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Rh Principal Louisa High School, Louisa, Virginia, 1907-'09; instructor in philosophy University of Virginia, 1909-'10; assistant in philosophy Columbia University, 1910-'11; University Fellow at Columbia, 1911-'12. Is now (1914) teaching philosophy at Columbia University.

Was debater and medalist, Graham-Lee Literary Society W. and L. U., 1901.

Member of the Phi Beta Kappa, University of Virginia, and Theta Delta Chi fraternity, author of "A Study of the Realistic Movement in Contemporary Philosophy," and joint author of "Guide to the Study of the History of Philosophy."

5., youngest child of Andrew and Mary Mitchel McClure, was born near Waynesboro, Augusta County, Va., August 11, 1795, named for his grandfather, Thomas Mitchel, raised by his aunt, Elizabeth Mitchel Fulton, his mother having died when he was three weeks old. The following letters, now in the hands of the writer, together with a newspaper notice of his death, give us the outline of his life:

", June 18, 1830.

Dear Brother and Sister.

I gladly embrace the preasant oportunity of informing you that we enjoy tolerable degree of health, for which reasons we feel thankful to God for His mercies towards us and sincerely hope these lines will find your family enjoying the like blessing with my good old uncle and Ant Betsy, whom I oftimes have desired to see and converse with face to face and have prayed that our Heavenly Father would comfort them in their declining years with the riches of His grace, and as their bodies ripen for the grave, their souls may be ripening for heaven and glory beyond this vale of tears. My oald friends contend for the promise they that prove faithful till death shall have a crown of life at God's right hand, for our lives is frail and uncertain. See the instance of our dear sister, who was a few months agow in good health is now in eternity. I