Katharine Lee Bates retired in 1925 after a forty-year teaching career at Wellesley College. Among her collections of poetry, travel, and drama were Yellow Clover (1922) and The Pilgrim Ship (1926). Her poem "America the Beautiful" was put to music.

Mary McLeod Bethune was the founder of the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls, which was merged with the Cookman Institute for Men to form Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach in 1923. Bethune served as president of Bethune-Cookman until 1942.

Charles William Eliot, who from 1909 to 1910 edited the fifty-volume Harvard Classics series known as "Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books," published A Late Harvest, a collection of his writings, in 1924.

In 1922 Bernhard Edward Fernow, noted forester and educator, retired as editor of Forestry Quarterly and the Journal of Forestry, both of which he had founded.

Author and editor Glenn Frank in 1925 was chosen as president...