MACLE, malcl, in mineralogy, a variety of andalusite, occurring in long, tapering crystals in clay-slate. They have the axes and angles of a different color from the rest of the crystals, owing to a regular arrangement of impurities in the interior.
MacLEAN; mak-lan', George Edwin, American educator: b. Rockville, Conn., 31 Aug. 1850. He was graduated at Williams College in 1871 and at Yale Theological Semi nary in 1874; from 1877 to 1:•:1 was pastor at Troy, N. Y.; studied in Germany; and in 1883 became professor of English language and literature at the University of Minnesota. He was chancellor of the University of Nebraska, 1895-99, and from 1899 to 1911 was president of the University of Iowa. In 1913 he was sent by the United States Bureau of Education to make a study of the English universities and colleges. His writings include 'A Chart of English Literature' (1892); 'Old and Middle English Reader' (1893); and 'A Decade of Development in American State Universities' (1898); 'Present Standards of Higher Edu cation in the United States' (1913) ; 'Studies in Higher Education in England and Scotland, with Suggestions for Universities and Colleges in the United States' (1916). He has edited '/Elfric's Anglo-Saxon Version of Alcuini Interrogationes Sigewulfi Presbyteri in Gene sin' (1883) ; 'An Introductory Course in Old English,' by Wilkin and Babcock (1888) ; and 'An Old and Middle English Reader,' by Zupitza (1889).
McLEAN, George Payne, American law yer and politician: b. Simsbury, Conn., 7 Oct. 1857. He was for a time a reporter on the Hartford Evening Post, then studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1881, and immedi ately commenced practice in Hartford. In 1883-84 he was a member of the general as sembly, where he soon became distinguished for facility in debate and was considered one of the leaders of the Republican party. In he was elected State senator and in 1900 nomi nated by his party as governor of Connecticut and elected. Though he was not widely known at the time of his election, his independent posi tion in regard to constitutional reform soon made him prominent; both in his first gov ernor's message and before the constitutional convention, he advocated representation in the legislature according to population instead of by towns. Though in this he opposed certain elements in his own party, he gained support from a considerable number of Democrats and great personal popularity in the cities. In 1902 he was offered renomination, but declined; in 1903-04 he was a proininent candidate for United States senator. He was elected to the
United States Senate in January 1911 and took office on 4 March following. He is the author of what is known as the "Federal Migratory Bird which became a law on 4 March 1913.
MacLEAN, James Alexander, Canadian educator: b. Mayfair, Ontario, 2 Aug. 1868. He was graduated at the University of Toronto in 1892 and took his A.M. at Columbia in 1893. He was professor of political science at the University of Colorado in 1894-1900; presi dent of the University of Idaho in 1900-13; and since 1913 he has been president of the University of Manitoba. Canada. Author of essays in 'The Financial History of (1894).
MacLEAN, John, American jurist and statesman: b. Morris County, N. J., 11 March 1785; d. 4 April 1861. He removed with his parents to Warren County, Ohio, in 1799, later went to Cincinnati, where he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1807, and commenced practice at Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio. He was a member of Congress 1812-16, and from 1816-22 judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio. In July 1823 he was appointed Postmaster General, the Post-office Department being then in a very disordered and inefficient condition. Under his administration this branch of the public service was restored to order, and man aged with a vigor, method and economy that soon secured an almost unexampled degree of applause and public confidence. In 1829 he became associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. In this capacity his charges to grand juries while on circuit are distinguished for ability and eloquence. In the Dred Scott case he dissented from the decision of the court as given by Chief Justice Taney, and expressed the opinion that slavery has its origin merely in power, and is against right and in this country is sustained only by local law.
McLEAN, John, American educator: b. Princeton, N. J., 1800; d. there, 1886. His whole life was spent in Princeton. He was graduated from the college there in 1816, be came tutor in the institution in 1818 and was a member of the faculty till 1868, when he re signed the presidency, which he had held from 1854. He published 'Lecture on a Common School System for New Jersey) (1829), which in later years had much influence in the estab lishment of such a system ; 'History of the College of New Jersey (1877), and 'The True Relations of the Church and the State to Schools and Colleges) (1853).