Hamilton Holt
| Hamilton Holt | |
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Hamilton Holt with a copy of The Independent
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| President of Rollins College | |
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In office 1925–1949 |
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August 18, 1872 Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | April 26, 1951 (aged 78) Putnam, Connecticut |
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Yale University (1894) Columbia University (1897) |
Hamilton Holt (August 18, 1872 – April 26, 1951) was an American educator, editor, author and politician.
He was born on August 18, 1872 in Brooklyn, New York City.
Hamilton Holt graduated from Yale University in 1894 and completed graduate work in economics and sociology at Columbia University in Manhattan, New York City three years later.
Holt served as editor and publisher of the liberal weekly magazine The Independent in New York from 1897 to 1921.
He was an outspoken advocate for reform, prohibition, immigrant rights, and international peace. In 1906 he published a collection of immigrants' life stories as The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves.
In 1909 Holt was a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
He served on the executive committee of the League to Enforce Peace and was the first Executive Director of the endowment fund of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, established to support individuals and groups working to advance the cause of international peace.
In 1924 Holt unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate from Connecticut as a Democrat. He was soundly defeated by Hiram Bingham III, 60.4% to 38.6%.
In 1925, Holt became President of Rollins College and served in that capacity until 1949. His approach to education stresses a cooperative new system called the "Conference Plan" which involved extensive one-on-one interaction between professor and student. It required the college to limit enrollment and recruit professors who would be effective in their new educational mentoring roles. He also advocated a policy whereby the student body could approve or disapprove of faculty hirings, and inaugurated the Walk of Fame.
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