
doi: 10.2307/1916979
The following essay is one chapter from Mrs. Smith's full-length biography of Carl Becker which is being submitted to the University of Chicago as a Ph.D. thesis. The quotations from unpublished Becker writings are printed through the courtesy of the Cornell Library where Becker's papers are now on deposit. For those who have perhaps forgotten the exact chronology of Becker's life the following abbreviated sketch from the Directory of American Scholars (1942) may be helpful:
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