VINCENT, GEORGE EDGAR (1864— ), American educationalist, was born at Rockford, Ill., on March 21, 1864. After graduating at Yale in 1885, he engaged in editorial work and in 1886 was made literary editor of the Chautauqua press. He was president of the Chautauqua institution from 1907 to 1915 and thereafter honorary president. In 1892 he was appointed fellow at the University of Chicago. He taught at Chicago as in structor, assistant professor, associate professor, and from 1904 to 1911 as professor of sociology. He was dean of the junior colleges
from 1900 to 1907, and then for four years was dean of the facul ties of arts, literature and sciences. From 1911 to 1917 he was president of the University of Minnesota. He became a member of the General Education Board in 1914, and from 1917 to 1929 he was president of the Rockefeller Foundation. Vincent has written The Social Mind and Education (1897), and with Albion W. Small An Introduction to the Study of Society