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Jacob Gould Schurman

SCHURMAN, Jacob Gould, Canadian educator, born in Freetown, Prince Edward island, 22 May, 1854. He won the Gilchrist Dominion scholarship in 1875, and was graduated in London university in 1877. He was professor of philosophy and English literature in Acadia college, Nova Scotia, in 1880-'2, and in Dalhousie college, Hall fax, in 1882-'6, was elected honorary life governor of University college, London, in 1884, and became professor of philosophy at Cornell university, which chair he now (1888) fills. He has published "Kantian Ethics and the Ethics of Evolution" (London, 1881); "The Ethical Import of Darwinism" (New York, 1887); and "A People's University," the founder's day address (Ithaca, 1888). He is a regular contributor to the "Archly fur Geschichte der Philosophic" in Berlin.

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