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Frank Aydelotte (1880 - 1956) was a U.S. educator. Year 1880 ( MDCCCLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the He is known for redefining Swarthmore College as an institution while he was president between 1921 and 1940 and was also the director of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1939 until 1947. Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1500 students Year 1921 ( MCMXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar of the Gregorian calendar Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Institute for Advanced Study, located in Princeton New Jersey, United States is a center for theoretical research Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Aydelotte was born in a small town in Indiana and attended Indiana University where he was an English major, a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity, earned a varsity letter in football and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1911. Indiana University is the flagship campus of the Indiana University system. ΣΝ (Sigma Nu is an undergraduate College fraternity with chapters in the United States and Canada The Phi Beta Kappa Society is an academic Honor society with the mission of "fostering and recognizing excellence" in the Undergraduate Liberal arts After graduation he became an English professor first at a teaching college in California, Pennsylvania, then at Vincennes University and Louisville Male High School in Louisville, Kentucky. California is a borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania, along the Monongahela River. Vincennes University ( VU) is a Public university in Vincennes Indiana in the United States. Established in 1856 Louisville Male is the oldest public high school west of the Alleghenies He became a Rhodes Scholar and studied at Brasenose College, Oxford University. Rhodes Scholarship Rhodes scholar redirects here Rhodes Scholar redirects here Rhodes scholars Brasenose College, originally Brazen Nose College (in full The King's Hall and College of Brasenose, often referred to by the abbreviation BNC The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the

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President of Swarthmore College

By 1921 Aydelotte was president of Swarthmore College where he successfully blended the educational processes he learned at Oxford with the traditional Hicksite Quaker values the college was founded on. Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1500 students Elias Hicks ( March 19, 1748 - February 27, 1830) was an itinerant Quaker preacher from Long Island, New York He expanded the college to an economically viable size and developed a broad-based liberal arts educational curriculum that stressed academic excellence.

He is known for introducing the Honors program at Swarthmore, a program based on his experiences at Oxford. The system is based on the premise that the only true education is self-education, and the idea was to create a set of seminar courses for selected students that were more challenging than the regular curriculum. These students would not receive grades or examinations, but would receive oral examinations at the end of the senior year given by external examiners. This replaced the lecture method of teaching for the advanced students, and introduced the notion of the students reaching the faculty. This method of teaching has become the signature of a Swarthmore College education.

Aydelotte's tenure at Swarthmore was long and his impact was great.

Institute for Advanced Study

During Aydelotte's time as director of the Institute for Advanced Study (1939-1947) the institute had many notable faculty including: Albert Einstein, Kurt Gödel, John von Neumann and J. W. Alexander. The Institute for Advanced Study, located in Princeton New Jersey, United States is a center for theoretical research The Institute for Advanced Study, located in Princeton New Jersey, United States is a center for theoretical research Albert Einstein ( German: ˈalbɐt ˈaɪ̯nʃtaɪ̯n; English: ˈælbɝt ˈaɪnstaɪn (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955 was a German -born theoretical Kurt Gödel (kʊɐ̯t ˈgøːdl̩ (April 28 1906 – January 14 1978 was an Austrian American Logician, Mathematician and Philosopher James Waddell Alexander II ( September 19, 1888 – September 23, 1971) was an important Topologist of the pre-WWII era and part of He also wrote The American Rhodes Scholarships;: A review of the first forty years that reviews the seven wills of Cecil Rhodes the creation of the Rhodes-Milner Round Table Groups from the first and the Rhodes Scholarships from the last. Cecil John Rhodes, PC DCL (5 July 1853 &ndash 26 March 1902 was an English -born Businessman mining Magnate, and Politician Rhodes Scholarship Rhodes scholar redirects here Rhodes Scholar redirects here Rhodes scholars

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