William DeWitt Hyde
Author
1858 – 1917
Who was William DeWitt Hyde?
William DeWitt Hyde was an American college president, born at Winchendon, Mass. He graduated from Harvard University in 1879 and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1882. Ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1883, he was a pastor at Newark, N. J., in 1883-85, and thereafter was president of Bowdoin College, also holding the chair of mental and moral philosophy. He is author of:
Practical Ethics
Social Theology
Practical idealism
God's Education of Man
The Art of Optimism
The Cardinal Virtues
Jesus' Way
The New Ethics
The College Man and the College Woman
Abba, Father
Self-Measurement
Sin and its Forgiveness
The Teacher's Philosophy in and out of School
The Five Great Philosophies of Life
The Quest of the Best
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- Born
- Sep 23, 1858
Winchendon - Also known as
- William De Witt Hyde
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Harvard University
- Employment
- Bowdoin College
- Lived in
- Massachusetts
- Died
- Jun 29, 1917
Brunswick
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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