. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. rs family cameto America in 1632. He was educated in the GreatBarrington public schools, Sedgwick Listitute atGreat Barrington, Massachusetts, and the WillistonSeminary at Easthampton, and graduated from Wil-liams College as Bachelor of Arts in 1871. Whilethere he was Editor of the Williams Quarterly, firstprize speaker in 1870 and Ivy Orator in 1871. Hereceived the degree of Master of Arts from Williamsin 1874 an
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. rs family cameto America in 1632. He was educated in the GreatBarrington public schools, Sedgwick Listitute atGreat Barrington, Massachusetts, and the WillistonSeminary at Easthampton, and graduated from Wil-liams College as Bachelor of Arts in 1871. Whilethere he was Editor of the Williams Quarterly, firstprize speaker in 1870 and Ivy Orator in 1871. Hereceived the degree of Master of Arts from Williamsin 1874 and that of Bachelor of Divinity from theYale Divinity School in the same year. Upon leav-ing Yale, Dr. MacLean took up religious work asPastor of the Union Congregational and PresbyterianChurch at New Lebanon, New York, serving therefor three years, and during the following four yearsas Pastor of the Memorial Presbyterian Church atTroy. In 1881 he went abroad and studied for atime at the Universities of Berlin and Leipzig, re-ceiving the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from thelatter institution in 1883, and also worked for a timeon the examination of manuscripts in the English. GEORGE E. M.\CLE.\N L^niversities of Cambridge and Oxford. Returningto America, he served for eleven years as Professorof the English Language and Literature in theUniversity of Minnesota. He was a reader in the 74 VNIVERSiriES AND THEIR SONS British Museum during 1S91 and 1892 and spent apart of 1894 in tlie same way at tlie BibliothequeNationale at Paris. In 1895 Dr. MacLean wasmade Chancellor of the University of Nebraska, andspent the following year in the inspection of Agri-cultural Experiment Stations and Colleges in Hol-land, England, Germany and France. He resignedthe Chancellorship of the University of Nebraska in1899 to accept the Presidency of the University ofIowa. Dr. MacLean is well known as an has published several technical old Englishworks and public addresses, and is a member
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