Paul Dwight Moody | |
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Born | April 11, 1879 |
Died | August 18, 1947 | (aged 68)
Father | Dwight L. Moody |
Paul Dwight Moody (April 11, 1879[1] – August 18, 1947[2]), son of Dwight L. Moody, served at South Congregational Church in St. Johnsbury, Vermont from 1912 to 1917 and as the 10th president of Middlebury College from 1921 until 1943.
During his tenure, two of Middlebury's most important institutions, the Bread Loaf School of English and the Middlebury College Language Schools saw growth in both quality and reputation. One of Moody's chief goals was the creation of a wholly separate women's college at Middlebury, as opposed to the semi-integrated system that had prevailed since women were first accepted in 1883. However, the Great Depression and World War II ultimately stymied his efforts at segregation by gender.
In addition to his position as President of Middlebury College, Moody was simultaneously Chairman of the committee that supervised the 1930 Survey that resulted in the Fourth Annual Report of the Eugenics Survey of Vermont, published under the auspices of the University of Vermont.[3] Middlebury College at the time had "extensive involvement in the eugenics movement," and had been teaching eugenics since at least 1914.[4] Moody was also Chairman[a] of the Committee for the Human Factor, which was "essentially a continuation of the Eugenics Survey."[b]
Eugenics Survey of Vermont has been cooperating as fully as possible under the general supervision of the Committee on the Human Factor of which President Paul Moody of Middlebury College is Chairman
its own extensive involvement in the eugenics movement." [...] In a 1914 list published by the Journal of Heredity, Middlebury was among 44 colleges offering courses on eugenics through subjects such as pedagogy, biology, and sociology
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