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"GEORGE EDGAR VINCENT (1864-), American educationist, was born at Rockford, Ill., March 21 1864. He was a son of John Heyl Vincent (d. 1920), a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and one of the founders of the Chautauqua Assembly in 1874 ( see 6.19). After graduating from Yale in 1885 he began editorial work and in 1886 was made literary editor of the Chautauqua Press. Henceforth he was active in the work at Chautauqua, was president of the Chautauqua Institution from 1907 to 1915 and thereafter honorary president. In 1892 he was appointed fellow at the university of Chicago, receiving his Ph.D. in 1896. He taught at Chicago as instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, and from 1904 to 1911 as professor of sociology. He was dean of the junior colleges from 1900 to 1907 and then for four years was dean of the faculties of arts, literature and sciences. From 1911 to 1917 he was president of the university of Minnesota. In 1917 he was chosen president of the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City; he had been a member of the General Education Board since 1914. He was author of An Introduction to the Study of Society (1895, with Albion W. Small) and The Social Mind and Education (1897).