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Erskine (JOHN an American educator born)

JOHN, an American educator, born in New York City in 1879 .

He graduated from Columbia University in 1900 and was in turn instructor of English, assistant professor, and associate professor of English at Amherst , serving until 1909, when he became adjunct professor of English at Columbia University. He was appointed full professor in 1916. He wrote several volumes of poems and was a frequent contributor to magazines on literary subjects. He was coeditor of the Cambridge History of American Literature, 1917-1919. In 1918-1919 he was chairman of the Army Education Commission of the American Expeditionary Forces , and was educational director of the American Expeditionary Forces University at Beaune, France, in 1919.