The New Student's Reference Work/James, Edmund J.



James, Edmund J., a writer on political economy and an American educator, was born at Jacksonville, Ill., in 1855. He attended Northwestern University ; and afterwards studied at Harvard, Halle, Leipzig and Berlin. He has in succession been principal of Evanston (Ill.) High School and of the State High School at Normal (Ill.), professor of administration and finance in the University of Pennsylvania, professor of administration in Chicago University, and (1902) president of Northwestern University (Ill.). He now is president of the University of Illinois at Urbana. He has written An Outline of a Proposed School of Political and Social Science, Chairs of Pedagogics in our Universities, The Relation of the Modern Municipality to the Gas-Supply, Our Legal Tender Decisions, The Education of Business Men in Europe, The Growth of Great Cities, etc.