Deaths

Felix Adler, 81, educator and social reformer, founder of the Ethical Culture Society, professor of ethics at Columbia University, 24 April 1933.

John Howard Appleton, 86, professor of chemistry at Brown University, author of many popular works on chemistry, 18 February 1930.

Irving Babbitt, 67, influential critic and Harvard University professor of modern languages, founder of the New Humanist movement in American letters, whose best-known work was Rousseau and Romanticism (1919), 15 July 1933.

William Henry Black, 75, theologian and educator, president of Missouri Valley College (1890-1925), 23 June 1930.

Frank David Boynton, 61, superintendent of the Ithaca, New York, public schools and president of the New York State teachers' association, 17 June 1930.

Elmer E. Brown, 73, educator, commissioner of education under Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and...

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