Henry N. Snyder

Henry Nelson Snyder served as president of Wofford College from 1902 to 1942, he attended Vanderbilt University, Class of 1887, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity. [ cite journal |last= |first= |coauthors= |year=1949 |month=Jan.–Jun. |title=Review of "An Educational Odyssey" |journal=School and Society |volume=69 |issue= |pages=176 |issn= |pmid= |doi= |bibcode= |oclc= |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=E_8VAAAAIAAJ&q=(%22Henry+Snyder%22+OR+%22Henry+N.+Snyder%22+OR+%22Henry+Nelson+Snyder%22)+%2Bwofford+%2B1942&dq=(%22Henry+Snyder%22+OR+%22Henry+N.+Snyder%22+OR+%22Henry+Nelson+Snyder%22)+%2Bwofford+%2B1942&num=100&as_brr=0&pgis=1 |accessdate=2008-06-15 ]

He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South Joint Commission, in which capacity he argued in favour of racial segregation. [cite book |title=The Methodist Unification: Christianity and the Politics of Race in the Jim Crow Era |last=Davis |first=Morris |year=2008 |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=0814719902 |pages=p. 35 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_EKASKeZRrkC&pg=PA35&dq=(%22Henry+Snyder%22+OR+%22Henry+N.+Snyder%22+OR+%22Henry+Nelson+Snyder%22)+%2Bwofford&num=100&as_brr=3&client=firefox-a&sig=6INy-oIUb66N3DFwsMIH8fLgf0I#PPA35,M1 |accessdate=2008-06-15]

His autobiography, "An Educational Odyssey", was published in 1947. [ cite journal |last=Dodson |first=Dan W. |year=1947 |month=Nov. |title=Review |journal=Journal of Educational Sociology |volume=21 |issue=3 |pages=189-190 |url=http://www.jstor.org/pss/2264137 |accessdate=2008-06-15 ]

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External links

* [http://wofford.edu/quintessential/chronology.aspx#Snyder Wofford Quintessential Chronology]