WAY'LAND, FRANCIS (1796.1865). An American educator. born in New York City. He graduated at Union College in 1813, studied medicine for three years. and in 1816 entered Andover Theological Seminary. Before grad uating he left to become a tutor at Union Col lege, where he remained form• years. In 1821 he accepted a call to the pulpit of the First Baptist Church in Boston, where he became known as a preacher of great ability and energy. After a year's professorship at Union College in 1826 27 he left in February of the latter year to ac cept the presidency of Brown University at Prov idence. The twenty-eight years (1827-T855) dur ing which he remained at the head of this in stitution saw its rapid development and change from a narrow sectarian college to a modern cob lege on more liberal lines. These reforms marked Dr. Wayland, although a conservative in most matters, as a leader in educational reform. He himself delivered lectures in psychology, political economy, and ethics. Retiring from the presi dency of the university in 1855, he served for some time as pastor of the First Baptist Church, Providence. and devoted himself to prison re
form and other movements of a similar nature. His published works include, in addition to nu merou4 individual sermons and addresses: Occa sional Discourscs (1833) ; Elements of Moral Sok,lea (1835), which has run through a large number of editions and revisions and has been translated into several foreign languages; Ele ments of Political Economy (1837); Moral Laws of „Accumulation (1837) : The Limitations of Human Responsibility (1838) ; The Present Col legiate System in the United States (1R-12): Do mestic ,s'Incery considered as a Scriptural In stitution ( I8451; Sermons Delivered in the of Brown University (1849); Memoirs of Hal rig t Ware (1850): Memoirs of Adonirem Judson (2 Vols., IS53) : Elements of Intellectual Philosophu (1854) ; Notes on the Principles mid of the Baptist Churches (1857). Con sult also his Life and Labors, by his sons, Fran cis and Henry L. Wayland (New York, 1867). See P.RoWN UNIVERSITY.