ERSKINE, JOHN

(1879), college profe or; b. New York City. He was educated at Columbia University, graduating in 1900 and rejoined that institution as a istant profe or of English — nine years later, after serving meantime in a similar post at/Amherst College. In 1916 he became profe or of English’ at Columbia. In the latter stages of the World War he acted as chairman of the Army Education Commi ion of the American Expeditionary Force and as educational director of the A. E. F., University at Beaune, France. He received the U. S. Distinguished Service Medal and was made chevalier of the French Legion of Honor. As an author he wrote on and edited selected works of Elizabeth an and later poets and of Lafcadio Hearn, and was a co-editor of the Cambridge History of American Literature, 3 vols. 1917-19.