The 1940s: Education: Deaths

THE 1940s: EDUCATION: DEATHS

James Rowland Angell, 79, psychology professor and president of Yale University (1921-1937), 4 March 1949.

Leonard Porter Ayres, 67, author of monographs on education, 29 October 1946.

William Chandler Bagley, 72, education periodicals editor and opponent of progressive education, 1 July 1946.

Charles A. Beard, 74, historian and director of the Training School for Public Service in New York (1917-1922), 1 September 1948.

Isaiah Bowman, 71, former president of Johns Hopkins University, 6 January 1950.

Percy Holmes Boynton, 70, University of Chicago English professor whose textbooks were widely used, 8 July 1946.

William Brandenburg, 71, president of the American Association of Teachers Colleges, 29 October 1940.

Nicholas Murray Butler, 83, president of Columbia College, Chicago (1902-1945), 7 December 1947.

Morris R. Cohen, 67, widely acclaimed author and professor of philosophy at City College of New York, 28 January 1947.

James W. Crabtree, 81, secretary of the National Education Association (1917-1935), 9 June 1945.

Wilber Lucius Cross, 86, Yale University English professor and governor of Connecticut from 1930 to 1938, 5 October 1948.

Walter E. Dandy, 60, associate professor at Johns Hopkins University and a renowned brain surgeon, 14 April 1946.

Robert E . Doherty, 65, president of Carnegie Institute of Technology (1909-1931) and known for his extensions of theory in alternating current, 19 October 1950.

Harriet Wiseman Elliott, 63, professor at the University of North Carolina and the only female member of the National Defense Commission, 6 August 1947.

William Preston Few, 72, president and cofounder of Duke University, 16 October 1940.

Thomas Sovereign Gates, 75, financier and president of the University of Pennsylvania (1930-1944), 8 April 1948.

Ernest R. Groves, 69, sociologist and founder of the University of North Carolina conference on the conservation of marriage and the family in 1934, 28 August 1946.

George McLean Harper, 83, Princeton University professor of Romance languages, 14 July 1947.

Samuel Northrup Harper, 61, noted Russian scholar, 18 January 1943.

Emily Hickman, 66, history teacher and chair of the 1944 Committee on the Cause and Cure of War, 12 June 1947.

Rufus Jones, 82, professor of philosophy at Haverford College (1904-1934) and founder in 1917 of the American Friends Service Committee, 16 June 1945.

Raymond Asa Kent, 59, president of the University of Louisville and education consultant to the federal government, 26 February 1943.

George Lyman Kittridge, 81, English professor at Harvard University (1894-1936), 23 July 1941.

Joshua L. Liebman, 41, teacher of Jewish philosophy at Boston University and author of the best-seller Piece of Mind, 9 June 1949.

Abbot Lawrence Lowell, 86, president of Harvard University (1909-1933) and education author, 6 January 1943.

Harley F. MacNair, 55, noted China scholar and professor at the University of Chicago, 22 June 1947.

John Benjamin Magee, 55, educator and theologian, president of Cornell College, 6 April 1943.

James Lukens McConaughty, 60, president of Wesleyan University (1925-1943) and governor of Connecticut (1946-1948), 7 March 1948.

Roland Morris, 71, professor of law at the University of

Pennsylvania and former ambassador to Japan, 23 November 1946.

Jesse Homer Newlon, 59, former Denver superintendent and president of the National Education Association, 1 September 1941.

George C. Odell, 82, professor emeritus at Columbia University and author of many works on American theater, 17 October 1949.

Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead, 65, renowned professor of oriental history at the University of Chicago, 11 April 1945.

Frederick Bayley Pratt, 80, president of the Pratt Institute from 1923 to 1935, 3 May 1945.

Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, 70, president of Mills College who served as the first female moderator of the Unitarian churches of the United States, 28 January 1948.

L. S. Rowe, 75, professor of political science and director of the Pan American Union from 1920 to 1946, 5 December 1946.

Wiley Blount Rutledge, Jr., 55, professor and dean of the College of Law, State University of Iowa, and former Supreme Court justice, 10 September 1949.

Olga Samaroff, 65, music teacher at The Juilliard School and cofounder of the Musicians' Emergency Fund, 17 May 1948.

Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr., 49, former rector of the University of Virginia, 31 October 1949.

Donald Bertrand Tresidder, 53, physician and former president of Stanford University, 28 January 1948.

William Thomas Walsh, 57, biographer and educator, head of Roxbury School (1933-1947), 22 February 1949.

Mary E. Wooley, 84, first woman to receive a degree from Brown University (1884) and president of Mount Holyoke College for thirty-seven years, 5 September 1947.

Hugh Young, 74, professor of urology at Johns Hopkins University, 23 August 1945.