DWIGHT, THEODORE WILLIAM

| (1822-1892), jurist and educator; b. | Sai ene from Hamilton College, where | subsequently established a school of law and served as its profe or. In 1858 | | he established the law school at Columbia College, administering it until 1891. Meantime he was profe or of constitutional law at Cornell University and lecturer at Amherst College. He filled public offices as a member of the New York Constitutional Convention in 1867, and of the Commi ion of Appeal (a court created to relieve the congestion of the Court of Appeals); and was president of the New York Prison A ociation. He was an a ociate editor of the American Law Register, edited Maine’s Ancient Law, and was the author of several works on legal subjects. University president; b. Norwich, Conn.; d. New Haven, Conn. He was a graduate and tutor at Yale University and studied theology there, as well as at Berlin and Bonn. He taught sacred literature and New Testament Greek at Yale and in 1861 became a full profe or. In the same year he was ordained as a congregational minister. From 1886 to 1899 he was president of Yale, filling an office occupied by his grandfather, Timothy Dwight, from 1795 to 1817. He was succeeded by Arthur F. Hadley. During his tenure Yale became a university and greatly expanded its activities. He was a member of the American committee for the revision of the Bible, 1878-85, and an editor of the New Eng lander, later the Yale Review. His writings relate norman to biblical and educational subjects. (1752-1817), an American author and divine, graduated at Yale College, 1769, was a tutor there from 1771-77, and eighteen years later was appointed president of the college, when he proved his versatility by lecturing on a variety of subjects, and was able to influence a wide circle by the force of his virile personality. But those intervening years (1777-95) were busy ones. During the war of Independence he served as an army chaplain, and wrote Columbia, a fine battle song. For five years, 1778-83, he worked at North amp ton, preaching, farming, and interesting himself in politics, During the twelve years following he had the charge of a Congregational church in Greenfield Hill, Connecticut, and also built up an excellent school, His books show a great diversity of interest. Southey believed that posterity would best esteem his Travels in New England and New York (4 vols.), 1821-22, because of the light they throw on contemporary social and economic conditions, but his sermons, entitled Theology Explained and Defended (5 vols.), 1819, enjoyed for many years a conspicuous popularity.