President, Western Reserve University
Centurion, 1922–1937
Born 9 November 1852 in New Sharon, Maine
Died 29 August 1937 in Cleveland, Ohio
Buried Lake View Cemetery
, Cleveland, Ohio
Proposed by Arthur C. McGiffert and George Haven Putnam
Elected 3 June 1922 at age sixty-nine
Century Memorial
Charles Franklin Thwing was one of the Club’s out-of-town members who rarely visited New York, yet whose membership in the Century was to him a source of pride which led him never to relinquish it, even when he was in his eighties. Himself a Harvard man, he followed during his Presidency of Western Reserve the Charles W. Eliot tradition. His contribution to American higher education was substantial; it lay first in his omnivorous reading; second, in his ability to digest what he read; third, in the facility with which he presented the result in clear and simple form. At the time of his death, he had no fewer than thirty-five educational volumes to his credit.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1938 Century Association Yearbook
