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EDWARD OCTAVIUS, an American educator, born at Gateshead, England, in 1869. He came to the United States in 1882 and was educated at Kansas State Agricultural College, University of Chicago, University of Berlin and Harvard University. From 1886 to 1891 he was a teacher and principal of public schools; from 1892 to 1897 principal of the South Side Academy, Chicago, Ill.; from 1897 to 1904 director of Bradley Polytechnic Institute, Peoria, Ill; from 1905 to 1906 assistant professor of education at the University of Illinois; from 1906 to 1912 p professor of pedagogy and director of the department of education at the University of Washington; from 1913 to 1917 State commissioner of education of Idaho; and since 1917 president of the State University of Montana. He was a member of various educational so- SISTERHOODS cieties and, besides lecturing and contributing articles on educational subjects, he was the author of "The Essentials of Character" (1910); and joint author of "The Social Emergency" (1913); "Principals of Secondary Education" (1914).