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William De Witt Hyde was an American college president, born at Winchendon, Mass. He graduated from Harvard University in 1879 and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1882. Ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1883, he was a pastor at Newark, N. J., in 1883-85, and thereafter was president of Bowdoin College, also holding the chair of mental and moral philosophy.
William De Witt Hyde was an American educator and author.
Background
Hyde was born in Winchendon, Massachussets, in 1858, the second and only surviving child of Joel and Eliza (DeWitt) Hyde. His first ancestor in America was Jonathan Hyde, who emigrated from London in 1647 and settled at Newton, Massachussets William's mother died shortly after her son's birth; and his father, a farmer and maker of wooden ware, died seven years later, leaving the son an inheritance sufficient, with frugality, to provide for his education. Puritanism charged the atmosphere in which he grew.
Education
Brought up by relatives in Keene, N. H. , and later in Southbridge, Massachussets, he was graduated from Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H. , in 1875, and entered Harvard, from which he was graduated in 1879. His letters of this period reveal a deeply religious youth, reliant on reason and bent upon service. After a year at Union Theological Seminary, he completed his course at Andover in 1882. Here he came under the growing influence of the socially motivated "new theology, " and of a profoundly religious local physician, Dr. James Howarth.
Career
A postgraduate year was chiefly notable for Hyde's renewed contacts with George Herbert Palmer of Harvard, his spiritual father, whose Hegel seminar he attended; and for his own meditations. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry on September 27, 1883, and became pastor of a church in Paterson, N. J.
Meanwhile he had shown his intellectual vigor by publishing two technical articles on theology, "The Metaphysical Basis of Belief in God", and "An Analysis of Consciousness in Its Relation to Eschatology"; and his Andover teacher, Egbert C. Smyth, an influential trustee of Bowdoin College, was considering him as a possibility for the chair of philosophy and the presidency of the institution. In June 1885, the offer was made and accepted. Hyde was then, at the age of twenty-six, uncommonly mature in most of the powers that were to carry him swiftly to leadership.
He had attained his fundamental concepts in philosophy, ethics, and religion. He had a finished literary style. As a public speaker he had skill, vigor, charm, trenchancy, enforced by good temper – although a leaning toward the rhetorical sometimes led him into overstatement – a pleasing voice, and athletic bearing. For thirty-two years he was a prophet, interpreting to thinking people a rational social theology of Divine immanence, Greek virtues supplemented by Christianity, philosophical idealism, liberalism, and evolutionary progress; the principles and applications of which he set forth in a stream of brilliant books and articles. He could interpret public issues in phrases of pregnant contrast, as in his last address, Patriot's Day 1917, on "The Cause for Which We Fight. "
In the political campaign of 1888 he established a reputation for courageous independence by a speech in Republican Maine for Cleveland and tariff reform. In the same spirit, at the Second International Council of Congregational Churches, held at Boston in 1899, he urged the rejuvenation of theological education with a trenchancy that evoked sharp disagreement but made the subject the one most discussed at the gathering. The following year, he attacked McKinley on his record, yet supported him against Bryan. Working constructively in other fields, he promoted church unity by taking the lead in 1890 in founding the Maine Interdenominational Commission, the purpose of which was to bring about combinations of weak rural churches and prevent the competitive establishment of new ones. Of this, the first inter-church state federation, he was president as long as he lived. Through its success, by his advocacy of church unity in a series of articles in the Forum (June 1892, March, April 1893, December 1895); and by active cooperation, he contributed importantly to the evolution of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, a leading exponent of the federal principle of church union as against that of organic unity.
As a preacher and lecturer at the leading universities and colleges of the country, at religious and educational conferences, and in city churches and clubs, he was in great demand. In 1904 he was chosen to give the address on "The College" at the International Congress of Arts and Sciences held in connection with the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis (published in the Educational Review, December 1904). From 1898 he was trustee of Phillips Exeter Academy. In 1911 he declined to consider an ad interim appointment to the United States Senate. In 1915 he became an overseer of Harvard. He was everywhere known as Hyde of Bowdoin. There, at the outset, his youth, intellectual distinction, athletic vigor, remarkable power as a teacher, sympathetic comprehension of the college student, loyalty to the established excellences of the college, and growing public prestige, drew to him the appreciative regard of students and faculty alike. In choosing teachers he always emphasized personality equally with scholarship, and he maintained continuous harmony among them by the freedom and consideration which he accorded to each. Under his wise administration the college made notable progress in numbers and equipment. The entrance requirements were liberalized, the curriculum was greatly broadened and made largely elective, though subject to concentration requirements in chosen fields, and instruction by conference in small groups was introduced. He had many calls to other institutions, but he could never be persuaded that they offered greater opportunities for public service.
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Quotations:
"An opportunity is a conjunction of circumstances by which one may improve his condition of life or his equipment for life. "
"Live in the active voice, rather than passive. Think more about what you happen than what is happening to you. "
"Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future. "
Connections
On November 6, 1883, he married Prudence Phillips of Southbridge, Massachussets. Of this union twins, soon deceased, were born in 1884; and, in 1887, one son.