DWIGHT, Timothy, American clergyman and educator: b. Norwich, Conn., 16 Nov. 1828; d. New Haven, Conn., 26 May 1916. He was graduated at Yale in 1849. He stayed at Yale as tutor, studied in the theological school and was graduated there in 1853. In 1855 he was licensed to preach as a Congregationalist, but was not ordained until 1861. After studying at Berlin and Bonn he returned to Yale in 1858 as assistant professor of sacred literature and New Testament Greek in the theological seminary. Three years later, at the age of 33, he became a full professor, a position he held until his elec tion to the presidency. Although a famous scholar his early tastes were not entirely aca demic. A Yale cartoon of the days when he was teaching theology pictures him studying a shot over a billiard table and saying "0, carom me back to the days of youth.° He suc ceeded Noah Porter as president of Yale Uni versity in 1886 and was succeeded by Arthur T. Hadley in 1899. He resigned in keeping with his belief that a president should not serve after reaching the age of 70 years. After he resigned he lived in retirement, spending his winters in New Haven and his summers in Litchfield. He assumed direction of Yale Uni versity at a time when its needs were manifold, especially as regards financial support. His great task was the securing of money for build ings and for additions to the faculty. In a particularly perplexing period he turned his own salary back into the treasury, supplied the college pulpit himself and was treasurer as well as president. In response to his efforts
Yale entered an epoch of unparalleled expan sion. In the 13 years of his administration the permanent funds were increased from $2,111,189 to $4,554,827 — a greater increase than in all the 185 years since Yale College was founded. President Dwight's personal contributions amounted to about $100,000. At his request the Connecticut legislature in 1:•:7 legalized the title "Yale University.° Dr. Dwight then welded the college and the professional schools into a coherent whole. His greatest work outside the campus was done when he was a member of the American committee for the revision of the Bible, from 1878 to 1885. From 1866 to 1874 he was associate editor of the New Englander. In 1870-71 he published a series of articles on (The True Ideal of an American University.) He edited several volumes of the American edition of Meyer's on the New Testament); translated Godet's on the Gospel of Saint John); published Of and For the Inner Life) (1889) ; and (Memories of Yale Life and Yale Men' (1903). He received the degree of doctor of divinity from Yale and the University of Chi cago and the LL.D. degree from Harvard and Princeton.