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* DWIGHT. 557 DYAK. grandson of Jonatliiin Kdwards. He was a dis- tinguished lawyer and a leader of the Federalist I'arty: was a member of Congress in 180G-07 ; and was secretary of the famous Hartford Con- vention in 1814. His talent as a writer made him a brilliant editor iu (urn of the Hartford .Minor, the Albany DiiUy Advertiser, and the Xew York Daily Adrcrliscr, which he founded in 1817. Among his publications are: Life and Character of Thomas Jefferson (183'J); and a Historii of the Hartford Convention (1833). DWIGHT, Theodore (1790-1806). An American author. He was born in Hartford, Conn., the sou of Theodore Dwight (17U1-184G) : graduated at Yale in 1814, and devoted himself to editorial work on various papers and maga- zines, besides taking an active interest in the work of Sunday-schools. Among his publications arc: 7'oHr in Italy (1821); first Lessons in Modern Greek (1833) ; The Itoman liepuhlie of IS',9 (1851); History of Conneetieut (1841); and The Kansas IT'ar; or, the Exploits of Chiv- alry in the yineteenth Century (1859). DWIGHT, Theodore Williaji (1822-92). An American jurist. He was bom in New Y'ork; graduated at Hamilton College ; and afterwards studied law at Yale, and was professor of law in Hamilton College, where he established a school of law. From 1858 to 1891 he was pro- fessor of law in Columbia College. He pub- lished several works on legal subjects, among which are: Trial hy Impeachment (18G7); and Argument in the Rose Will and Charity Cases (1863); besides papers in the American Law Register, of which he was assistant editor. In 1868 he became non-resident professor of con- stitutional law in Cornell University, and in 1869 lecturer in Amherst College. He was a member of the Xew Y'ork State Constitutional Convention in 1867: was president of the New Y'ork Prison Association ; and was an active member of the well-known 'Committee of Sev- enty' of New Y'ork City. He edited Elaine's Ancient Laic (New Y'ork, 1864). DWIGHT, TiiiOTiiy (17521817). An Ameri- can clergjinan and educator. He was born at Northampton, Mass., graduated at Y'ale Col- lege in 1769, was a chaplain in the army during the Revolutionary War, pastor and prin- cipal of a well-knofl-n boys' school at Greenfield, Conn., from 1782 to 1795. In the latter year he was chosen president of Y'ale College, and filled the position till his death, .January 11, 1817. His most important publication is his Travels in A'cic England and Xeio York (1821). Consult his memoir by his .son, Sereno E. Dwight, in the lattcr's edition of his Thcoloqy Explained and Defended (New York, 1840). DWIGHT, TiMOTHT (1828—). An American clergjTiian and educator, born at Norwich. Conn. He graduated at Y'ale in 1849, studied at the Yale Divinity School, and in 1850-58 at Bonn and Berlin; in 1858 Avas appointed professor of sacred literature in the Divinity School, and in 1861 was ordained to the ministry- of the Con- gregational Church. In 1886 he was elected president of Y'alc. He resigned this olTice in 1899. During his administration, Yale took the title of University and as^sumed proper status as sueh. He was particularly successful in obtaining the numerous gifts and endowments necessary to an increase in equipment. In 1878- 85 he was a member of the American Commit- tee for the Revision of the Knglish Bible. From 1866 to 1874 he was an editor of the New Englander (later changed to the Sew Enylander and Yale Ueciew, and in 1892 to the Yale Review), in which he jmblished, in 1870-71, an important series of articles on 'The True Ideal of an. ierican University." His writings further include annotations to the Eng- lish translation of the volumes Romans, Philip- pians-Philemon, Timotlij-Hebrews, and James- Jude in H. A. V. Meyer's Kriiisch-exegetisclier Kommentar ziim neuen Testament (16 vols., G6t- tingen, 1832 et seq.) ; a translation and edition, with notes, of F. Godet's Commentaire sur I'evangile de Saint Jean (Paris, 1864-65) ; an Address Delivered at the Funeral of President Porter (1892); and a Commemorative Address in honor of W. D. Whitney and J. D. Dana (1895). DWIGHT, William Buck (1833—). An American geologist and naturalist, born in Con- stantinople, the son of Harri.son Gray Otis Dwight, the American missionary (q.v.). He came to this country in 1849, and graduated at Yale (18.54), Union Theological Seminary (1857), and the Y'ale Scientiac School (1859). After two years (1805-07), spent in examining West Virginia mines, he entered educational work. He was principal of the officers' family school at West Point from 1867 to 1870, and in 1894 was appointed one of the two university examiners for New York State. In 1878 he was r.ppointed professor of natural histor}- and cura- tor of the museum at Vassar College. His most important w'ork as a geologist includes investiga- tion of the Cambrian and Ordovician strati- graphy and paleontology', and an exploration of Dutchess County, N. Y., and the limestone dis- trict of the Wappinger Valley. He became a fre- quent contributor to geological papers, but the results of much of his more important paleonto- logical researches are still unpublished. Pi-ofessor Dwight was editor of tlie department of geol- ogy in the Standard Dictionary. He invented the 'petrotome.' a machine for cutting thin sec- tions of minerals and fossils. DY'AK, or DAYAK. A general name ap- plied by the ilalay invaders to the peoples in- habiting the interior and a considerable portion of the coast of the great island of Borneo, who seem to be its aborigines. Physically and lin- guistically they all belong to the Malayan race, but there are numerous variations from the char- acteristic type. Dyak culture runs all the way from the savagery of the nunintainous interior to the civilization of the coast, where, under Javanese, Bugi, and Chinese influences, the artistic and industrial abilities possessed more or less by all the tribes are seen to better advan- tage, and many States and Sultanates have from time to time flourished. The Dyaks have taken to Islam less kindly than their kindred, the ]l.alays proper, and some of the uncivilized tribes of the interior prol)ably preserve traits of origi- nal Malayan heathenism, elsewhere lost. Intel- Icdually. morally, and socially the Dyak at his best is perhaps superior to the typical Malay, as he also exceeds him in stature and often in good looks. The Dyaks are also less restrained and more given to physical exercise than the Malays proper. The paddle, the spear, the blow-gun.