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Clinton Scollard (1860–1932) was a prolific American poet and occasional writer of fiction. He was a Professor of English at Hamilton College, and collaborator and husband of Jessie Belle Rittenhouse. Scollard was born at Clinton, New York on 28 September 1860, son of James Isaac and Mary Elizabeth (Stevens) Scollard.[1] He graduated from Hamilton College in 1881, and later attended Harvard, ,[2] where his friends included poets Bliss Carman and Frank Dempster Sherman. At Hamilton, where he was a member of the Chi Psi Fraternity, he played varsity baseball and is credited with introducing the curveball to college baseball. After a period in Cambridge, Mass., he spent a year at Cambridge in England. In 1888 he became an Associate Professor of English at Hamilton College, where he remained until 1896. Except for a further year in the English Department at Hamilton College in 1911, he devoted the rest of his life to creative writing.[3] Hamilton granted him an honorary L.H.D. in 1906.[4]"