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Every enlargement of the field of knowledge has resulted in the enrichment of the academic curriculum. Great is the difference, moreover, between knowledge as knowledge and knowledge as a tool of intellectual training. Time is required for the transmutation of pure science into a practical agency or condition of discipline.

Charles Franklin Thwing

Charles Franklin Thwing

Charles Franklin Thwing

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Born: November 9, 1853

Died: August 29, 1937 (aged 83)

Bio: Rev. Charles Franklin Thwing was an American clergyman and educator.

Known for:

American Colleges: Their Students and Work (1878)
The college president (1926)
Education in the Far East (1909)
History of higher education in America (1906)

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