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Preceded by
  
Joshua Chamberlain

Name
  
William Witt

Succeeded by
  
Kenneth C.M. Sills


William De Witt Hyde

Alma mater
  
Phillips Exeter Academy Harvard University

Died
  
June 29, 1917, Brunswick, Maine, United States

Education
  
Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard University

Books
  
Practical Ethics, The Five Great Philosop, The College Man and t, Abba Father: Reflectio, Abba Father ‑ Scholar's

William De Witt Hyde (September 23, 1858 – June 29, 1917) was an American college president, born at Winchendon, Mass.

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Biography

He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1874, 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.

Publications

He is author of:

  • Practical Ethics (1892)
  • Social Theology (1895)
  • Practical idealism (1897)
  • God's Education of Man (1899)
  • The Art of Optimism (1900)
  • The Cardinal Virtues (1901)
  • Jesus' Way (1902)
  • The New Ethics (1903)
  • The College Man and the College Woman (1906)
  • From Epicurus to Christ (1906)
  • Abba, Father (1908)
  • Self-Measurement (1908)
  • Sin and its Forgiveness (1909)
  • The Teacher's Philosophy in and out of School (1910)
  • The Five Great Philosophies of Life (1911)
  • The Quest of the Best (1913)

    • References

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