- In 1920, graduated from Franklin and Marshall College and received a doctorate from Columbia University.¹
- Became chairman of the department in 1935.
- Went onto serve as the president of Hood College in 1948, where he told students:
We have been entirely too content with the mere training of the intellect. The only kind of education that will be at all adequate for the world of tomorrow must be an education which gives equal emphasis to the training of intellect and to the development of character.²