Reverend Samuel McChord Crothers is the minister of the First Church (Unitarian) at Cambridge, Massachusetts. The most individual among our essayists, he is known wherever the essay is read.
Professor Robert M. Gay fills the chair of English at Goucher College for Women in Baltimore.
Jean Kenyon Mackenzie is an American missionary to Southwest Africa, where she has long lived with the black folk on terms of sympathy and understanding.
Edgar J. Goodspeed is a professor of Chicago University, where he teaches biblical and patristic lore.
William T. Foster has been, since its establishment, President of Reed College, Oregon, where his policy of opposition to intercollegiate athletics is creating a new tradition of college sport.
Lida F. Baldwin is a teacher of Youngstown, Ohio, and a lover and observer of all natural things.
Fannie Stearns Gifford is a frequent contributor of both prose and verse to the Atlantic Monthly from her home in Pittsfield, Mass.
John Jay Chapman is an essayist of uncompromising vigor and independence of thought. The author of many books, including a memoir of William Lloyd Garrison, he has also published, with a notable introduction, the letters of his son Victor, who was killed in the flying service on the Western Front.
Lucy M. Donnelly is a lecturer in English in Bryn Mawr College.
Sharlot Mabridth Hall is a writer and traveler, with a very considerable and specialized knowledge of Southwestern America.