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Aydelotte was born in a small town in Indiana and attended Indiana University where he was an English major, a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity, earned a varsity letter in football and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1911. After graduation he became an English professor first at a teaching college in California, Pennsylvania , then at Vincennes University and Louisville Male High School in Louisville, Kentucky . He became a Rhodes Scholar and studied at Brasenose College , Oxford University . PRESIDENT OF SWARTHMORE COLLEGE By 1921 Aydelotte was president of Swarthmore College where he successfully blended the educational processes he learned at Oxford with the traditional Hicksite Quaker values the college was founded on. He expanded the college to an economically viable size and developed a broad-based liberal arts educational curriculum that stressed academic excellence. He is known for introducing the Honors program at Swarthmore, a program based on his experiences at Oxford. The system is based on the premise that the only true education is self-education, and the idea was to create a set of seminar courses for selected students that were more challenging than the regular curriculum. These students would not receive grades or examinations, but would receive oral examinations at the end of the senior year given by external examiners. This replaced the lecture method of teaching for the advanced students, and introduced the notion of the students reaching the faculty. This method of teaching has become the signature of a Swarthmore College education. Aydelotte's tenure at Swarthmore was long and his impact was great. INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY During Aydelotte's time as director of the the creation of the Rhodes-Milner Round Table Groups from the first and the Rhodes Scholarships from the last. PUBLICATIONS
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