biography
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| (1811–94)
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| biography:
| College president and philosopher, born in Ayrshire, SW Scotland, UK. He left a professorship at Queen's College, Belfast, Ireland (1852–68) to become president (1868–88) of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University), and revitalized the college after its post-Civil War decline. A member of the Scottish school of philosophy, he wrote Intuitions of the Mind (1860) and Examination of... Mill's Philosophy (1866). |
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