Background
Mr. Lew was born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, in 1891.
Mr. Lew was born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, in 1891.
Mr. Lew received his preliminary education at St. John’s University, Shanghai, where he won the Viceroy’s Medal for Chinese Essay Writing. Dr. Lew then went to America and entered the University of Georgia where he won the Horace RusseiL Prize in Psychology. He later distinguished himself at Columbia University where he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts (1914), Master of Arts (1915,) and Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology and Education (1920), and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
He then studied Theology in the Union Seminary, winning the highest merit scholarship and an appointment to the Dean’s Scholarship at Columbia. Later he received from Yale the degree of Bachelor of Divinity in 1918 with magna cum laude, winning also the Fogg Divinity Scholarship.
Lew Timothy Ting-fang obtained honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Middlebury College, 1927, and Oberlin conferred upon him the Honorary Doctor of Sacred Theology. In 1929 he became a "Medalist of the University" of Columbia University.
Mr. Lew was appointed an assistant in the Department of Religious Education in Union Seminary.
He returned to China in 1920, and was appointed dean of the Graduate School of Education, Peking Government Teachers’ College and then professor of Psychology in the National University of Peking and member of the theological faculty of the Peking University (Yenching Ta Hsu’eh). In 1921 Mr. Lew was elected dean of the School of Theology in the Yenching University, resigning his deanship in Teachers’ College.
His activities (since his return to China were varied, including joint-editor of China in Education; joint-author with Dr. Hu Suh and others of “China Today”, “Some Aspects of Chinese Civilization”, joint-author with Prof. W. A. McCall of Columbia of “How to Measure in Education”, “Method of Constructing Psychological and Educational Tests”.
He used to work as an associate editor of The Journal of New Education, editor of The Life Journal. He was a member of the National Christian Council and the National Christian Educational Association. Lew Timothy Ting-fang was a chairman of its Committee of Standardized Tests, member of the Literature Committee of the National Committee ofi the Y. M. C. A, Board of Directors of the Peking Y. M. C. A, National Association for the Advancement of Education, executive secretary of the Society for the study of International Education, executive council of the China Psychological Association, Commission of National Phonetics, Commission of the Ministry of Education on the Investigation of Elementary School Records and etc.
In addition to being dean of the faculty of Theology and professor in the Peking University, Mr. Lew was also a professor of the National Peking Normal University and lecturer of the National University of Peking.
Lew Timothy Ting-fang served as an editor of Life Journal during 1920-1924. He acted as an editor of Truth Weekly and from 1924 to 1926 as an associate editor of Journal of New Education between 1922 and 1925. Since 1928 he held the post of an editor of Truth and Life Bi-weekly.
How to Measure in Education
(joint-author (Chinese))
Middle School Intelligence Tests
(series I and series II)
China in Education
(joint-editor)
The Renaissance Movement
(verse)
Mountain Storm
(verse)
China in American Text Books
The Psychology of Learning Chinese
Problems of the Chinese Church
China Today
Some Aspects of China's Civilization