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Collier (WILLIAM MILLER an American)

WILLIAM MILLER, an American educator and diplomat; born in Lodi, N. Y., in 1867. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1889 and studied at the Columbia Law School in 1889-1890. He was admitted to the bar in 1892. After practicing for several years in New York City he was ap pointed a member of the State Civil Service Commission, serving as president of that body from 1901 to 1903. He was lecturer on the law of bankruptcy at the New York Law School from 1903 to 1905. In 1903 he was appointed by President Roosevelt as special assistant of the attorney-general of the United States. He was appointed solicitor-general of the United States in 1904. From 1905 to 1909 he was minister to Spain. In 1917 he was elected president of George Washington University. During the World War he was COLLIMATION chairman of the Extension Committee of the Red Cross at Cayuga co., N. Y., and took part in the war-loan campaigns.

He wrote several works on legal subjects, including "Collier on Civil Service Law" (1901); "The Trusts" (1900); and "The Law and the Higher Law" (1918). pointing toward any object. The line of COLLIMATION, the act of aiming or pointing toward any object. The line of Collimation of a telescope is that from the optical center of the objective to the middle wire, or to the mean of the wires of a transit, or to the zero-position of the micrometer-wires in an instrument for measuring zenith-distances. The Error of Collimation of a transit is the departure of this line from a direction at right angles to the axis. The Colat right angles to the axis. The Col- limation Correction is the amount to be applied to the observed times of transit to correct them for this error.