Harold W Dodds

Harold Willis Dodds, son of a professor of Bible studies at Grove City College in Pennsylvania, grew up in the company of teachers and students. After receiving his bachelor’s degree at Grove City and teaching public school for two years, he did graduate work in politics at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania. During World War I he served in the U.S. Food Administration, afterwards becoming secretary of the National Municipal League. An expert in the problems of local government, with experience as a troubleshooter in Latin America, Dodds joined the Princeton faculty in 1925 as a professor of politics and was later appointed the first chair of the School of Public and International Affairs (now the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs).