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BENJAMIN RUSH, an American educator; born in Chicago, Ill., Feb. 8, 1860; was graduated at Amherst College in 1883, and at the Hartford Theological Seminary. In 1889 he accepted a pastorate at Portsmouth, N. H., where he remained till 1892 when he went to the Newton Theological Institution, Newton Center, Mass., and in 1894 became Professor sor became Professor of Biblical Interpretation of the New Testament. There he became a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis; and was author of "The Life of Jesus of Nazareth, a Study"; "History of Theology"; etc. He was elected president of the University of Rochester, Rochester, N. Y., and Burbank professor of Biblical Literature, July 1, 1900.