Howard Landis Bevis

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Howard Landis Bevis (November 19, 1885 - April 24, 1968, born in Bevis, Ohio) was the 7th President of the Ohio State University. Bevis received a bachelors degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1980 and a law degree from Harvard University in 1910. He went on to practice law in Cincinnati, Ohio and served on the faculty of the University of Cincinnat law school. The governor appointed Bevis to the Ohio Supreme Court in 1933 to fill a vacancy. Bevis did not run for re-election and accepted a position as Ziegler Professor in Law and Government on the faculty of Harvard in business and public administration. Bevis was Ohio state finance director before becoming President of Ohio State University in 1940.

During his tenure as President of Ohio State University, Bevis, having served as a civilian in ordnance and the legal section of the Air Service, refused to cap the number of veterans admitted under the GI Bill, as other colleges had done. Despite the wishes of many on the faculty, enrollment grew from 12,000 in 1946 to 26,000 a year later.^[1]