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WOOLSEY, THEODORE DWIGHT (18or—1889)

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WOOLSEY, See also:THEODORE See also:DWIGHT (18or—1889) , See also:American educationalist, was See also:born in New See also:York See also:City on the 31st of See also:October 1801. He was the son of a New York See also:merchant, a See also:nephew of See also:Timothy Dwight, See also:president of Yale, and a descendant of See also:Jonathan See also:Edwards. He graduated at Yale in 1820; was a See also:tutor at Yale in 1823—1825; studied See also:Greek at See also:Leipzig, See also:Berlin and See also:Bonn in 1827—1830; became See also:professor of Greek See also:language and literature at Yale in 1831; and was elected president of the See also:college and entered the Congregational See also:ministry in 1846. He resigned the See also:presidency in 1871, and died on the 1st of See also:July 1889 in New Haven. During his See also:administration the college See also:grew rapidly, the scientific school and the school of See also:fine arts were established, and the scholarly See also:tone of the college was greatly improved. Much of his See also:attention in his last years was devoted to the American See also:commission for the revision of the authorized version of the New Testament, of which he was chairman (1871—1881). He prepared excellent See also:editions of See also:Alcestis (1834), See also:Antigone (1835), See also:Prometheus (1837) and See also:Gorgias (1843). He published several volumes of sermons and wrote for the New Englander, of which he was a founder, for the See also:North American See also:Review, for the See also:Prince-ton Review and for the See also:Century, and his Introduction to the Study of See also:International See also:Law, designed as an Aid in Teaching and in See also:Historical Studies (r86o) and his See also:Divorce and Divorce Legislation (1882) went through many editions. He also wrote See also:Political See also:Science, or the See also:State Theoretically and Practically Considered (1877), and See also:Communism and See also:Socialism, in theirHistory and Theory (188o). His son, THEODORE SALISBTJRY WOOLSEY (b. 1852), became professor of international law at Yale in 1878. He was one of the founders of the Yale Review (1892, a continuation of the New Englander), and is the author of See also:America's See also:Foreign Policy (1892).

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