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Logic (1867); The Art of Discourse (1867); The Art of Composition (1867); The American Speller (1867); Introduction to the Study of English Liter- ature (1867); The Young Composer (1870); Logical Praxis (1872); The Science of Esthetics (1872); The Elements of Psychology (1876); The Science of Ethics (1876); Outlines of Ontological Science, or a Philosophy of Knoioledffe and Being (1878); The Sci- ence of Thought (1886); The Elements of Mental Science (1SS6); The Science of Education (1889). He died in New Haven, Conn., Jan. 13, 1890.

DAY, James Roscoe, educator, was born in Whitney ville, Maine, Oct. 17, 1845; son of Thomas and Mary (Plunimer) Day; and grandson of Stephen Day and of the Rev. Samuel Hillman. He was educated at the Maine Wesleyan seminary and Bowdoin college. He joined the Maine confer- ence of the Methodist Episcopal church and was pastor at Portland, Maine, three years, at Boston, Mass., two years, and at New York city, eight years. He was a trustee of the Maine Wesleyan seminary and of Boston university. In 1893 lie was elected cliancellor of Syracuse university. He received the degree of D.D. from both Dick- inson college and Wesleyan university in 1883; that of S.T D. from Bowdoin college in 1894, and that of LL.D. from Northwestern university, in 1898.

DAY, Jeremiah, educator, was born in New Preston, Conn., Aug. 3, 1773; son of the Rev. Jeremiah Day; grandson of Thomas Day, and a descendant of Robert Day who came to America in 1634 and was one of the first settlers of Hart- ford, Conn. His father (born Jan. 26, 1738) was graduated at Yale in 1756; studied theol- ogy first under the Rev. Joseph Bellamy, and later in life under the Rev. Cotton Mather Smith; was pastor at New Pres- ton, Conn., and one of the early mission- aries from Connect- icut to the new settle- ments, 1788; and died Sept. 12, 1806. The son was graduated at Yale with honors in 1795; was head master of the Greenfield school, 1796; tutor at Williams, 1796-98; tutor at Yale, 1798-1801; professor of mathematics and natui-al philosophy at Yale, 1801-20; and president of that institution, 1817-46. He was ordained to the ministry, July 23, 1817. He was a fellow of Yale college, 1846-67, and a fello%v of the Ameri- can academy of arts and sciences. He received the degree of M.A. from Yale and from Williams

in 1798; that of LL.D. from Middlebury in 1818, and that of D.D. from Union in 1818, and from Harvard in 1831. He published an Algebra (1814) which passed through many editions and was revised by himself in collaboration with Profes- sor Stanley in 1852. He also published: Jlen- suration of Superficies and Solids (1814); An Examination of President Edward's Inquiry as to the Freedom of the Will (1814); Plane Trigonometry (1815); Navigation and Surveying (1817); and An Inquiry on the Self-determining Pouter of the Will, or Contingent T'oZrtiou (1838-1849). He died in New Haven, Conn., Aug. 22, 1867.

DAY, Luther, jurist, was born in Washington county, N.Y.,July 9, 1813; son of David and Rhoda (Wheelock) Day; grandson of Noah and Alice (Whiting) Day, and of Amriah and Hanna (Warren) Wheelock; and a descendant of An thony Day who landed at Gloucester in 1650. Both his grandfathers were Revolutionary sol- diers, and his maternal grandmother was a kinswoman to Doctor Warren who fell at Bimker Hill Luther studied law under Rufus Paine Spaulding at Ravenna, Ohio, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1838, practising at Ravenna. He was prosecuting attorney for Portage county, Ohio, 1843-51; judge of the court of common pleas, 1851-57; state senator, 1864-65; justice of the supreme court of Ohio, 1865-75, and for four years chief justice; commissioner to codifj- the state statutes, 1875-76; and supreme court com- missioner, 1876-79. He was married to Emily, daughter of Judge Rufus Paine Spaulding, and had two children: William Rufus Day, who be- came secretary of state in President McKinley's cabinet, and Emily Swift Day After the death of his first wife Judge Day was married in 1854 to Ellen I. Barnes, and had four children: Charles, David, Robert, and Anna. Judge Day received the degree of LL.D. from Mount Union college, Ohio, in 1868. He died in Ravenna, Ohio, March 8, 1885.

DAY, Thomas, jurist, was born in New Preston, Conn., July 6, 1777; son of the Rev. Jeremiah Day (1738-1806). He was a younger brother of the Rev. Jeremiah Day, LL.D., presi- dent of Yale college. He was graduated at Yale in 1797 and studied law in Litchfield, Conn. He was a tutor at Williams college, 1798-99; was ad- mitted to the bar in 1799, and practised in Hart- ford. He was appointed assistant secretary of state of Connecticut in 1809, and was secretary of state 1810-35. He was associate judge of the Hartford county court, 1815-25, one year excepted, and chief judge, 1825-33. He was also judge of the city court of Hartford, 1818-31, and reporter of the decisions of the court of error, 1805-53. He edited various English law works, and was a charter member of the Connecticut historical