Thwing
Americannoun
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Charles Franklin Thwing, famed President Emeritus of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, reviewed the year in higher education: The selection of teachers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yes, as President Emeritus Charles F. Thwing of Western Reserve University had written in the New York Times, an outstanding phenomenon everywhere during 1925-26 was the increasing power—or at least, increased self-assertiveness— of the undergraduates.
From Time Magazine Archive
Patriarchal Dr. Thwing, in discussing college presidents, has made a reference implying that Dr. Lowell's review of a college year would consist chiefly in totting up additions to the endowment fund.
From Time Magazine Archive
President Thwing has carefully estimated that, of the 15,142 most conspicuous persons of our American history, whose record is sketched in "Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography," 5,326 are college men.
From Colleges in America by John Marshall Barker
Believe me, Hampden," continued Thwing, "without our support Burbank is beaten, and you are triumphantly elected—not otherwise.
From The Plum Tree by E. M. Ashe
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