John Huston Finley (1863-1940) was born in Grand Ridge, Il. He was educated in the public schools of Grand Ridge, the Ottawa (Il. ) High School, and Knox College, Galesburg, Il., receiving the degree of A. B. and A. M., and afterward took up post-graduate work at the Johns Hopkins University. He was made an honorary member of the Northwestern Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Finley was Secretary of the Illinois State Charities Aid Association, 1889-1892, and President of Knox College, 1892-1899. In the latter year, he came to New York, but after a year in the editorial departments of the publishing houses of Harpers and McClure, returned to educational work, upon an invitation to take a newly established chair at Princeton University. He was Professor of Polities at Princeton from 1900-1903, and President of the College of the City of New York from 1903 until 1913, when he was appointed President of the University of the State of New York and State of New York Commissioner of Education. His...

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