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* DENVER. 1.^7 DEPARTURE. All its degrees, now agprogating 877, have been conferred since IS82. The university comprises seven colleses and a preparatory school. The seven colleges are: The College of l.ilieral Arts, the Graduate School, the llilT School of Theologj', the Denver and Gross College of iledicine, the Denver Law School, the Colorado College of Den- tal Surgery, and the College of JIusic. The uni- versity owns and oecupies twelve buildings, which were erected at a cost of .'f^yO.OOO. Three of these buildings are in the heart of Denver, namely, the Music Huilding, the Haish Building, which is the htiue of the professional scliools, and the Medical Laboratory Building. The other nine buildings are at L'niversity Park, a suburb of Denver. Among these buildings at University Park the most notable are: University Hall, the IliflF Theological Hall, and the Cham'berlin Ob- servatory, gift of Humphrey B. Chamberlin. The Chamberlin Observatory is a conspicuous astronomical station, and contains a 20inch telescope by Alvan Clark & Sons. The student enrollment for. 1902 was 11G7, divided as fol- lows: In the colleges, 501 ; in the ilusic College, 561 : in the preparatory school, 105. For 1962, 133 professors and instructors were in service. For 1903, 172 professors and instructors are en- gaged. All the properties and endowments amount to more than $700,000. DENZINGER, den'tslng-er, Fr.xz Joseph (1821-94). A German architect. He was born at Li6ge, Belgium, where his father was profes- sor at the university. He .studied at Wiirzburg. then in JIunich at the Polytechnic Institute and under Gartner at the Academy of Arts. In 1851 he entered the Government service at Regensburg, and in 1859 was appointed architect of the cathe- dral, the restoration and completion of which he carried out in the most successful manner. His next important work was the reconstruction of the cathedral at Frankfort-on-the-Main, which had been destroyed by fire in 1867. Here he also erected the building of the municipal archives and the Dreikiiningskirche. Among his other strtic- turcs may be mentioned the chemical laboratory of the university at Erlangen and the saline bathing establishment at Kissingen. He died in Nuremberg. DE'ODAND (ML. deodandum, to be given to God, from Dro, to God + dandum. to be given). In English law, a term applied to any chattel which was directly instrumental in causing the death of a human being, either by accidetit or by homicide. Where a person was thus killed a jury was summoned, and. if any domestic animal or in- animate thing was found to be the immediate cause of his death, it was forfeited to the Crown, usually for pious or charitable uses — 'to appease God's wrath,' as some of the early writers put it. Thus, if a horse and cart ran over a person and killed him. they were forfeited as accursed things, irrespective of whether they belonged to the deceased or to some other person who was not otherwise connected with the accident. The right or franchise txi have all deodands in a certain district was sometimes granted to individuals by the Crown. This curious law", which has its analogies in many primitive legal systems, was not finally abolished in Great Britain until the year 1840 by statute (9 and 10 Vict., c. 02). It was never recognized in the L'nitcd States. Con- sult: Blaekstone, Commentaries on the Laws of F.ngland; Stephen, Hinlonj of the Criminal Law of England (London, 1883). DEODAR'. Sec Cedar. DEODORIZER ( from Lat. de, from, away + odor, smell, scent). Any chemical substance employed for the purpose of absorbing or de- stroving the odoriferous principles evolved espe- cially from decomposing animal and vegetal)]e matter. They strictly belong to the classes of substances known as antiseptics (q.v.) and disin- fectants ( q.v. ) . DE OFFICIIS, de of-fish'i-is (Lat., On Duties). A treatise on morals by Cicero, ad- dressed directly to his son Marcus. The work is in three books, but is doubtless incomplete. D'EON DE BEAUMONT, daO.x' de bo'moN'. See Eo.x de Ueaijioxt. DEOPRAYAG, da'opra-yag'.orDEVAPRA- YAGA, .lri'a-]>ia yii'g:! (Skt.. altar of the gods). A village of the native State of Garhwal, India, remarkable chiefly for its situation at the fork of the Alaknanda and the Bhagirathi, who.se united waters immediately assume the name of Ganges (Map: India, C" 2). JIarking. as it were, the source of the sacred river, Deopraj'ag is a favorite place of pilgrimage for the Hindus. There are an ancient temple, a flight of steps in the rock down to the brink of the mingled streams, and three basins excavated in the solid stone a little below the level of the surface of the current. The permanent population, about 1000, consists chiefly of Brahmins. DE O'RATO'RE (Lat., On the Orator). A dialogue in three books by Cicero (B.C. 55), treat- ing of the studies necessary for an orator, the matter, and the form and delivery of a speech. The principal speakers are the great orator.s Lucius Crassus and Marcus Antonius. The treatise is a masterpiece, showing Cicero's best style in a subject with which he was intimately familiar. DEPARTMENT (Fr. d/partement, from Lat. disjiartirc. to divide). An administrative divi- sion in France. The old provincial divisions were abolished by the Constituent Assembly in 1790. and the country was divided into 83 de- partments. This was done at the instance of Mirabeau. who pointed out the necessity of wip- ing out the ancient territorial boundaries in order to concentrate power in the hands of tha Central Goveri'ment. and to destroy the influence of the aristocracy, which, based upon ancient custom, was still strong in the provinces. In the redistribution, care was taken to efface as far as possible ancient political divisions; and in a large number of instances a department was con- stituted out of territory taken from two or more provinces. !Most of the departments were named after rivers or moimtains. The number of dcpart- uKiits at present is 87. At the head of each is a prefect, appointed by the President of the Uepub- lic. and assisted by a coiisfH de prefecture. The departmenis arc subdivided into arrondissements. DEPARTURE. Tn nautical language, a dis- tance along a parallel of latitude measured in nautical miles: especially the distance east or west made by a ship. When the course is neither east nor west the departure = distance sailed X Sine of course. Since minutes of longitude are in length proportional to the cosine of the lati- tude in which they are measui'cd, we have dcpar-