MEZES, Sidney Edward, American edu cator: b. Belmont, Cal., 23 Sept. 1863. He was graduated from the University of Cali fornia in 1884 and received his doctor's degree from Harvard University in 1893. From 1892 to 1914 he was engaged in teaching, principally at the University of Texas, where he was pro fessor of philosophy and dean of the college. In 1908 he was elected president of that uni versity, and in 1914 he succeeded John H. Fin ley as president of the College of the City of New York. Dr. Mezes is ex-president of the Texas Academy of Science and has contrib uted many articles on ethical and philosophical subjects for reviews. His published works are 'The Conception of God) (1897) • 'Ethics, Descriptive and Explanatory' (1901), and articles in reviews on education, ethics and philosophy.
MgZIkRES, Alfred Jean Francois, alfra zhoti fraii-swa ma-ze-ir, French critic and politician: b. Reboil, 19 Nov. 1826; d. October
1915. He studied at the Ecole Normale and in Athens; was professor of literature at Nancy (1854-61) and at the Sorbonne (1863) ; be came an Academician in 1874; in politics is a member of the moderate Opportunists, and was deputy from 1881 to 1900, when he was elected senator for Meurthe-et-Moselle. Be sides contributions to the Revue des Deux Mondes and Temps, he wrote 'Shakespeare' (1861) ; 'Shakespeare's Predecessors and Con temporaries' (1863) ; 'Shakespeare's Contem poraries and Successors' (1864) ; 'Dante' (1865) ; (Petrarch) (1867); 'Goethe' (1872 73) ; France' (1883); 'Outside of (1883) ; 'Mirabeau' (1891) ; (Petrarch) (1895) ; 'Dead and Living' (1898) ; 'The Passing Time' (1906) ; 'Portraits of Soldiers' (1907) ; 'Ulbina Verba' (1914).