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Henry Mitchell MacCracken (September 28, 1840 – December 24, 1918) was an American educator and academic administrator.


Biography

Henry MacCracken was born in
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on September 28, 1840. He graduated from
Miami University Miami University (informally Miami of Ohio or simply Miami) is a public research university in Oxford, Ohio. The university was founded in 1809, making it the second-oldest university in Ohio (behind Ohio University, founded in 1804) and the 10 ...
in Ohio in 1857. After a brief teaching career, he entered the
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ministry in 1863. From 1881 to 1884 he served as the sixth chancellor of the
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, then called the Western University of Pennsylvania. In 1884 he was appointed professor of philosophy and vice chancellor of
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, becoming chancellor in 1891. Before his retirement in 1910, the University Heights campus was acquired, a graduate school and schools of commerce and pedagogy were founded, and the university medical school was strengthened by union with
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medical college. While chancellor he was responsible for the creation of
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on the campus and using the term "Hall of Fame" in English, inspired by Munich's
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("hall of fame" in German). Henry MacCracken died in
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on December 24, 1918. He was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City.
Henry Noble MacCracken Henry Noble MacCracken (November 19, 1880 – May 7, 1970) was an American academic administrator who was the fifth president of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, serving from 1915 to 1946 as the first secular president of the college. Ma ...
, president of
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from 1915 to 1946, and
John Henry MacCracken John Henry MacCracken (September 30, 1875 – February 1, 1948) was an American academic administrator who served as president of Westminster College and Lafayette College. When he was chosen as president of Westminster College in 1899, MacCrack ...
, president of
Lafayette College Lafayette College is a private liberal arts college in Easton, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter and other citizens in Easton, the college first held classes in 1832. The founders voted to name the college after General Laf ...
from 1915 to 1926, were his sons. MacCracken Hall, a residence hall at Miami University bears his name.


Popular culture

On a July 2013 episode of the satirical television program ''
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, ''Henry Mitchel MacCracken, who penned a 1904''
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''article on the moral risks of college men'',' ''was comically portrayed as a still active ''Times'' trends section editor after the newspaper published a similarly themed article in 2013.


References

* See T. F. Jones, New York University, 1832–1932 (1933).


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maccracken, Henry Mitchell 1840 births 1918 deaths Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York) Miami University alumni Chancellors of the University of Pittsburgh Presidents of New York University