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him as "the greatest living American teacher of 

 law." He gave a course of lectures each year at 

 Cornell; was a member of the N. Y. Constitutional 

 Convention in 1867; was a member of the famous 

 committee of seventy in N. Y. City that exposed the 

 Tweed ring ; was president of the New York Prison 

 Association and presided when Mr. Dixgdale was 

 employed to study the Jukes ; associate editor 

 "American Law Register;" was legal editor of 

 "Johnson's Encyclopaedia," and made many impor- 

 tant contributions to the legal literature of the 

 country. There have been few men of equal emi- 

 nence in our country's history. 



President Theodore Dwight Woolsey, D.D., LL.D., 

 b. New York City, October 31, 1801, was the grand- 

 son of Mary Edwards Dwight and great grandson 

 of Jonathan Edwards; g. Yale 1820; studied at 

 Princeton Theological Seminary and g. at Yale L. 

 S. ; studied in German universities ; professor in Yale 

 twenty-two years; president of Yale 1846-1871. 

 Wesleyan conferred degree of LL.D. and Harvard 

 that of LL.D. and S.T.D. all before he was fifty 

 years of age. President of the Evangelical Alliance 

 held in N. Y. City 1873, the leading American on 

 the Committee for the Revision of the Bible. After 

 resigning the presidency he continued to lecture at 

 Yale until his death, 1889. There was no more 

 eminent American in unofficial life from 1840 to 

 1890 than he. President Hayes once said that he 

 was greatly perplexed at one time as to the line of 

 public policy which he should pursue until it 



