Williamsburg, Va.), one of the earliest repositories of higher learning in the U. S.,* they laid a cornerstone. The ground had waited 149 years for a memorial to the founders of Phi Beta Kappa, honorary hierarchy of scholarship. From all points came distinguished collegians. Dr. Charles F. Thwing, President Emeritus of Western Reserve University, and President of the United Chapters of P. B. K., was in the chair. Sir John Asser, Governor of Bermuda, became an honorary member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pomp | 6/15/1925 | See Source »

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