Harold Willis Dodds (June 28, 1889 – October 25, 1980) was the fifteenth president of Princeton University from 1933 to 1957.

Dodds was born on June 28, 1889, in Utica, Pennsylvania, the son of a professor of Bible studies at Grove City College.

Also, during World War II, Princeton established an accelerated program to allow students to graduate early to join the armed forces.

[2] Despite facing the Great Depression and two wars, the university continued to grow during this period, adding four new departments in aeronautical engineering, Near Eastern studies, religion, and music.

Dodds established bicentennial preceptorships to allow young faculty members to spend a year in research.

In a speech that same year in San Francisco, he claimed that communists were unfit to teach in schools or universities.