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LEFT McCOBHICZ 58 McCBAE publican party he did the same, and was elected to the House of Representa- tives on the Republican ticket in 1917 as Congressman-at-large for the State of Illinois. He was elected to the Senate in 1919. Mccormick, vance cbiswell, American newspaper publisher; born in Harrisburg, Pa., in 1872. He graduated from Yale, then became publisher of the "Patriot" and the "Evening News" of his native city. He was mayor of the city in 1902-1905 and Democratic candi- date for governor of the State in 1914. In 1916 he was chairman of the Demo- cratic National Campaign Committee. In 1917 he was chairman of the War Trade Board, and was a member of the U. S. War Mission to Great Britain and France, McCOBMICK THEOLOGICAL SEMI- NABY, a Presbyterian divinity school located at Chicago, 111. Cyrus H. McCor- mick endowed the school in 1859 and gave it its present location, and the Sem- inary assumed its present name in 1886 after the death of McCormick. In 1905 Mrs. McCormick and her sons further increased the endowment by a million dollars. The Seminary has 13 buildings, among which is a library with upward of 40,000 volumes. These are valued, to- gether with the grounds, at a million dollars, and the endowment fund has now reached two millions. The Semi- nary charges no fees for tuition or lodging. McCOSH, JAMES, a Scotch-American theologian; born in Carskeoch, Ayrshire, Scotland, April 1, 1811. In 1851, having joined the Free Church of Scotland, he became Professor of Logic in the college at Belfast, Ireland. In 1868, at the solici- tation of the faculty and trustees of Princeton College, N. J., he came to the United States and became president of that institution. Under his guidance and the influence of his name Princeton ad- vanced to a higher place than ever before among the universities of the United States. He wrote : "Method of the Divine Government" (1850) ; "Intuitions of the Mind" (1860) ; "The Supernatural in Relation to the Natural" (1862) ; "Ex- amination of Mill's Philosophy, etc." (1866) ; "Christianity and Positivism" (1871) ; "The Development Theory" (1876); "Psychology" (1887); "Reli- gious Aspects of Evolution" (1888); etc. He resigned the presidency of Princeton in 1888. He died in Princeton, N. J., Nov. 16, 1894. MacCBACKEN, HENBY MITCHELL, an American educator; bom in Oxford, O., Sept. 28, 1840; was graduated at the Miami University in 1857; studied at the Princeton Theological Seminary and in Europe; was pastor of the First Pres- byterian Church, Toledo, 0., in 1868- 1880; chancellor of Western University, Pittsburgh, in 1880-1884; accepted the chair of philosophy and the vice-chancel- lorship of New York University in the latter year. He was chosen chancellor in 1891. Under his direction the univer- sity developed in numbers and influence, and became one of the largest educational institutions in the world. He resigned in 1910, becoming chancellor emeritus. He died Dec. 24, 1918. His publications in- clude "Tercentenary of Presbyterian- ism"; "Kant and Lotze"; "A Metropoli- tan University"; "Leaders of the Church Universal" (3 vols.); "Lives of Church Leaders: or, Heroes of the Cross" (1900); "Urgent Eastern Questions" (1912); etc. MacCBACKEN, HENBY NOBLE, president of Vassar College; bom in 1880, the son of the clergyman and edu- cator Henry Mitchell MacCracken (q.v.). Graduated an A. B. from New York Uni- versity in 1900 and Ph. D. from Harvard in 1907. Instructor in English at the Syrian Protestant College, Beirut, and later also at Harvard. In 1913-1914 he was professor of English at Smith Col- lege, In the latter year he was elected president of Vassar. He is the author of several textbooks in English and of "An Introduction to Shakespeare" (1910). MacCBACKEN, JOHN HENBY, Pres- ident of Lafayette College; born in 1875 at Rochester, Vt., the son of Henry Mitchell MacCracken; graduated from New York University (A. M. 1897), Union Theological Seminary (1895). and Halle (Ph. D.) 1899. He became an in- structor in New York University and later president of Westminster College, Missouri. In 1903 he returned to New York University as professor of politics, where he remained until 1914, when he was chosen president of Lafayette Col- lege. President MacCracken has been actively engaged in the educational ac- tivities of the Presbyterian Church. McCBAE, JOHN, Canadian physi- cian and poet; born in Guelph, On- tario, in 1872, killed in the World War in 1918. Became fellow in pathol- ogy at McGill University and collab- orated vdth Prof. Adami on a text book on that subject. He was physician at the Alexandra Hospital when the war broke out, and was among the first to ofi'er his services, going abroad with the Canadian Field Artillery. During his