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The author of this dissertation, PAUL E. BELTING, was born at Illiopolis, Sangamon County, Illinois, on September 5, 1886. He received his early education in the public schools of Illinois, graduating from the Mattoon, Illinois, High School in 1907. He was a student in the Eastern Illinois State Normal School at Charleston, Illinois, and upon graduation in 1909 became the principal of the Martinsville, Illinois, High School for one year. He was a student in the University of Illinois from 1910 to 1912, from which institution he received the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1912. He was principal of the Globe, Arizona, High School in 1912-1913, and principal of the Oskaloosa, Iowa, High School from 1913 to 1917. He did graduate work at the University of Illinois during the summer sessions of 1912, 1916, and 1917. He was an assistant in games at the Horace Mann School for Boys, New York City, and a student in Teachers College, Columbia University from 1917 to 1919 and received the Master of Arts degree in 1918.

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