Meta Glass

Meta Glass (August 16, 1880 – March 20, 1967) was an American classics scholar, educator, and college administrator. From 1925 through 1946, she was the third president of Sweet Briar College. She was also president of the Association of American Colleges and the American Association of University Women for several years. Early life Meta Glass was born in 1880 in Petersburg, Virginia to newspaperman and former Confederate Major Robert Henry Glass and his second wife, Meta Sanford Glass. Her older half-brother was Carter Glass. Education Glass received an MA from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1899. She also studied at Cornell University in 1903. She earned a PhD degree in classics from Columbia University in 1913, although she had known no Greek before beginning that program. Between 1929 and 1946 she received eight honorary doctorates as well.