[1] He attended Lawrenceville School as well as Phillips Academy for one year,[2] then Williams College, where he graduated in 1898.

degrees by Dartmouth, Yale, Amherst, the University of New Hampshire, and Harvard.

[7] Perry first married Margaret Hubbell (1881-1928), with whom he had a daughter and a son.

He died on January 27, 1970, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania[8] and is buried in the Williams College Cemetery in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

[9] See also his brother Bliss Perry, who was a noted professor of literature at Harvard.