American educationist and author, born in Bristol, NH, on the 22nd of March 1863; educated at New Hampton Institution and at Dartmouth College, from which latter institution he graduated in 1888. He was the poet of his class. After serving as principal of high schools in Eatontown, NJ, and in Mendon, MA, he was, in 1890, made principal of Coe’s Academy, Northwood, NH, where he served four years. After 1894 he was professor of English and rhetoric in the Pennsylvania State College. He published Literature in the Public Schools (1891); The Wine of May, and Other Lyrics (1893); Pasquaney, sketches of a New Hampshire lake (1894); A History of American Literature, with a View to the Fundamental Principles Underlying Its Development (1896). He contributed the chapter The Short Story to The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.
