HARRIS, WILLIAM TORREY American educationalist, was born in North Killingly, Conn., on Sept. so, 1835. He studied at Phillips academy, Andover, Mass., and en tered Yale, but left in his junior year to teach in St. Louis, Mo., being city superintendent of schools from 1867 until 1880. There he grew interested in modern German philosophy; he founded in 1867 The Journal of Speculative Philosophy; and later became a lecturer at the Concord School of Philosophy. In 1873, with Miss Susan E. Blow, he established in St. Louis the first permanent public school kindergarten in America. From 1889 to 1906 he was U.S. commissioner of education. Besides being a contributor to the magazines and encyclopaedias on educational and philosoph ical subjects, he wrote An Introduction to the Study of Philosophy (1889) ; The Spiritual Sense of Dante's Divina Commedia (1889) ; and Psychologic Foundations of Education (1898) ; he interpreted Hegel to American readers; he edited Appleton's International Education Series and Webster's New International Dictionary. He died in Providence, R.I., on Nov. 5, 1909.