SCHURMAN, JACOB GOULD

(1854), an American educationalist; 6. at Free town, Prince Edward Isl. While won the Canadian Gilchrist Scholarship to the London Univ., at which he graduated, and studied later at Paris, Edinburgh, Heidelberg, Berlin, and Gottingen. Prof. of English literature at Acadia College, Dalhousie College, Halifax, and of philosophy at Cornell Univ., of which he became president in 1892, serving until 1920. He was minister to Greece, 1912-3, and was appointed Minister to China in 1921. He was chairman of the First United States Philippine Commi ion, 1899. Among his works are: Philippine Affairs, 1902: Kantian Ethics and the Ethics of Evoluion, 1881; Ethic Import of Darwin ism, 1888; Belief in God, 1890; Agnosticism und Religion, 1896; The Balkan Wars, ee Why America is in the War,