Franklyn Bliss Snyder (July 26, 1884 – May 11, 1958) was the 18th

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(1939–1949) and an

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scholar of

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Personal life

Snyder was the son of a Congregational minister, Peter Miles Snyder, from Connecticut and grew up in

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. His sister, Alice D. Snyder, was also an academic. She chaired the English Department at

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Education and career

He received his undergraduate degree from

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and a Ph.D. in English from

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in 1909. Snyder's dissertation was on

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and was published as ''The Life of Robert Burns'' in 1932. Snyder joined the Northwestern faculty in 1909, became dean of the Graduate School in 1934, and was elected president of the University in 1939, succeeding

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. Snyder is remembered as being an ardent conservative and uncompromising administrator.

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