William Arthur Ganfield (September 3, 1873 – October 18, 1940) was

an American minister, educator, and academic administrator. He was

ordained in 1901 and began his first preaching role later that year in

Green Bay, Wisconsin. He became a professor at Carroll College (now

Carroll University) in 1905 and taught there until he was elected

president of Centre College in 1915. During his six-year term, he helped

Centre's enrollment recover from a lull and grew the school's endowment

past $1 million for the first time, in part by reinstating ties between

the college and the Presbyterian Church. He returned to Carroll as its

president in 1921 and oversaw a strengthening of requirements for

professors and implementing tenure, pensions and a fixed salary for

faculty. Ganfield supported sports at both schools: Centre's football

team won a major upset victory over Harvard in 1921, and Carroll's

football and basketball teams each won multiple league championships

during his term.

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1651:

English Parliamentarian forces under Oliver Cromwell won the

Battle of Worcester, the final battle of the English Civil War.

1777:

American Revolutionary War: The British Army and their Hessian

allies defeated an American militia at the Battle of Cooch's Bridge.

1936:

The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America was founded in

Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada.

2001:

The Troubles: Ulster loyalists resumed a picket outside a

Catholic girls' primary school in the Protestant portion of Ardoyne, in

Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Wiktionary's word of the day:

carrel:

1. (architecture, obsolete) Alternative spelling of carol (“a small

closet or enclosure built against the inner side of a window of a

monastery's cloister, to sit in for study”).

2. (by extension) A cubicle or partitioned space for reading or

studying, often in a library. [...]

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Wikiquote quote of the day:

  In the life of each of us … there is a place remote and

islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.  

--Sarah Orne Jewett

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