Louis Marshall, M. D.: His Administration as President of Washington College

Abstract

Louis Marshall was not a great educator, and probably deserved his obscurity. As an unrepentant individualist he is an interesting study. As a representative of personalized education, which was becoming unfashionable in his day, and has since become fashionable again, he is significant. The catalogues for Washington College during his administration, if any were published, have been lost or destroyed. There are few of his letters extant, for he hated to write. He never published anything, as far as can be discovered. Evidence of his extracurricular activities in Lexington are scarce, probably because he was inactive. This paper is an attempt to incorporate everything about him that can be brought to light. It is evidential rather than conclusive. [From Preface]