Croissant, DeWitt C.
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Though not strictly speaking a local product, having been born in Evanston, Ill., nevertheless Dr. Croissant, at an early age, migrated to “our fair city,” where he graduated from Eastern High School. He attended G.W. for a time, but being unsuccessful in his pursuit of German under Dr. Schoenfeld he shortly transferred to Princeton from which he obtained his A.B. in 1899 and his Ph.D. in 1911. He also studied at the University of Chicago, 1899-1901, and at Munich, 1903-04.
It has been learned from reliable authorities that he boasts of having flunked one subject every year throughout both High School and College. These included both German and Spanish (at Princeton). So now he teaches English.
He was instructor in English at the University of Colorado, 1901-02, and at G.W., 1905-06, becoming assistant professor 1906-10, and professor, 1911-13. He left G.W. to accept a position as associate professor of the same subject at the University of Kansas 1913-15, where he was also appointed Director of University Extension. He has been connected with the summer School of the University of Oklahoma since 1912, and was visiting professor of English at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1919-20.
Dr. Croissant returned to the University in 1916 as professor of English. He has been active on the Faculty as president of the Faculty Club, chairmen of the Faculty Committee on Student Activities 1917-19, and first president of the G.W. chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
He has been general field agent of the Simplified Spelling Board, 1915-1916 and special investigator, U.S Bureau of Efficiency, 1918-19. He is a trustee of the Educational Foundation of the National League of Masonic Clubs and is chairman of the committee in charge of raising the Endowment for the School of Diplomacy to be established at G.W. He is president of the Alumni Association of Eastern High School and is a member of numerous literary and educational societies.
At the present time Dr. Croissant is engaged in writing a life of Woodrow Wilson. He is also editing an anthology of selections form world literature. He is author of Studies in the Work of Colley Cibber.
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Author or Source: Hatchet, April 21, 1926
Document Location: University Archives
Date Added to Encyclopedia: January 22, 2007
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