Franklyn Bliss Snyder
President of Northwestern University
About Franklyn Bliss Snyder
Lived 1884 – 1958 (aged 73). Franklyn Bliss Snyder was an American literary scholar and university teacher.
Franklyn Bliss Snyder (July 26, 1884 – May 11, 1958) was the 11th President of Northwestern University (1939–1949) and an American scholar of Scottish literature.
Personal life Snyder was the son of a Congregational minister, Peter Miles Snyder, from Connecticut and grew up in Rockford, Illinois.
Education and career He received his undergraduate degree from Beloit College and a Ph.D. in English from Harvard University in 1909. Snyder's dissertation was on Robert Burns and was published as The Life of Robert Burns in 1932. Snyder joined the Northwestern faculty in 1909, became dean of the Graduate School in 1934, and was elected president of the University in 1939, succeeding Walter Dill Scott. Snyder is remembered as being an ardent conservative and uncompromising administrator.
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President of Northwestern University (1884-1958)
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Franklyn Bliss Snyder was born on 26 July 1884.
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Franklyn Bliss Snyder died on 11 May 1958.
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