TILDEN, Francis Calvin - Putnam

FRANCIS CALVIN TILDEN, professor of comparative literature at DePauw University, also university librarian, is an able scholar and teacher, and has also enjoyed the opportunities of broad contact with men and affairs. He was born at Morris, Illinois, December 20, 1872, son of Allen Sherwood and Elvira (Willis) Tilden. He completed his literary education at DePauw many years before he returned to that institution to take a chair of instruction. He was a member of the class of 1897. Later, in 1899, he took the A. B. degree at Harvard University, and during 1904 he studied abroad in Oxford of England and at that time did considerable research work in the British Museum. Mr. Tilden for several years employed his abilities as a lecturer for the Anti-Saloon League. He was a member of the Indiana State Senate for the term 1909-11. He has held the chair of professor of comparative literature at DePauw since 1918. During these years he has traveled extensively as a lecturer on modern literature and social problems, and has been a contributor, to American educational journals. Mr. Tilden is a member of the Modern Language Association of America, the National Council of Teachers of English, and is a Phi Beta Kappa. He belongs to the social fraternity Delta Upsilon. He is a Methodist and a Democrat. Some of his most valuable work at DePauw has been done through the office of librarian. The Carnegie Library at DePauw was built in 1907. The university has an unusually rich collection of books, comprising an aggregate of nearly seventy thousand volumes, including among other private collections that of the late Governor Whitcomb. Mr. Tilden married, September 13, 1900, Ethel Nash Arnold, of Greencastle. They have three children, Francis Allen, Elizabeth and Richard Arnold