Vita

Finley Melville Kendall Foster was born in New York City, New York, January 27, 1892. He was educated in the public schools of New York City, and at New York University, where he was graduated A.B., in 1913, and A.M., in 1914. He spent the years 1913-15, including the Summer School session of 1914, in graduate study at New York University. During the year 1913-14 he was A. Ogden Butler Classical Fellow of New York University and assistant in English. During the years 1914-16 he was instructor in English at New York University. During the year 1915-16 he pursued certain courses in graduate study in English at Columbia University. The year 1916-17 he spent in full residence at Columbia University. In 1917 he was appointed instructor in English at Delaware College; and in March, 1918, assistant professor of English.