Wallace Walter Atwood (October 1, 1872 – July 24, 1949) was an American

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and

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Biography

Wallace Walter Atwood studied geography at the

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, where he was a member of the

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fraternity. He graduated in 1897 and earned his doctorate in 1903, after which he was Associate Professor of Geology at the University of Chicago until 1913. He was professor of Physiography at Harvard from 1913 to 1920. He was elected president of

Clark University Clark University is a private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts. Founded in 1887 with a large endowment from its namesake Jonas Gilman Clark, a prominent businessman, Clark was one of the first modern research universities in the ...

in 1920 and assumed that position until 1946. As president of Clark University, he ordered in 1922, that the lights be turned off while

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was addressing a Liberal Club on

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on the campus of the University, which won him great renown. On this occasion, he wrote the pamphlet ''Extra-Curricula activities and academic freedom''. He also banned

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magazine from the Clark University campus. Walter Wallace Atwood was also president of the international film foundation, whose purpose was to centralize the production and distribution of pedagogical films. He was elected president of the Worcester Economic Club from 1923 to 1924. Retrieved August 29, 2013. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1915.

Legacy

Mount Atwood The Clark Mountains () are a group of low mountains rising above located in the Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. They are about east of the Allegheny Mountains in Antarctica. They were discovered and photographed on aerial flights in ...

is named after him. He was President of the National Parks Association from 1929 to 1933.

References

Writings

Physical geography of the Evanston-Waukegan region
(Urbana : University of Illinois, 1908)
America across the seas; our colonial empire
(New York : C. S. Hammond & company, 1909)
New geography
(Boston: Ginn and company, 1920)
New geography book II
(Boston: Ginn and company, 1920)
Teaching the new geography
(Boston: Ginn and company, 1921)
Inauguration of Wallace Walter Atwood as President of Clark University, February 1, 1921

Extra-curricula activities and academic freedom
(Worcester, Mass. : Clark university library, 1922)

External links

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* Shelly Tenenbau

Massachusetts Historical Review, 5 (2003). {{DEFAULTSORT:Atwood, Wallace Walter American geologists 1872 births 1949 deaths Clark University faculty Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Presidents of Clark University University of Chicago alumni Presidents of the American Association of Geographers