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Lewis Perry (January 3, 1877 – January 27, 1970) was an American educator and the eighth principal of Phillips Exeter Academy.

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Lewis Perry was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, on January 3, 1877, to Arthur Latham Perry, a prominent economist, and Mary Brown Perry.cite-ref-1[1] He attended Lawrenceville School as well as Phillips Academy for one year,cite-ref-2[2] then Williams College, where he graduated in 1898. In Williams, he was the national president of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, of which his father helped found the Williams branch.cite-ref-3[3] He was also the first student to be awarded the Rogerson Cup award, the "highest award for alumni service" at Williams.cite-ref-4[4] He then attended Princeton University, where he earned an M.A. and a L.H.D degree. From 1901 to 1914, he taught English at Williams. In 1914, he became principal of Exeter. It was under Perry in 1919 that the Exeter Summer program was created.cite-ref-5[5] It was also under him that philanthropist Edward Harkness donated to the school $5.8 million to create the Harkness table teaching method in 1930.cite-ref-6[6] He retired in 1946.

Over his lifetime, he was awarded honorary L.H.D. degrees by Dartmouth, Yale, Amherst, the University of New Hampshire, and Harvard.cite-ref-7[7]

Perry first married Margaret Hubbell, with whom he had a daughter and a son. He later married Hubbell's sister, Juliette Adams, whose two daughters from her first marriage, Juliette and Margaret, became his stepdaughters. He died on January 27, 1970, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.cite-ref-8[8] a

See also his brother Bliss Perry, who was a noted professor of literature at Harvard.

cite-note-11. ↑ citerefcollectionsCollections, Williams College Archives & Special. "Lewis Perry (1877-1970)". archives.williams.edu. Retrieved June 13, 2017.

cite-note-22. ↑ citereffuess1917Fuess, Claude Moore (1917). An Old New England School: A History of Phillips Academy Andover. Houghton Mifflin. p. 114. lewis perry .

cite-note-33. ↑ citerefcollectionsCollections, Williams College Archives & Special. "Lewis Perry (1877-1970)". archives.williams.edu. Retrieved June 13, 2017.

cite-note-44. ↑ "Lewis Perry, Class of 1898". Alumni Awards. Retrieved June 13, 2017.

cite-note-55. ↑ "Exeter Summer | Phillips Exeter Academy". www.exeter.edu. Retrieved June 13, 2017.

cite-note-66. ↑ A Declaration of Readers' Rights: Renewing Our Commitment to Students. Pearson/Allyn and Bacon. 2008. ISBN 9780205499793.

cite-note-77. ↑ citerefcollectionsCollections, Williams College Archives & Special. "Lewis Perry (1877-1970)". archives.williams.edu. Retrieved June 13, 2017.

cite-note-88. ↑ "Dr. Lewis Perry, Ex‐Principal Of Phillips Exeter, Dead at 93". The New York Times. January 28, 1970. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 13, 2017.

• Lewis Perry of Exeter: A Gentle Memoir. By William Gurdon Saltonstall. Simon & Schuster, 1980.