Hutchins
HARRY BURNS, an American educator; born in Lisbon, N.
H., in 1847. He gr graduated University of Michigan in 1871. He was instructor and assistant professor of history and professor of law in University of Michigan from 1872 to 1887. From 1887 to 1894 he was professor of law in Cornell University, and from 1895 to 1909 was professor of law and dean of the Department of Law at the University of Michigan. He was acting president of that institution in 1897-1898, and again from 1909 to 1910. He was consulting editor of "American and English Encyclopedia of Law and Procedure," and wrote the biography of Thomas M.
Cooley. He contributed much to legal and other periodicals.