Myron Winslow Adams

{{Short description|Clergyman and fourth president of Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA}}

Myron Winslow Adams (27 November 1860 - 1939) was a clergyman and fourth president of Atlanta University.{{cite web |title=Collection: Myron W. Adams records {{!}} Archives Research Center |url=http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:019 |website=findingaids.auctr.edu |publisher=Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library |access-date=13 May 2021|hdl=20.500.12322/fa:019}} He attended Dartmouth College and received his bachelor's degree in 1881.{{cite book |last1=University |first1=New York |last2=Tobias |first2=Marilyn |title=Old Dartmouth on Trial: The Transformation of the Academic Community in Nineteenth-century America |date=1982 |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=978-0-8147-8168-5 |page=173 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=th4UCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA173 |access-date=13 May 2021 |language=en}} He received his Ph.D. from Hartford Seminary in 1895.{{cite book |last1=Seminary |first1=Hartford Theological |title=Annual Register of the Hartford Theological Seminary ... |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W1p4JH_8PXAC&pg=RA8-PA9 |access-date=13 May 2021 |language=en}} Adams joined Atlanta University in 1889 as an instructor of Greek, and later served as dean of faculty for twenty seven years before becoming president.{{cite journal |last1=Irvine |first1=Russell W. |title=Coming South: The Reverend John Howard Hincks, a Five-Year (1889-1894) Window in the Development of Atlanta University and the Social Sciences |journal=Phylon |date=2001 |volume=49 |issue=3/4 |pages=229–265 |doi=10.2307/3132631 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3132631 |access-date=13 May 2021|url-access=subscription }}{{rp|233–4}} Adams served as interim president for four years before being officially appointed in 1923. He remained in the post until 1929.{{cite book |last1=Scarborough |first1=William Sanders |title=The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship |date=2005 |publisher=Wayne State University Press |isbn=978-0-8143-3224-5 |page=343 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ejW-IsFnc5wC |access-date=13 May 2021 |language=en}}