- Title:
- Higher education and the state; an address delivered before the Fortnightly Club of Bloomington, Indiana
- Author:
- Swain, Joseph, 1857-1927.
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SWAIN, JOSEPH: 1857-1927.
Joseph Swain, son of Woolston and Mary A. Swain, was born at Pendleton, Ind., on June 16, 1857, and graduated from Indiana University in 1883, receiving the M.S. degree in 1895. He was later awarded the LL.D. degree by Wabash College, Lafayette, the University of Pennsylvania, Indiana University, and Swarthmore College. He married Frances M. Morgan on Sept. 22, 1885.
From 1883 to 1891 he was associated with the mathematics department of Indiana University, and from 1891 to 1893 he was professor of mathematics at Leland Stanford Junior University. He returned to Indiana in 1893 to become president of Indiana University, a position he held until 1902, when he became president of Swarthmore. He served in the latter capacity until 1921.
Dr. Swain died on May 19, 1927.
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- Inaugural Address at Indiana University, 1893.
Bloomington, Ind., 1893.
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Higher Education and the State
byJoseph Swain
