American educator, born at Peoria, IL, on the 19th of April 1861. He graduated from Princeton University in 1882; was a student at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1883 to 1886; and later studied at Berlin. In 1887 he was ordained a minister in the Presbyterian Church and was a pastor for four years at Chambersburg, PA. In 1891 he returned to Princeton where he taught logic as an instructor (receiving the degree of Ph.D. in 1893), assistant professor, and from 1907 professor. In 1912 he succeeded Woodrow Wilson as president.
His works include Inductive Logic (1896); The Problems of Philosophy (1898); Hegel’s Logic (1902); Deductive Logic (1905); The Philosophy of the Enlightenment (1910, contributed to the Epochs mentioned below); A Defence of Prejudice and Other Essays (1911) and The Higher Patriotism (1915). He edited Epochs of Philosophy, a series of twelve volumes written by distinguished scholars of America, Canada and Great Britain.
