Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Beers, Henry Augustin

BEERS, HENRY AUGUSTIN, an American educator, born in Buffalo in 1847. He graduated from Yale University in 1869, and in the following year he was admitted to the bar of New York. He joined the faculty of Yale University as tutor in 1871 and became assistant professor in 1864 and professor of English literature in 1880. He wrote "A Century of American Literature" (1878); "From Chaucer to Tennyson" (1890); "The Ways of Yale" (1895); "Points at Issue" (1904); etc. He was a frequent contributor to the leading magazines and wrote, in addition to those mentioned above, several volumes of verse.