VITA 



The author of this dissertation was born in Westboro, 

 Massachusetts, May 21, 1888. He prepared for college 

 at the Worcester English High School, and received the 

 A. B. degree from Clark College in 1909. After a year 

 spent in teaching he began graduate work at Clark Uni- 

 versity, from which he received the A. M. degree in 

 1911. In the autumn of the same year he entered the 

 School of Political Science, Columbia University, where 

 he attended the lectures of Professors Giddings, Chad- 

 dock, Seligman, Robinson, Devine and Lindsay. During 

 the academic year 1913-1914 he was University Fellow 

 in Sociology. In 1914 he become assistant professor of 

 sociology and economics in Hamilton College. 



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