tion. Once numbered among his pupils | degree of LL.D. from Middlebury College, in college-life, we were desirous of pre- and in 1818 the degree of D.D. from Union serving and perpetuating these portrait College, and the latter also from Harvard lineaments, as a tribute of regard, where College in 1831. He continued in the time's hand could not reach or mar them, presidency of Yale College till 1846, when, and in a form where many friends could on account of feeble health, he resigned; share in their cherished remembrance. It and though that venerable institution has may be enough to say that the portrait is been deemed peculiarly fortunate in its the combined result of three ambrotypes, presidents, it may with truth be said that carefully taken at New-Haven, late in Au- it has at no time been more prosperous gust, 1860, under the personal direction than under the presidency of Dr. Day. of Mr. John Sartain, whose artistic talent His learning and talent, united to great and gifted burin has thus lined and stip- kindness of heart, soundness of judgment, pled these life-like lineaments in steel in- and urbanity of manner, secured alike the dentations. respect and love of his thousands of pupils, all of whom looked upon him more as a father and friend than as a mere teacher and guide in the ways of knowledge. Dr. Day has always been distinguished as a mathematician, and as a close and vigorous thinker on all subjects to which he turned his attention. His well-known Algebra, first published in 1814, has passed through numerous editions; and a new and much improved and extended edition of it was issued in 1852, by the joint labors of himself and Prof. Stanley. His work on the Mensuration of Superficies and Solids was published in 1814, his Plane Trigonometry in 1815, and his Navigation and Surveying in 1817. These works, like his Algebra, have gone through numerous editions, and are adopted extensively as standard works in the colleges and seminaries of the land. In 1838 Dr. Day published an Inquiry on the SelfDetermining Power of the Will or Con tingent Volition, and a second edition of the same in 1849. In 1841 he published an Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry as to the Freedom of the Will. He has also published a number of occasional sermons, and contributed papers to the Journal of Science, the New-Englander, etc. He still lives in New-Haven, in the possession of all his faculties, and the enjoyment of a ripe old age, respected and esteemed by the entire community, as well as by thousands in every part of the land whom he has aided in training for respectability and usefulness.

In connection with the portrait we record the following brief biographical sketch. The Rev. Jeremiah Day, late President of Yale College, was born in New-Preston, Conn., August 3, 1773; entered Yale College in 1789; on account of infirm health was not able to go on with the class to which he at first belonged; but after an absence of several years resumed his college studies, and was graduated with high honor in 1795. This was the year of Dr. Dwight's accession to the presidency of the College, on whose removal from Greenfield Mr. Day was invited to take charge of the school in that village, which had flourished so greatly under the care of the former. This invitation he accepted, and continued there for a year, when he was elected a tutor in Williams College, where he remained till he was chosen tutor in Yale College in 1798. Having early made choice of the profession of theology, while acting as tutor he began to preach as a candidate for the ministry; but before taking charge of any parish, he was, in 1801, elected to the professorship of mathematics and natural philosophy in Yale College. His health, however, still being feeble, he was not able to enter on its duties till 1803; but after that continued in them till 1817, when, on the death of Dr. Dwight, he was elected his successor in the presidency. In July of the same year he was formally inaugurated, and on the same day was ordained as a minister of the Gospel. In 1817 he received the

REV. THEODORE DWIGHT WOOLSEY, D.D.

President Woolsey was born in the city of New-York, October 31st, 1801. His ancestors on the father's side came from Yarmouth, in England, and settled on Long Island, about the year 1640. He was the youngest but one of seven children, of William Walton Woolsey, a leading merchant of New-York, and of Elizabeth, sister of President Dwight of Yale College.

A HISTORIC sketch of the leading inci- | he remained a little over three years, dedents in the lives of eminent men, how-voting his time to study, and principally ever brief, who have acted well their part to the study of Greek, first at Paris, then on the great theater of life is always in- for a year and a half in Germany, at Leip teresting and instructive. There is a zig, Bonn, and Berlin; after which he portraiture of mind and character, as visited England and Italy. In 1831, he well as portraits of the faces of men was elected to fill the Professorship of whose lineaments are attractive or re- Greek, newly established at Yale College, pulsive. When both are inviting, the in which office he continued until the auinterest is enhanced. We believe this is tumn of 1846. During that time he pubespecially true of the eminent man whose lished between the years 1833 and 1837, name stands at the head of this too brief editions of the Alcestis of Euripides, the notice, and whose portrait fills the central Prometheus of Eschylus, and the Antiposition on the plate, with graceful digni- gone and Electra of Sophocles; and also, ty of aspect, even as he presides with in 1842, of the Gorgias of Plato, all of great wisdom and usefulness over the in- which have passed through several editerests of one of the most important in- tions, and have been extensively used in stitutions of learning in our land. the colleges of the United States. In 1845, on account of the ill-health of his wife, he again visited Europe, extending his tour as far as to Greece. During his absence, President Day signified his intention to resign the office which he had filled since 1817; and Professor Woolsey was named pretty generally by the voice. of the graduates, and subsequently chosen by the Fellows or Trustees of the College, to the Presidency of Yale. He was inaugurated October 21st, 1846, and at the same time received ordination. Since that time, besides the general superintendence of the College, he has given instruction to the senior class in history, political science, and international law. A volume from his hand on this latter science, entitled an Introduction to International Law, designed especially as a help in Instruction and in Historical Studies, was published at Boston in the summer of the present year. He has also written quite a number of articles, chiefly of the historical kind, for the New-Englander and for other periodicals. Under his wise and effective administration of the government of the College, a steady and onward progress is manifest in the prosperity and usefulness of this venerated seat of learning.

He fitted for college at the grammarschools of Hartford and New-Haven, and entered Yale in 1816. At the graduation of his class in 1820, he had the honor conferred upon him of delivering the valedictory address. The next year he read law at Philadelphia, in the office of the late Charles Chauncey, with no intention of entering the profession, but for the sake of mental improvement merely. In 1821, he joined the theological seminary at Princeton, where he remained nearly two years; and then spent as many more in New-Haven, in the office of Tutor at Yale College. In the autumn of 1825, he was licensed to preach; after which he devoted himself for two years, at his father's residence in New-York, to theological studies, and especially to the study of the Scriptures in the original tongues. In May, 1827, he sailed for Europe, where