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occured to him that President Woolsey was the 

 one American on whose judgment he could rely, and 

 after consulting him his course was entirely clear 

 and his action wise. He was the author of several 

 valuable and standard works. Yale's first great 

 advance was in the time of President Timothy 

 D wight, its second was in the administration of 

 President Theodore Dwight Woolsey. When he 

 became president the classes about doubled in size. 

 He introduced new departments at once and en- 

 dowments came in, such as had never been con- 

 sidered possible. The tuition was raised from $33 

 to $90 ; the salaries were greatly increased, gradu- 

 ate courses were introduced; many new build- 

 ings were erected and everything went forward 

 at a radically different pace. Yale and American 

 thought owe much to President Woolsey. He 

 wrote many scholarly works. 



There were thirteen children born to President 

 Woolsey. Of these, one daughter married Rev. 

 Edgar Laing Heermance, a graduate of Yale and a 

 useful and talented man; one of the sons, Theo- 

 dore Salisbury, was a graduate of Yale, and pro- 

 fessor of International Law at Yale. 



President Timothy Dwight, D.D., LL.D., b. 1828, 

 g. Yale 1849, g. Yale Theological School, studied at 

 Bonn and Berlin in Germany ; was professor at Yale 

 and president from 1886 to 1897. He has been an 

 eminent American scholar for half a century. If 

 there were but two or three such men in a family 

 it would make it memorable. Yale gave him the 



