Robert Nelson Corwin (S&B 1887)
Education Administrator. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Elizabethan Club. He Boule. Psi Upsilon.
Member Association of New England Deans, Modern Language Association of America, New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools (president 1929-30; wrote a history of the organization from 1885 to 1935), and Congregational Church, Baiting Hollow.[4]
Head German department Sheffield Scientific School .[4]
Author: “Entwicklung und Vergleichung der Erziehungslehren von John Locke und Jean-Jacques Rousseau” (1894), German and English exercises for supplementary use with Whitney’s Compendious German Grammar and Whitney’s Brief German Grammar (1898).[4]
Editor: Theodor Storm’s Auf der Unwersitat (1910),Paul J. L. Heyse’s Vetter Gabriel (1911), and Gottfried Keller’s Romeo and Julia auf dem Dorfe (1912).[4]
1933 to 1944 - Associate fellow Pierson College, Yale University.[4]
1929 to 1930 - President, NE Association of College and Secondary Schools.[4]
1928 to 1937 - Treasurer Connecticut University Extension Committee.[4]
1926 to 1933 - Trustee Taft School for Boys*.[4]
1921 to 1922 - Committee on Teaching Appointments.[4]
1919 to 1933 - Chairman Board of Admissions, Yale University.[4]
1917 to 1944 - Secretary Class of 1887 and editor Thirty-five Year Record of the Class of ‘87 (1924) and Fiftieth Year Record of the Class of ‘87 (1938).[4]
1915 to 1919 - Chairman Board of Control Yale University Athletic Association.[4]
1909 to 1933 - Member, 1912 to 1917, Vice-Chairman of the Board, 1917 to 1920, Chairman, Represented Yale on College Entrance Examination Board.[4]
1892 to 1897, Instructor, 1897 to 1899, Assistant Professor, 1899 to 1933, Professor, 1933 to 1944, Professor Emeritus, German, Yale University.[4]
Instructor in Latin and German William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, 1888-90, studied at University of Jena 1888, and Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg 1890-92 and summer 1893 (MA and Dr.Phil. University of Heidelberg 1893).
1888 - Married Margaret Wardell, daughter of Rev. Leonard W. Bacon, D.D.(B.A. 1850), and Susan (Bacon) Bacon, granddaughter of Rev. Leonard Bacon, D D., LL D. (B A. 1820), sister of Susan Almira Bacon, PhD . 1911, Nathaniel T. Bacon, ‘79 S, Rev. Benjamin W. Bacon, ‘81, Theodore D Bacon, ‘83 S, Selden Bacon, ex-‘83, Leonard W. Bacon, ‘88, and half sister of David L. Bacon, ‘16 S.
1887 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]
Died 14 Oct 1944, from Uremia. Age 80.[4]
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