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See also:DWIGHT, See also:THEODORE See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1822-1892) , See also:American jurist and educationalist, See also:cousin of Theodore Dwight See also:Woolsey and of See also:Timothy Dwight, was See also:born on the 18th of See also:July 1822 in See also:Catskill, New See also:York. His See also:father, See also:Benjamin Woolsey Dwight (1780-1850), an abolitionist and reformer, removed to See also:Clinton, New York, in 1831. The son graduated at See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton See also:College in 1840, studied physics under S. F. B. See also:Morse and See also:John William See also:Draper, taught See also:classics in See also:Utica See also:Academy in 184o-1841, and studied See also:law for one See also:year at Yale. He was See also:tutor at Hamilton in 1841-1846, at the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time teaching law privately; was made See also:Maynard See also:professor of law, See also:history, See also:civil polity, and See also:political See also:economy in 1846; received recognition of his law school in 1853, and in 1858 accepted an invitation to See also:Columbia to See also:teach law upon his own See also:condition that he should found a law school. He himself was this school for many years and did not retire from it until 1891, about a year before his See also:death, at Clinton, New York, on the 28th of See also:June 1892. A See also:man of broad culture, he was best known as the founder of a famous school of law and a famous method of legal teaching, which was broadly educational and which called for class-See also:room recitation on the See also:text-See also:book studied and opposed See also:mere "taking notes " on lectures. His questioning was illustrative and its method Socratic. He was a non-See also:resident professor of law at Cornell (1869-1871) and at See also:Amherst (1870-1872). Dwight was an able jurist, frequently acted as See also:referee in difficult questions, in 1874-1875 was a See also:judge of the New York See also:commission of appeals, appointed to clear the See also:docket of the See also:court of appeals, and in 1886 was counsel for the five See also:Andover professors charged with See also:heresy. He was a prominent figure in political and social (notably See also:prison) reforms; published in 1867 a See also:Report on the Prisons and Reformatories of the See also:United States and See also:Canada, the result of his labours on a New York See also:state prison commission with See also:Enoch See also:Cobb Wines (1806-1879); favoured indeterminate sentences; See also:drew up the See also:bill for the See also:establishment of the See also:Elmira Reformatory; and organized the State Charities Aid Association. He edited See also:Sir See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Maine's See also:Ancient Law (1864); was See also:associate editor of the American Law See also:Register and legal editor of See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson's Cyclopaedia; and published Charitable Uses: See also:Argument in the See also:Rose Will See also:Case (1863).
End of Article: DWIGHT, THEODORE WILLIAM (1822-1892)
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