- Harry Pratt Judson
Harry Pratt Judson (1849 - 1927) was a U.S. educator and historian, born at Jamestown, N. Y., and educated at
Williams College (A.B., 1870; A.M., 1883). He taught in the Troy (N. Y.) High School in 1870-85 and wasprofessor of history andlecturer on pedagogics at theUniversity of Minnesota in 1885-92. At theUniversity of Chicago he became professor ofpolitical science and head dean of the colleges in 1892 and head of the political science department and dean of the faculties of arts, literature, and science in 1894. He served as the acting president of theUniversity of Chicago between 1906 and 1907 and as the president of the University of Chicago from 1907 until 1923.Judson became a member of the
General Education Board in 1906 and of theRockefeller Foundation in 1913. Besides editing a series of readers, he is author of:
* "History of the Troy Citizens' Corps" (1884)
* "Cæsar's Army" (1888)
* "Europe in the Nineteenth Century" (1894; third edition, revised, 1901)
* "The Growth of the American Nation" (1895; second edition, 1900)
* "The Higher Education as a Training for Business" (1896; second edition, 1911)
* "The Government ofIllinois " (1900)
* "The Essentials of a Written Constitution" (1903)
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