Gordon Keith Chalmers, a scholar of seventeenth-century English thought and letters, president of Rockford College and Kenyon College, and a national leader in American higher education, was a Rhodes scholarship awardee who entered Harvard University, where he earned a masters degree and his Ph. D.
Gordon Keith Chalmers (7 February 1904 in Waukesha, Wisconsin  8 May 1956 in Hyannis, Massachusetts) was a scholar of seventeenth-century English thought and letters, president of Rockford College and Kenyon College, and a national leader in American higher education. Awarded a Rhodes scholarship, he attended Wadham College at Oxford University for three years, earning his Bachelor's degree in 1928 and his Masters degree in 1934. Returning to the United States, he entered Harvard University, where he earned a masters degree and his Ph.D. 
