Frank Aydelotte - President of Swarthmore College, Institute for Advanced Study, Publications

College president and foundation officer, born in Sullivan, Indiana, USA. As president (1921–40) of Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, he developed it to become an academically outstanding institution by introducing such innovations as an honours programme. He was later director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1940–7). Long associated with the Rhodes Trust, he planned the Guggenheim Awards and Commonwealth Fellowships.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Publications

Frank Aydelotte, The Oxford Stamp and Other Essays and Articles, Kessinger Publishing, (May 1, 2005) ISBN 1-4179-3674-6 Frank Aydelotte, The American Rhodes Scholarships;: A review of the first forty years, Princeton University Press (1946) ASIN B0006EUH2G Frank Aydelotte, Breaking the Adademic Lock Step, Harper & Brothers (1944) (No ISBN) Frank Aydelotte, Elizabethan Rogues and Vagabonds, Frank Cass; 1 edition (October 6, 1967), ISBN 0-7146-1099-2 Frank Aydelotte, Honors courses at Swarthmore, Columbia (1931) ASIN B0008938RK Frank Aydelotte, Elizabethan Seamen in Mexico and Ports of the Spanish Main, The American Historical Review, Vol. URL: JSTOR Stable Frank Aydelotte, What the Americans Rhodes scholar gets from Oxford, s.n (1920) ASIN B00088LUVC Frank Aydelotte, Honors courses in American colleges and universities, National research council of the National academy of sciences (1924) ASIN B00087DUWK Frank Aydelotte, The educational program of Swarthmore College, The College (1933), ASIN B0008938SE Frank Aydelotte, The Religion of Punch, The Nation, Volume: 100 • Issue #: 2601 • Date: May 06, 1915, The Nation Archive