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until his death in 1920 (West
Chester finally introduced the office of president in 1927). Student enrollment and campus infrastructure and capital grew substantially during his tenure. New buildings included an addition to Old Main (1889), a gymnasium (1890), the principal's house (1891), Recitation Hall (1892), the "Sanitarium" (1892), the "Model School (now Ruby Jones Hall; 1899), the
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Chester University campus was named in the principal's honor. This building houses the president's office, a concert hall, and the Philips Autographed Library of over 2,000 volumes collected by Philips and donated to the institution by his son in 1952. The George Morris Philips Society is
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Philips worked as a professor of mathematics at
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In 1913, Philips faced charges of covering up inappropriate behavior by the school's steward, Harry S. Johnson, toward female staff and students. In the most disturbing such incident, the married
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from 1894 to 1920 and served as secretary of the state commission that rewrote the
Pennsylvania School Codes between 1907 and 1911 (the legislature approved the revision in 1911). He subsequently helped guide the Pennsylvania Department of Education's acquisition of the state's independent normal
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Philips held no elected offices but assumed numerous civic and professional leadership positions. He served as president of the
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