Franklyn Bliss Snyder (July 26, 1884 – May 11, 1958)[1] was the 11th President of Northwestern University (1939–1949) and an American scholar of Scottish literature.
She chaired the English Department at Vassar College.
[3] He received his undergraduate degree from Beloit College and a Ph.D. in English from Harvard University in 1909.
Snyder joined the Northwestern faculty in 1909, became dean of the Graduate School in 1934, and was elected president of the University in 1939, succeeding Walter Dill Scott.
Snyder is remembered as being an ardent conservative and uncompromising administrator.