Charles Franklin Thwing

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Charles Franklin Thwing (November 9, 1853–August 29, 1937) was an American clergyman and educator, born at New Sharon, Me. He graduated from Harvard (1876), and from Andover Theological Seminary (1879), after which he served as pastor of churches in Cambridge, Mass. and Minneapolis, Minn. The Reverend Thwing became president of Adelbert College and Western Reserve University at Cleveland, Ohio. He was the author of:

  • The Reading of Books (1883)
  • The Family (1886; second edition, 1913), with Carrie F. Butler Thwing
  • Within College Walls (1893)
  • College Administration (1900)
  • History of Higher Education in America (1906)
  • Education in the Far East (1909)
  • A History of Education the United States since the Civil War (1910)
  • Universities of the World (1911)
  • Letters from a Father to his Son Entering College (1912)
  • Letters from a Father to His Daughter Entering College (1913)
  • The American College (1913)
  • The American and the German University: one Hundred Years of History (1928)

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