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JACOB GOULD, an American educator; born in Freetown, Prince Edward Island, May 22, 1854.

He won the Gilchrist Dominion scholarship, 1875; was graduated at London University, 1877; was Professor of Philosophy in Acadia College, 1880-1882; 1880- in Dalhousie College, Halifax, 1882-1886.

He became Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University and president in 1892, serving until 1920. In 1899 he was appointed president of the first Philippine Commission. He was minister to Greece and Montenegro in 1912-13. He has published: "Kantian Ethics" (1881); "The Ethical Import of Darwinism" (1888); "Agnosticism and Religion"; "A Generation of Cornell" (1898); "Report of the Philippine Commission"; "The Balkan Wars" (1912-13); "Why America Is in the War" (1917). He was also editor of the "Philosophical Review."

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