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Introduction
George W. Nasmyth was born in Cleveland, Ohio, July 9, 1882. He was educated at Cornell, Berlin, Gottingen, Heidelburg and Zurich. During his graduate studies in Europe, he founded class clubs similar in ideals to those of the American Cosmopolitan Club. These he organized into an Association of International Clubs of which he was president; in 1911, he was a delegate to the International Student Congress in Rome (7th). He was elected President of the Central Commission of the Federation Internationale des Etudiants with Louis Lochner. In the services of the international student movement, he visited the universities of 22 countries.
It was during the tense years of 1912-1914 that Nasmyth finally decided to give up mathematical physics which he had studied, and dedicate his life increasingly to the cause of international understanding and peace. In 1909, in recognition of his international work with students, he was elected a member of the Board of Directors of the World Peace Foundation, Boston. He later became a member of its executive staff. In 1919, he went again to Europe to attend the Paris Peace Conference, and to organize the first meeting since the outbreak of the war of the World Alliance for Friendship Through the Churches. It was there in Geneva that he died of a typhus infection at the age of 39, on September 20, 1920.
In addition to the above mentioned
positions, George W. Nasmyth was president of Corda Fratres,
1911-1913; an administrator in the U. S. Fuel Administration,
1917-1919; and a founder and member of the Trade Union College.
Nasmyth's correspondents included Edwin Mead, Norman Angell, E.D.
Morel, Hamilton Holt, John Haynes Holmes, Dorothy Douglas, Norman
Thomas, Frederick Lynch and Agnes Warbasse. Letters of condolence
were sent by Emily Greene Balch, David Starr Jordan, Norman Thomas,
Alfred Fried, and Lucia Ames Mead, among others.
Photographs were removed to the Photograph Collection.
See also: World Alliance for International Friendship Through the Churches (CDGA)
See also poster (with photo) re: Nasmyth's
lectures on "Vital Questions of America's Foreign Policy"
[located in Poster Box B10 (Misc. Organizations: A-Com.)]
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