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Charles Scott Berry
The Michigan Alumnus 53

Charles Scott Berry, who is Acting 
Assistant Professor of Education the 
present year in the absence of Pro
fessor Calvin O. Davis, was born in
 Hamlin, Kans., in 1875.

His boyhood 
and early years were spent in Kansas 
and Georgia. Later he taught school in 
Florida for a time before entering Hir
am College in Ohio, from which he
 was graduated in 1903, receiving his
 A.M. from Harvard in 1905.

While in
 college he was director of the gymnasi
um for three years, and during the 
summer he acted as director of one of 
the Cleveland playgrounds.

He re
ceived his Doctor's degree from Har
vard University in 1905. While pur
suing his graduate work at Hiram 
College, he was teacher of law, 
 and while at Harvard was assist
ant in philosophy for one-year 
and was also assistant in psychol
ogy for two sessions of the Harvard
 Summer School.

Upon receiving his
 Doctor's degree from Harvard, he was 
awarded the James Walker Traveling 
Fellowship, which entitled him to one 
year's study abroad. Most of this time
 was spent in the study of philosophy
 Berlin University.

He is the author 
of two articles on "Imitation," pub
lished in the journal of Comparative
 Neurology and Psychology in 1905
 and 1908.