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GEORGE ALLEN, an American educator; born in Springfield, Ohio, in 1862. He graduated from Antioch College in 1890. After teaching in the public schools of Ohio for several years, he became professor and principal of the Normal Department of Antioch College. He remained here until 1898 when he became teacher of English at Erasmus Hall School, in Brooklyn.

From 1904 to 1906 he was vice-president and dean of Berea College. After occupying chairs in other colleges he was appointed president of the Lincoln Memorial University at Tennessee, in 1910. He was a member of many scientific and economic societies. He wrote "Guide in the Study of Geography" (1896); "The Child and the Bible" (1900); "Men of the Bible" (1903); "Horace Mann" (1910).

HUBERTSBURG (hö'berts-börg), formerly a royal hunting-seat of Saxony, 25 miles E. by S. from Leipsic, built in 1721 by Prince Frederick Augustus, afterward King Augustus III. of Poland. It was much injured during the Seven Years' War; and there Feb. 15, 1763, was signed the treaty by which that war was ended.

HUBLI (hö'bli), a town of Dharwar in the presidency of Bombay, British India, on a road leading to Karwar on the Malabar coast, 102 miles S. W. It is one of the principal cotton marts in that section of India. Pop. about 70,000. KLEBERRY, an American name for the whortleberry.

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