The 1930s: Education: Deaths

THE 1930s: EDUCATION: DEATHS

Felix Adler, 81, educator and social reformer, founder of the Ethical Culture Society, professor of ethics at Columbia University, 24 April 1933.

John Howard Appleton, 86, professor of chemistry at Brown University, author of many popular works on chemistry, 18 February 1930.

Irving Babbitt, 67, influential critic and Harvard University professor of modern languages, founder of the New Humanist movement in American letters, whose best-known work was Rousseau and Romanticism (1919), 15 July 1933.

William Henry Black, 75, theologian and educator, president of Missouri Valley College (1890-1925), 23 June 1930.

Frank David Boynton, 61, superintendent of the Ithaca, New York, public schools and president of the New York State teachers' association, 17 June 1930.

Elmer E. Brown, 73, educator, commissioner of education under Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, chancellor of New York University (1911-1933), 3 November 1934.

James Joseph Carlin, 58, Jesuit theologian and educator, president of Holy Cross College (1918-1925), 1 October 1930.

John Bates Clark, 91, political economist at Columbia University, president of the American Economic Association (1893-1895), 21 March 1938.

William Stearns Davis, 53, author and historian, professor of history at the University of Minnesota, 15 February 1930,

Alfred Lewis Pinneo Dennis, 56, author and historian, chairman of the history department at Clark University, 14 November 1930.

Melvil Dewey, 80, inventor of the Dewey decimal classification system for libraries, 26 December 1931.

Robert Fechner, 63, labor leader, director of the Civilian Conservation Corps, which provided many educational programs, 31 December 1939.

Frank Johnson Goodnow, 80, educator and legal scholar, president of Johns Hopkins University (1914-1929), 15 November 1939.

Edwin Greenlaw, 57, noted philologist, professor of English literature at Johns Hopkins University, 10 September 1931.

John Grier Hibben, 72, logician and president of Princeton University (1912-1932), 16 May 1933.

Edward Washburn Hopkins, 74, philologist, former president of the American Oriental Society, 16 July 1932.

William Edwards Huntington, 86, theologian and former president of Boston University, 6 December 1930.

Harry Burns Hutchins, 92, lawyer and historian, president of the University of Michigan (1910-1920), 25 January 1930.

Allen Johnson, 60, Yale University history professor, 18 January 1931.

David Starr Jordan, 80, educator and naturalist, first president and chancellor of Stanford University (1890-1916), peace activist and president of the World's Peace Congress in 1915, 19 September 1931.

Charles Knapp, 67, philologist and classical scholar at Barnard College, 17 September 1936.

John Holladay Latane, 62, diplomatic historian, dean at Johns Hopkins University, 1919-1924, 1 January 1932.

James Laurence Laughlin, 83, political economist at the University of Chicago, helped establish the federal reserve system, 28 November 1933.

Emil Lederer, 57, German economist and educator, forced to leave Germany by the Nazis, found many fellow exiles positions at the New School for Social Research in New York City, 29 May 1939.

Anne Mansfield Sullivan Macy, 70, teacher at the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Massachusetts and lifelong companion of Helen Keller, 20 October 1936.

Charles Carroll Marden, 64, professor of the Spanish language at Princeton University, 11 May 1932.

George Herbert Mead, 58, educator and pragmatic philosopher, chairman of the philosophy department at the University of Chicago, 25 April 1931.

Paul Elmer More, 72, essayist and literary scholar, professor at Princeton University, founder with Irving Babbitt of the New Humanist movement, 9 March 1937.

George Daniel Olds, 77, mathematician, president of Amherst College (1924-1927), 11 May 1931.

Frederick L. Ransome, 66, geologist and educator, member of the faculty at the University of Arizona and the California Institute of Technology, 6 October 1935.

James Harvey Robinson, 73, historian, professor of history at Columbia University, founder of the New School for Social Research, 16 February 1936.

Ole Edvart Rolvaag, 55, head of the Department of Norwegian Language and Literature at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, author of the novel Giants in the Earth (1927), 5 November 1931.

Julius Sachs, 94, New York educator, professor at the Teachers College at Columbia University, 2 February 1934.

Nora Smith, 74, kindergarten educator and reformer, author of children's books, 1 February 1934.

William Edward Story, 69, educator and chairman of the mathematics department at Clark University (1889-1921), 10 April 1930.

James A. Tufts, 73, educator, professor of English at Phillips Exeter Academy (1878-1928), editor of textbooks, 21 November 1938.

Frederick Jackson Turner, 70, historian, influential founder of the school of historical interpretation that located the motive behind American history in the effects of the frontier, 14 March 1932.

William A. Wirt, 64, educational conservative, superintendent of the Gary, Indiana, schools, 11 March 1938.

George Edward Woodberry, 74, author, critic, and educator, influential professor of literature at Columbia University, author of studies of nineteenth-century American literary figures, 2 January 1930.

John Wesley Young, 52, Dartmouth College mathematician, 17 February 1932.