DWIGHT 



that he became leader of a cavalry regiment. 

 When only eighteen inches in height he fought 

 a duel with a man who had insulted him, and 

 shot him dead. 



In modern times dwarfs are in demand as 

 exhibits. The public is apparently easily at- 

 tracted by the abnormal, and giants, dwarfs 

 and deformed persons arouse a good deal of 

 morbid curiosity. The most famous dwarf of 

 recent times was known as General Tom 

 Thumb, so called after his prototype, who was 

 supposed to have been a celebrity at the 

 Round Table of King Arthur. There still 

 exist in Central Africa several races of dwarfs 

 perfectly formed, graceful in movement and 

 intelligent. One who is a dwarf need not be 

 mentally deficient. Among white races the 

 dwarf is usually small because of bodily de- 

 formity. 



DWIGHT, TIMOTHY (1752-1817), an Amer- 

 ican theologian and one of the ablest of the 

 presidents of Yale College, was bora in North- 

 ampton, Mass. His father was a merchant, 

 and his mother was the daughter of the re- 

 nowned Jonathan Edwards. He was gradu- 

 ated at Yale. During the Revolutionary War 

 he was chaplain in the American army; at 

 the close of the war he became principal and 

 pastor of a boy's school in Greenfield, Conn., 

 and in 1795 was chosen president of Yale Col- 

 lege, remaining in that position until his death. 

 His accession to the presidency of Yale 

 marked a new era in the history of that insti- 

 tution, as at that time there were only about 

 100 students, one professor and three tutors, 

 but he established permanent professorships 

 and anticipated the growth of the college by 

 purchasing additional ground. He also planned 

 for the organization of professional schools 

 with special faculties, but only the medical 

 school had been established at the time of his 

 death. His published writings total seven 

 volumes, and consist chiefly of sermons and 

 theological essays. 



Timothy Dwight (1828- ), a grandson of 

 Timothy Dwight, a noted Greek and Biblical 

 scholar, was born in Norwich, Conn. He was 

 educated at Yale College and in Germany at 

 Bonn and Berlin universities. From 1858 to 

 1886 he was professor of sacred literature and 

 Greek at Yale, becoming president of the uni- 

 versity in the latter year. At the time of his 

 retirement as president in 1899 the student 

 body numbered 2,500. Among his published 

 works are Memories of Yale Life and Men and 

 Thoughts 0} the Inner Life. He also anno- 



1891 



DYAKS 



tated several Biblical commentaries and was 

 a frequent contributor to periodicals. 



DYAKS, di'aks, a race of brown people in- 

 habiting the seacoast and parts of the interior 

 of the island of Borneo. They are of greater 

 stature than the Malays, though considerably 

 shorter than the average white man. Their 



A DYAK WOMAN 



The clothing for the entire family is made by 

 the women in the above laborious manner. The 

 metal corselet has been a feature of female dress 

 since before white men knew of the Dyaks' exist- 

 ence. 



hair is long and straight, and is tied in a knot 

 at the back of the head. Blackened teeth are 

 considered a mark of beauty. Their mouths 

 are generally ill-shaped and disfigured by ex- 

 cessive chewing of betel nut, a habit indulged 

 in by both men and women (see BETEL, subhead 

 Betel Chewing). A whole village, consisting of 

 twenty to thirty families, lives together under 

 one roof. This village house is built on piles 

 of wood from six to twelve feet above the 

 ground. Rice cultivation, cloth and mat 

 weaving and boat building are the principal in- 

 dustries. Each family farms its own land. 



Head-hunting, or killing human beings and 

 securing their heads as trophies, was long 

 practiced among all the Dyaks, but has been 

 suppressed to a great extent where European 

 influence obtains. In the old days no Dyak 

 chief could be married unless he had been suc- 

 cessful in procuring the head of an enemy. For 

 this reason it was usual to make an expedition 

 into an enemy's country before the marriage- 

 feast of any great chief could be held. The 

 head brought home need not be that of a 

 man; a woman's or a child's would serve the 

 purpose quite as well. 



