Pritchett
HENRY SMITH, an American educator and head of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching since 1906; born in Missouri in 1857, he took up, after his graduation from college, the study of astronomy, becoming in 1878 assistant astronomer in the United States Naval Observatory in Washington. In 1882, he traveled to New Zealand to observe the transit of Venus. The next year Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., appointed him professor of astronomy, a position he held until 1897. For the three years, 1897 to 1900, he was superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. From 1900 to 1906 he was president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, Mass.