Professor Of History: ROBINSON, rob'in-san, James Harvey,American historian and educator: b. Bloomington, 111., June 29, 1863; d. New York, N.Y., Feb. 16, 1936. He graduated from Harvard College in 1887, and received his Ph.D. from the LTniversity of Freiburg, Germany, in 1890. Upon his return to the L'nited States, he was appointed lecturer of European history at the University of Pennsylvania, becoming assistant professor in the following year. He was professor of history at Columbia LJniversity from 1895 to 1919, when he resigned and, with Charles A. Beard, founded the New School for Social Research.
ROBERTSON, James Craigie, Scottish clergyman : b. Aberdeen, Scotland, 1813 ; d. Canterbury, England, July 9, 1882. He was graduated from Cambridge in 1834, and took orders in the Anglican Church in 1836. He was made canon of Canterbury in 1859, and from 1867-1874 was professor of ecclesiastical history at King's College, London. He published How Shall We Conform to the Liturgy (1843) ; Church History (1852-1873) ; Plain Lectures on the Growth of Papal Power (1876) ; edited Heylyn's History of the Reformation (1849) ; Materials for the History of Archbishop Thomas Becket (1875-1882), etc.
Starting as an instructor in history at Yale, Criswold became full professor of history in 1947. Meanwhile, in 1934, he had helped to found the Yale Political Union, a student public affairs forum. He also played a leading part in enlisting alumni as active counselors and participants at the planning level of university administration. |
