notably
in the Kindergarten and in co-ordination of teaching. In 1891 he
became President of the Drexel Institute and was also author of
several works on education. Thomas Davidson (1840-1900), philosopher,
educator, and author, was born at Deer, Aberdeenshire. John McLaren
McBride (b. 1846), of Scottish parentage, was President of the
University of South Carolina. Gustavus Richard Glenn (b. 1848)
descended from Nicholas Glenn, an emigrant from Scotland, filled
several important educational positions and was afterwards President
of North Georgia Agricultural College. George Edwin Maclean (b. 1850),
a distinguished English and Anglo-Saxon scholar, was fifth Chancellor
of the University of Nebraska. William Milligan Sloan (b. 1850),
author, educator, and Professor of History in Columbia University, is
descended from William Sloane, a native of Ayr, who settled here in
the beginning of the nineteenth century. James Cameron Mackenzie (b.
1852), born in Aberdeen, is founder of the Mackenzie School for Boys
at Dobbs Ferry (1901) and a frequent contributor to educational
publications. James Hervey Hyslop (b. 1854), philosopher,
psychologist, and educator, was grandson of George Hyslop of
Roxburghshire. He devoted many years to psychical research. James
Geddes (b. 1858), philologist and Professor of Romance Languages in
Boston University, is of Scottish parentage. Andrew Armstrong
Kincannon (1859-1917), Chancellor of the University of Mississippi,
was descendant of James Kincannon who came from Scotland c. 1720.
Edwin Boone Craighead (b. 1861), Professor of Greek at Wofford
College, South Carolina, and afterwards third President of Tulane
University, is of Scottish descent. John Huston Finley (b. 1863),
President of the College of the City of New York and New York State
Commissioner of Education, is a descendant of a brother of Samuel
Finley, President of Princeton College. Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin,
born in 1861, Professor of American History in the University of
Michigan, is the son of a Peebles lawyer. Duncan Black Macdonald,
Professor of Semitic Languages at Hartford Theological Seminary, was
born in Glasgow in 1863. Richard Cockburn Maclaurin (1870-1920),
seventh President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was born
in Lindean, Selkirkshire. George Hutcheson Denny (b. 1870), Professor
of Latin in Washington and Lee University, and later President of the
same institution, and James Gray McAllister (b. 1872), sixt