Joseph Swain | |
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 Joseph Swain | |
| 6th President ofSwarthmore College | |
| In office 1902–1921 | |
| Preceded by | William Birdsall |
| Succeeded by | Frank Aydelotte |
| 9th President ofIndiana University | |
| In office 1893–1902 | |
| Preceded by | John M. Coulter |
| Succeeded by | William Lowe Bryan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1857-06-16)June 16, 1857 Pendleton, Indiana, U.S. |
| Died | May 19, 1927(1927-05-19) (aged 69) |
| Resting place | Friends Cemetery,Pendleton, Indiana, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Indiana University Bloomington B.A., M.A. |
| Profession | educator, administrator |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Indiana University Bloomington |
| Academic advisor | David Starr Jordan |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Mathematics |
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Joseph Swain (June 16, 1857 – May 19, 1927) served as the ninth president ofIndiana University and also as the sixth president ofSwarthmore College.[1][2]
Joseph Swain was Indiana University's first Indiana-born president. He was born inPendleton, Indiana, to Woolston and Mary A. Swain. Swain attended IU as an undergraduate and graduate student. He matriculated in 1879 and graduated with a B.L. degree in 1883. From 1883 to 1885, he was an instructor of mathematics and biology at Indiana University while he completed his graduate education and graduated with a M.S. degree in 1885. Starting in 1885, Swain was an associate professor of mathematics until 1886, where he then was professor for five years until 1891. He left his professorship at IU in 1891 to follow departing IU presidentDavid Starr Jordan toStanford University, where he taught as a professor of mathematics. In 1893, Swain received an honoraryLL.D. degree from Wabash College. Swain returned to IU in 1893 to serve as IU's ninth president, succeedingJohn Coulter. He met Frances M. Morgan, of Knightstown, Indiana, while teaching at IU and they went on to marry on September 22, 1885.[3] Swain accepted the invitation to serve as President forSwarthmore College in 1902 until 1921. He retired from Swarthmore in 1921 as President Emeritus and died six years later from heart disease inClifton Heights, Pennsylvania, on May 19, 1927.[4] He is buried in his hometown of Pendleton in Friends Cemetery.[5]
Swain served as IU's president from 1893 to 1902. During that time, he established Kirkwood Hall in 1894; a gymnasium for men in 1896, which later was namedAssembly Hall;Kirkwood Observatory in 1900; and he began construction for Science Hall in 1901. During his presidency, student enrollment increased from 524 to 1,285.[3]
Swain was the ex-president of the Indiana State Teachers Association, member of the Section on Higher Education of the National Council on Education, member of the World Peace Foundation and served as president of the N.E.A. from 1913 to 1914.[3]
In 1940, Indiana University opened a new physical science building which they called Swain Hall (now known as Swain Hall West).[6] In 1960, The building was expanded by the incorporation of the former Biology Hall, which became Swain Hall East. The entire complex is known as Swain Hall.[7]
In 2016, Indiana University renamed the Student Building to the Frances Morgan Swain Student Building to honor his wife Frances for her work in trying to increase women enrollments and make it easier for women to acquire a college education during the 1890s.[8]
Dr. Joseph Swain, President emeritus of Swathmore College, died today in the home of Dr. W.W. Hawks, Clifton Heights, where he had been a patient.
Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Friends Church in Pendleton. Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president of Indiana university, and Wilson Doane of Indianapolis' will have charge of the services. Burial will be in the Friends cemetery here.
In memory of Dr. Joseph Swain, Indiana University's president from 1893 to 1902, the new physical science building now under construction will be named Swain hall, it was announced here today by W. G. Biddle, secretary of the board and mathematics departments. It will be completed late in the fall.
When the addition is completed in the fall of 1960, the entire structure will be known as Swain Hall in memory of the University's ninth president, Joseph Swain... The entire structure, consisting of Biology Hal1, built in 1910, Swain Hall, opened in 1940, and the addition is to be known as Swain Hall in memory of the University's ninth president, Joseph Swain... occupied by mathematics; present Swain Hall and the connecting addition by physics and astronomy. All three sciences have been in Swain Hall which has become overcrowded by the increases in their enrollments.
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