Lewis Perry | |
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7th Principal of Phillips Exeter Academy | |
In office 1914–1946 | |
Preceded by | Harlan Page Amen |
Succeeded by | William Gurdon Saltonstall |
Personal details | |
Born | January 3, 1877 Williamstown, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Died | January 27, 1970 Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Alma mater | Williams College Princeton University |
Lewis Perry (January 3, 1877 – January 27, 1970) was an American educator and the eighth principal of Phillips Exeter Academy.
Lewis Perry was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts on January 3, 1877, to Arthur Latham Perry, a prominent economist, and Mary Brown Perry.[1] He attended Lawrenceville School as well as Phillips Academy for one year,[2] then Williams College, where he graduated in 1898. In Williams, he was the national president of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, of which his father helped found the Williams branch.[3] He was also the first student to be awarded the Rogerson Cup award, the "highest award for alumni service" at Williams.[4] He then attended Princeton University, where he earned an M.A. and a L.H.D degree. From 1901 to 1914, he taught English at Williams. In 1914, he became principal of Exeter. It was under Perry in 1919 that the Exeter Summer program was created.[5] It was also under him that philanthropist Edward Harkness donated to the school $5.8 million to create the Harkness table teaching method in 1930.[6] He retired in 1946.
Over his lifetime, he was awarded honorary L.H.D. degrees by Dartmouth, Yale, Amherst, the University of New Hampshire, and Harvard.[7]
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