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Farrand (LIVINGSTON an American)

LIVINGSTON, an American educator, born in Newark, N. J., in 1867. He graduated from Princeton University in 1888, and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1891. He in 1891. carried on post-graduate studies in Cambridge, England, and in Berlin. He was on the faculty of Columbia University as professor of psychology and anthropology, from 1893 to 1914. In the latter year he was appointed president of the University of Colorado, serving until March 1, 1919, when he became chairman of the Central Committee of the American Red Cross. He was director of tuberculosis work in France for the International Health Board in 1917-1918.

He was a member of many American societies and was the author of "Basis of American History" (1904). He contributed to psychological and anthropological publications.