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SCHURMAN, JACOB GOULD (1854– )

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SCHURMAN, See also:JACOB See also:GOULD (1854– ) , See also:American educationist, was See also:born at See also:Freetown, See also:Prince See also:Edward See also:Island, on the 22nd of May 1854, of Dutch descent, his Loyalist ancestors having See also:left New See also:York in 1784. While a student at Acadia See also:College, Wolfville, Nova See also:Scotia, in 1875, he won the See also:Canadian Gilchrist scholarship in the University of See also:London, from which he received the degree of B.A. in 1877 and that of M.A. in 1878, and in 1877–188o studied in See also:Paris, See also:Edinburgh and (as Hibbert See also:Fellow) in See also:Heidelberg, See also:Berlin and See also:Gottingen. He was See also:professor of See also:English literature, See also:political See also:economy and See also:psychology at Acadia College in 188o–1882, of See also:metaphysics and English literature at See also:Dalhousie College, See also:Halifax, N.S., in 1882–1886, and of See also:philosophy (See also:Sage professor) at Cornell University in 1886--1892, being See also:Dean of the Sage School of Philosophy in 1891–1892. In 1892 he became See also:president of Cornell University. He was chairman of the First See also:United States Philippine See also:Commission in 1899, and wrote (besides a See also:part of the See also:official See also:report to See also:Congress) Philippine Affairs—A Retrospect and an Outlook (1902). With J. E. See also:Creighton and See also:James See also:Seth he founded in 1892 The Philosophical See also:Review. He also wrote Kantian See also:Ethics and the Ethics of See also:Evolution (1881); The Ethical Import of Darwinism (1888); Belief in See also:God (1890), and See also:Agnosticism and See also:Religion (1896).

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