Background
Connely, Willard was born on July 1, 1888 in Atlantic City. Son of George Washington and Anne Hunt (Willard) Connely.
Connely, Willard was born on July 1, 1888 in Atlantic City. Son of George Washington and Anne Hunt (Willard) Connely.
Student Stevens Institute Technology Students in the British Isles, 1933.
Began as reporter for Atlantic City Review, 1904. With Sunday American, New York City, 1911-1913. Assistant editor Harper’s Weekly, 1913-1914.
Associate editor McClure’s Magazine, 1913-1915.
Associate editor International Film Service, 1915-1916. Instructor English, Harvard, 1920-1925, instructor comparative literature, 1922-1923, assistant in Greek, 1925.
Reader in English to College Entrance Examination Board, 1921-1923. With Sunday Express (London), 1927-1928.
Director America University, Union, London, 1930-1946.
Retired, 1946. Founded weekend lectureships (on Carnegie Endowment) to British universities for American professors on sabbatical leave, 1931. Instituted (on Carnegie Endowment) one-term professorships for American university staff at British newer universities, including Scottish universities Secretary to Carnegie Corporation International Conference on Examinations, Eastbourne, 1931, London, 1933, Folkestone, 1935, Oxford (Corpus Christi College), 1937, Dinard (France), 1938.
Carnegie Foundation grantee for study of scholarships in British schools universities, 1939.
Grantee American Council of Learned Societies for research on Colonial American (1654-1775) in Oxford and Cambridge, 1942. Byron Foundation lecturer Nottingham U. College, 1936. Lecturer, to British Board Education on American Literature, 1941.
To British Armed Forces on American in the War, 1941-1943.
To Workers’ Education Association on American Education, 1942.
Served as chief yeoman, United States Navy, World War I. Medalist, Carnegie Corporation New York, 1936. Fellow Royal Society Literature, London, 1944. Official delegate to Harvard Tercentenary, 1936.
Visited 30 American universities in East, South, and Midwest, speaking informally on British education, 1936.
Member of Executive Committee Horatian Society (London). Conservation to the United States State Department on European Universities, 1944.
Member British Association Committee on Postwar Education, 1942-1944. Member University of Oxford Dramatic Society, Phi Beta Kappa (honorary).
Clubs: Harvard (New York City).