GROWING INTEREST IN COURSES IN BIOGRAPHY

It is interesting to note the rapid spread of academic interest in biography as a recognized part of the curriclum. Wittenberg College has joined Carleton and Dartmouth in establishing a chair of biography, after a careful investigation of its educational value and accomplishments. Boston University has just established a course in psychography, employing the term which is preferred by Gamaliel Bradford, our most eminent American biographical writer. Dr. Richard Cabot is teaching courses in biography in Harvard and in Cambridge Divinity School, and Professor Vernon of our own department has just accepted an invitation to give a two hour course in Christian biography at Union Theological Seminary during the first semester next year. His lectures each week are to follow one another on the same morning, so as not to interfere with his courses in Dartmouth.

The New York Times has recognized the favor which biography is enjoying by appropriating five hundred thousand dollars for the execution of the project of the Council of the Learned Societies of America to publish an Encyclopedia of American Biography.