Tyler Dennett
Tyler Dennett | |
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Born | June 13, 1883 |
Died | December 29, 1949 |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Williams College (BA) Union Theological Sem. (BD) Johns Hopkins University (PhD) |
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Tyler Dennett (June 13, 1883
Early career and education
Born in Wisconsin, but raised in Rhode Island, Dennett graduated high school as valedictorian from the
Career
Among his early scholarly writings were The Democratic Movement in Asia (1918)
He taught American history at Johns Hopkins University (1923–24) and at Columbia University (1927–28), and international relations at Princeton University (1931–34).[citation needed] Most significantly, Dennett served as president of Williams College (1934–37), resigning after a disagreement with the college's board of trustees.[7] The trustees planned to purchase the Greylock Hotel, which later became a dorm, but at the time Dennett felt the hotel had no useful purpose for the college. Dennett was also one of the future college presidents to speak out against Nazi Germany during this period, ending academic exchange programs with Nazi Germany in 1936.[8]
He received the 1934
Death
He died in Geneva, New York in 1949.[10]
Notes
- ^ Wisconsin Biographical Dictionary
- ^ 'Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners,' pg. 16, 1999
- ^ "(1934-1937) Dennett, Tyler". Special Collections. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
- ^ Williams bio of President Dennett
- ^ President Roosevelt's Secret Pact with Japan, Tyler Dennett, The Current History Magazine, October, 1924, [1]
- ^ The Taft-Katsura Agreement—Reality or Myth?, Raymond A. Esthus, Journal of Modern History 31 (1): 46–51. 1959, JSTOR [2]
- ^ archives.williams.edu
- ^ Wills, Matthew (2021-12-10). "Silence in the Face of Intellectual Conflagration". JSTOR Daily. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
- ^ John Hay From Poetry To Politics on Archive.org
- ^ "Dennett, Tyler, 1883-1949 - Social Networks and Archival Context". snaccooperative.org. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
Further reading
- Borg, Dorothy. "Two historians of the Far Eastern policy of the United States: Tyler Dennett and A. Whitney Griswold," in Dorothy Borg and Shumpei Okamoto, eds., Pearl Harbor as History: Japanese-American Relations, 1931-1941 (1975) pp 551–574.