MARY EDWARDS D WIGHT FAMILY 81 



degree of D.D., and both Harvard and Princeton 

 that of LL.D. He was editor of "The New Eng- 

 lander." It is a singular fact that the three great 

 advances which Yale has made have been in the 

 times of the two D wights and of Woolsey, all 

 descendants of Jonathan Edwards. By the end of 

 his third year the number of students had risen to 

 1365 and the sixth year to 1784. The gifts to 

 Yale in each of the fifteen years of his administra- 

 tion were fabulous as compared with any past 

 experiences, often above $350,000. 



President Sereno Edwards Dwight, D.D., g. Yale 

 1803, practiced law in New Haven; author of 

 important books which were republished in Eng- 

 land; became a clergyman at the age of twenty- 

 nine ; pastor of Park St. Church, Boston ; was chap- 

 lain of the tJ. S. Senate; established successful 

 boarding school in New Haven. Among his stu- 

 dents were the two boys who afterwards made the 

 famous Andrews & Stoddard's Latin Grammar. 

 His literary work was extensive and valuable. 

 Standing by himself he would shed lustre upon the 

 names he bore, Edwards and Dwight. He was a 

 tutor in Yale and was third president of Hamilton 

 College. 



William Theodore Dwight, D.D., b. 1795, g. Yale 

 1813, tutor at Yale, practiced law in Philadelphia; 

 became a clergyman; pastor in Portland; overseer 

 of Bowdoin College. He was offered three profes- 

 sorships, which he declined. He was one of the 

 religious leaders of America for many years. 



