Education
Born in Warsaw, Illinois to Thomas B. and Mary A. (Chambers) Metcalf obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree at the Illinois State Normal University in 1894, and his Doctor of Philosophy from the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1897.
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Henry Clayton Metcalf
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In Autumn 1899 Metcalf was appointed College Professor at Tufts College in Massachusetts, where early 1900s he first worked with Mary Parker Follett. In the 1910s he was also lecturer at Garland School of Homemaking in Boston, and at the New York Edison School. In 1914 he explained, that he had spent several "summers in travel in Europe and the United States, studying methods of industry and employers" welfare institutions." In the 1910s he was also chairman of Tufts College, and until 1919 Cornelia M. Jackson Professorship of in Political Science at Tufts" Department of Economics.
In 1917 he took leave of absence from his duties at Tufts College and visited industrial plants and educational institutions.
In 1919 Metcalf moved New York, where he was appointed Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research, and Director of the Bureau of Personnel Administration.
