Wallace Walter Atwood

Wallace Walter Atwood (October 1, 1872 – July 24, 1949) was an American geographer and geologist.

Wallace Walter Atwood studied geography at the University of Chicago, where he was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

[1] He graduated in 1897 and earned his doctorate in 1903, after which he was Associate Professor of Geology at the University of Chicago until 1913.

As president of Clark University, he ordered in 1922, that the lights be turned off while Scott Nearing was addressing a Liberal Club on socialism on the campus of the University, which won him great renown.

On this occasion, he wrote the pamphlet Extra-Curricula activities and academic freedom.