Charles Henry Fowler | |
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4th President of Northwestern University | |
In office 1872–1876 | |
Preceded by | Erastus Otis Haven |
Succeeded by | Oliver Marcy (acting) |
Personal details | |
Born | Burford Ontario, Canada | August 11, 1837
Died | March 20, 1908 New York City, New York | (aged 70)
Spouse | Myra Amanda Hitchcock (1842-1918) |
Alma mater | Genesee Wesleyan Seminary |
Profession | Educator |
Website | [1] |
Charles Henry Fowler (August 11, 1837 – March 20, 1908) was a Canadian-American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church (elected in 1884) who served as the 4th President of Northwestern University from 1872 to 1876.[2]
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The elite as I see it are the people that run the country. The broad elite consists of the people who are prominent in Kansas City or Indianapolis or individual cities. They're the CEOs of the most important industries. They're the mayor, the people who own the TV stations, et cetera. The narrow elite are those people who have effects on the nation's culture and economics and politics. That's a very small group. You're probably talking about fewer than 100,000 people all together who have that kind of power. And that's what I see as the class the broad elite and the narrow elite who have drawn away from the rest of the country and formed enclaves and cultures of their own. They eat different foods. They drink different alcoholic beverages. The upper class, for example, has a disdain of extraordinary force about domestic mass market beer. You will never see Budweiser in the refrigerator of a member of the new upper class. They raise their children differently. They go to different churches. They have different religious attitudes in general, if they go to church at all. In almost every way they have folk ways that separate them from mainstream America. Take television for example. The average television set in the United States of America is on 35 hours a week. That\'92s probably too much, but the fact is, the people that are watching that television get an exposure to a popular culture in very large doses. What does the new upper class watch on television? Downton Abby , Madmen , the more adventurous probably watch Breaking Bad \i0 \'96 but aside from that, they don't really watch TV. And, in fact, a lot of them will say to you, Gee, we don't even really have a TV anymore. Okay, that's fine. I'm not saying there's something virtuous about watching TV 35 hours a week. I am saying that when you have that kind of divergence in that single behavior you have part of the reason that you have an ignorance of, and oftentimes a disdain of, mainstream America by the new upper class, which is very problematic in terms of the future of the country. One of the things in the book that really worked was my Bubble Quiz. You know, I faced the problem of because my audience really is upper middle class and upper class people, especially young people, and I wanted to convince them of the degree to which they are isolated in many cases. And since a lot of times you can't bring too much quantitative data to bear on that, I said, Well, I'll let them prove it to themselves. So I have a 25 item quiz in it, and a high score means you are not in an upper middle class bubble. And a low score means you are. So some questions are the importance is very obvious, have you ever lived in a neighborhood in which more than half of your neighbors did not have college degrees? For example. Some of them are a little mischievous have you ever stocked your refrigerator with mass market American beer? Since the signature of - one of the signatures of the new upper class is that all their beers are handcrafted small batch boutique beers. Other questions, to me, are really significant in what they say about the larger aspect of a person's life. For example, have you ever walked on a factory floor? Not necessarily, have you worked in a factory before? Have you ever seen a factory floor close up. remembering for a moment that all of these wonderful objects that fill your lives were made almost all of them \'96 on factory floors? If I had to pick out the one question that I think is the most important of all it is this: Have you ever held a job that caused a body part to hurt at the end of the day? It's okay if you just have feet that ache because you've been standing on your feet all day. That counts too. But if you have never held such a job, you are intrinsically, inherently, ineluctably unable to understand the lives of a great many of your fellow countrymen who do hold such jobs. I hope that the quiz has had a salutary effect on bringing to people's attention the degree to which they live in a bubble that seals them off from an awful lot of their fellow American citizens.
Early life
Charles was born in Burford Ontario, Canada. At the age of four he was taken to Illinois, United States. Charles spent some time at the Rock River Seminary in Illinois. Then he entered the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, Livingston County, New York (which became Syracuse University), graduating in 1859. He received the honors of his class and had been the student of another President of Northwestern University, Joseph Cummings, who taught at the seminary from 1854–1867.[3] He matriculated at the Garrett Biblical Institute (connected to Northwestern University) in Evanston, Illinois, from which he graduated in 1861.
At one time he was engaged to Frances E. Willard, famous suffragette and first dean of women of Northwestern University. Their split eventually resulted in her ouster from that position by Fowler.
Ordained ministry
The Rev. Fowler joined the Rock River Annual Conference in 1861. He served in the pastorate for twelve years, all in the city of Chicago. He collected $40,000 in Eastern cities for the relief of Chicago's churches following the Great Chicago Fire. In 1872 the Rev. Dr. Fowler became the president of Northwestern University in Evanston, having declined this same position in 1861. Four years later he was made Editor of the Christian Advocate based in New York City, an important Methodist periodical of that day. In 1880 he was elected missionary secretary of his denomination. In 1884 he was elected to the episcopacy by the General Conference of the M.E. Church. During a large part of his episcopal service his residence was in San Francisco.
Founding the College of Puget Sound
Dr. Fowler was also the main founder of the College of Puget Sound (now the University of Puget Sound). He came up with the idea while in Tacoma, Washington for a Methodist conference.[4]
Founding Universities in China
Dr. Fowler was the founder of Yenching University and University of Nanking in China.[5][6]
See also
References
- ^ "Northwestern University Biography of Charles Fowler". Archived from the original on 2018-05-01. Retrieved 2013-08-02.
- ^ Pridmore, Jay (2000). Northwestern University: Celebrating 150 Years. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. ISBN 0-8101-1829-7. Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2013-08-02.
- ^ "Wesleyan University Biography of Joseph Cummings".
- ^ Walter Davis, "University of Puget Sound," in Told By the Pioneers, Works Progress Administration, 3 vols. 1937-38; scanned copy archived at the Flickr page of the University of Puget Sound Department of Politics and Government
- ^ "贝施福与燕京大学贝公楼--读书--人民网". book.people.com.cn (in Chinese (China)). Retrieved 2017-05-19.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "南京大学校史". historymuseum.nju.edu.cn (in Chinese (China)). Archived from the original on 2020-10-22. Retrieved 2017-05-19.