Frederick Manning Smith
A.B., West Virginia University, 1917B.A., University of Oxford, 1916, M.A., 1919
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1922
Frederick Smith interrupted his studies at West Virginia University to pursue a Rhodes Scholarship. After receiving a B.A. from Oxford, he returned to WVU to complete his degree.
He then served for a year as a corporal in the United States Infantry, received an M.A. from Oxford, and accepted a fellowship at Cornell University, where he received a Ph.D. in 1922.
Smith returned to WVU in 1927 for the summer session as an assistant professor of English and signed his last twelve-month contract with the University in 1965 as a professor emeritus. During his tenure, the University began to grow into the group of schools and colleges that comprise it today.