Collier (IV)
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 presi- Commissio dent 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 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).
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Collier (JEREMY an English clergyman)
JEREMY, an English clergyman and political writer; born in 1650. He was educated at Cambridge, and having taken orders became rector of Ampton in Suffolk in 1679. He is chiefly remembered now for his "Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage," a work which effected a reform in the sentiments and language of the theater. He died in 1726.
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Collier, Jeremy
Jeremy (1650-1726), an English bishop. Collier was known in his own time as a bold political writer, but the work whose influence was greatest and has been most lasting was entitled A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage. This pamphlet was an attack upon the writings of Wycherley, Congreve, Dryden, and others. It was the first step in the purification, not only of the drama, but of all lighter literature. Written with both wit and force, it was widely read, and received the support of the moral and thoughtful, although it met, naturally enough, with opposition. Dryden himself gracefully acknowledged its justice. I shall say less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.-Dryden, Preface to Fables.
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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 Collimation Correction is the amount to be applied to the observed times of transit to correct them for this error.
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Collimators
telescopes used for the determination of the corrections of collimation, for flexure, or for the zenithpoint of a meridian-circle or transit. They are generally fixed upon piers N. and S. of the instrument and pointed toward each other and toward the instrument itself when in a horizontal position. They are adjusted so as to be intervisible when the instrument is lifted out of its Y's, and, on looking into either, the wires of the other are seen alongside those in the field, so that they can be pointed on each other, or the instrument itself upon either in turn. Besides the above arrangement there are many others, and also other uses of Collimators. Very often a long focus lens with a distant meridian-mark takes the place of one of the Collimators, and it is then used also as a reference point for the azimuth-correction of the instrument.
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Collingwood
CUTHBERT, LORD, an English naval val commander ; born in ; Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1750. He entered the royal navy in 1761, and took part as flag-captain on board the "Barfleur" in Lord Howe's victory of June 1, 1794, commanded the "Excellent" during the battle off Cape St. Vincent on Feb. 14, in that year, and was made rear-admiral of the white in 1799. His most distinguished service was at Trafalgar, where he won the praise of Nelson. On the latter's death Collingwood as senior officer took command of the fleet. For his services here he was elevated to the rank of baron. He died, while cruising off Minorca in the "Ville de Paris," on March 7, 1810. His "Memoirs and Correspondence" have been published.
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Collins
WILLIAM, an English poet; born in Chichester, Dec. 25, 1721. His melancholy temperament and poetic musings marked him as a boy, and at Oxford. "The Passions," the "Ode to Evening," the "Dirge in Cymbeline," and the "Ode on the Death of Thomson," chiefly perpetuate his fame. He died in a madhouse at Chichester, June 12, 1759.
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Collins
WILLIAM, an English painter; born in London, Sept. 8, 1788; father of William Wilkie Collins. His most popular works are: "Happy as a King," "The Stray Kitten," "Putting Salt on the Bird's Tail," and "The Newly Found Nest." He died in London, Feb. 17, 1847.
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Collins
JOHN CHURTON, an English educator and writer, born in 1848. He graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1872. For many years he con tributed book reviews and criticisms to the English reviews. In 1904 he was appointed professor of English literature at the University of Birmingham. He edited many editions of English classics and wrote "Sir Joshua Reynolds as a Portrait Painter" (1874); "Study of English Literature" (1891); "Essays and Studies" (1895); "Essays in Poetry and Criticism" (1905); and "Rousseau and Voltaire" (1908). He died in 1908.
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Collins (II)
WILLIAM WILKIE, an English novelist; born in London, Jan. 8, 1824. He was educated at a private WILLIAM WILKIE COLLINS school. After a short time in the teatrade he studied law at Lincoln's Inn. He wrote a biography of his father in 1848 and made literature his profession, 5-Vol. III-Cyc His first novel was "Antonina" (1850); "Rambles Beyond Railways" follow. In 1852 he returned to fiction with "Basil," and "Mr. Wray's Cash Box," "Hide and Seek" followed in 1854. In "Household Words," "After Dark" and one of his most successful works, "The Dead Secret," were originally published. Several of his novels, including "The Woman in White" and "No Name," were published originally in "All the Year Round." "Armadale" and many of his subsequent stories were printed in American magazines before appearing in book-form. "The Moonstone," "Man and Wife," "The New Magdalen," and "The Law and the Lady" are other works of his that had wide circulation. His principal books have been translated into French, Italian, German, Dutch, Danish, and Russian. He died in London, September, 1889.
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