Drayton
THOMAS FENWICK, an American military officer; born in South Carolina about 1807. He was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1828, and resigned from the army in a wider significance. Highly finished 1836. He entered the Confederate army paintings in water-color are called upon the outbreak of the Civil War. He played a prominent part during the attack on Port Royal, commanding a force in Fort Walker which he was forced to evacuate. He died in Florence, S. C., Feb. 18, 1891.
MICHAEL, an English poet; born near Atherstone in Warwickshire in 1563. His most celebrated composition is "Polyolbion." He wrote also several dramas, among them "Sir John Oldcastle"; and "Poems Lyrick and Pastorall" (1605), including the celebrated "Ballad of Agincourt." He died Dec. 23, 1631.
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Dreams of Animals
It was believed by many that animals dreamed. Pliny says: "Evident it is, that horses, dogs, kine, oxen, sheepe and goats, doe dreame. Whereupon it is credibly also thought that all creatures that bring forth their young quicke and living, doe the same. for those that lay egges, it is not so certian that they dreame; but resolved it is that they doe sleepe." As
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Drebbel
CORNELIUS, a Dutch philosopher; born in Alkmaar, Netherlands, in 1572. He invented the thermometer which was named for him, and is sometimes erroneously said to be the discoverer of the telescope and microscope. He died in London in 1634.
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Dred Scott Case
a notable case before the Supreme Court of the United States in 1856. A negro called Dred Scott, with his wife and two children, had been held as slaves by a Mr. Emerson in Missouri . After Dr. Emerson's death, Scott and his family claimed to be free, as having resided with their owner in a free territory. The decision was hostile to their claim, and they were held to be still slaves.
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Dreiser
THEODORE, an Ameriauthor can and journalist; born in Terre Haute, Ind., 1871. After a common school education he began newspaper work in Chicago, in 1892. After 1898 he did special work for magazines. In 1905 he became editor of "Smith's Magazine," then, subsequently edited the "Broadway Magazine " (1906-1907). From 1907 till 1910 he was editor-in-chief of the Butterick publications. Among his best known books are: "Sister Carrie" (1900); "The Genius" (1915); "A Hoosier Holiday" (1916), and "The Hand of the Palter," a tragedy (1919).
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Dresden China
a delicate, semitransparent, highly-finished china made at Meissen, near Dresden. The manufacture resulted from an accidental discovery made by Böttger, a young chemist, in 1710.
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Dress
. See Clothing
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Dresser
HORATIO WILLIS, an American writer, born at Yarmouth, Me., in 1866. He graduated from Harvard University in 1895. He served for several years as a telegraph operator and railroad agent. He was also engaged in publishing and as the editor of the "Journal of Practical Metaphysics." He served as instructor in philosophy and church history in the New Church Theological School of Cambridge, Mass., in 1913-1914, and from 1893 to 1912 was a lecturer on practical philosophy. He wrote many books on this subject, including "The Power of Silence" (1895); "Voices of Hope" (1898); "Handbook of the New Thought" (1917); "The Victorious Faith" (1917). He also edited several works on the New Thought Movement.
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Dressing
The preparatory finishing and fashioning which a loam-mould receives before the final blackening takes place. The mould is moistened with water, dressed with chinsing-sticks, and finished with the requisite tools See FINISHING.
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Drew Theological Seminary
a theological seminary, under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church, founded at Madison, N. J., in 1866. It was named for Daniel Drew, who gave grounds and buildings valued at $275,000. The courses are for three years, and give not only professional training but training liberal culture. No tuition fees are charged. The seminary buildings include Mead Hall, Asbury Hall, Embury Hall, the Administration Building and chapel, the J. B. Cornell Library, the Bowne Gymnasium, and the Samuel W. Bowne Hall. The library contains about 130,000 volumes. The enrolment is about 200.
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Drexel
ANTHONY JOSEPH, an American banker; born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1826. He became the head of the well-known firm of Drexel & Co., Philadelphia, having been identified with it from the age of 13. He was zealous in promoting science and art, especially music, and contributed largely to philanthropic and educational interests. The Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry Philadelphia, dedicated Dec. 18, 1891, was established by him. His name is associated with that of his friend, George W. Childs, in the inception of the Childs-Drexel Home for Union Printers, Colorado Springs, Col. He died in 1893.
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Drexel Institute
CONSULTING ENGINEER E. D. PIERSON
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Drexel Institute of Art
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY, an insti. tution founded in 1891 in Philadelphia, by Anthony J. Drexel. Its purpose is to instruct men in engineering; women in the domestic arts and science; and both men and women in clerical and secretarial work. The Institute includes the Engineering School, the School of Domestic Science and Art, and the Secretarial School. Special courses are also offered in chemistry, architecture, and English. In 1919 there were 499 students and 51 members of the faculty. President, Hollis Godfrey, Sc. D., F. R. G. S.
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Dreyfus
ALFRED, a French mili tary officer; born in Alsace in 1859. Ha entered the Polytechnic School in Paris in 1878 and four years later was made a lieutenant of artillery. In 1889 he became a captain. He was arrested in 1894 charged with selling military secrets to Germany and Italy. He was convicted and on Jan. 5, 1895, publicly degraded from his rank in the presence of 5,000 troops. His sentence included life imprisonment on the Isle du Diable, off the coast of French Guiana, where he was rigidly confined till 1899 when the French Senate voted for revision of the Dreyfus 14 ALFRED DREYFUS case. He was accordingly brought back to France, retried by court-martial and again convicted. The French Government granted him a pardon almost immediately. He published "Five Years of My Life" (1901). Dreyfus was restored to the army, and served during the World War.
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Dreyse
JOHANN NIKOLAUS VON (dri'ze), a German inventor; born in Sömmerda, near Erfurt, in Prussia, in 1787. He worked as a locksmith in Germany, and in a musket factory in Paris from 1809 to 1814. He then founded an ironware factory in Sömmerda, and began the manufacture of percussion-caps under a patent in 1824. In 1827 he invented a muzzle-loading, and in 1836 a breech-loading needle-gun, which was adopted in the Prussian army in 1840. In 1864 Dreyse was ennobled. He died Dec. 9, 1867.
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