Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Charles Franklin Thwing
President, Western Reserve University
Centurion, 1922–1937
Proposed by
Arthur C. McGiffert and George Haven Putnam
Arthur C. McGiffert and George Haven Putnam
born
November 9, 1852
New Sharon, Maine
New Sharon, Maine
died
August 29, 1937
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland, Ohio
elected
June 3, 1922
Age sixty-nine
Age sixty-nine
buried
Lake View Cemetery,
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland, Ohio
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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
