Duyckinck
EVERT AUGUSTUS (di'kingk), an American author; born in New York City, Nov. 23, 1816. Graduating from Columbia College, he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1837. In 1847 he edited the "Literary World." In 1854, with his brother, George, he prepared the "Cyclopædia of American Americ Literature" (2 vols. 1855; enlarged eds. 1865 and 1875). His last work was the preparation, with William Cullen Bryant, of an edition of Shakespeare. He died in New York City, Aug. 13, 1878. DVOŘÁK, ANTONIN (dvor'zhäk), a Bohemian composer; born near Mühlhausen, Sept. 8, 1841. His father was an innkeeper and butcher. Attention was first called to him by what remains his best work, a "Stabat Mater." He has made great use of Bohemian folk music. His "Bohemian Dances" (two sets), 30 variations on a Bohemian theme for grand orchestra, "Hulsitska" overture; cantata, "The Specter's Bride," and a symphony written for the London Philharmonic Society, are his most widely known works. His oratorio, "St. Ludmilla," was written for the Leeds Festival of Oct. 15, 1887. He came to the United States in 1892, and became director of the National Academy of Music. His "New World Symphony" was produced in 1893. He died May 1, 1904.
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Dwarka
maritime town of a Guzerat, India, on the W. side of the peninsula of Kathiawar, in the Dominion of Baroda, 235 miles S. W. of Ahmedabad. On an eminence overhanging the seashore stands a great temple of Krishna, visited annually by 10,000 pilgrims.
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Dwight
dwit, Timothy (1752-1817), an American clergyman. He was born at Norwich, Connecticut. His father was a merchant. His mother was a daughter of the famous Jonathan Edwards. It is said that he was able to read the Bible fluently at the age of four. He was graduated at Yale at the age of seventeen. He taught in a grammar school, tutored in Yale, and served as a chaplain in the Revolutionary army. After the close of the war he opened an academy. In 1795 he was selected president of Yale College, a position which he held until his death. He is considered one of the ablest of a long line of Yale presidents. His published writings, which reach seven volumes, consist chiefly of theological essays and sermons. A grandson of the same name, a noted Greek and Biblical scholar, became president of Yale in 1886.
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Dwight
HARRISON GRAY OTIS, an American missionary; born in Con. way, Mass., Nov. 22, 1803; was graduated at Hamilton College, New York, in 1825, and became a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1820 to the Armenians, making Constantinople the center of his field of operations. "Researches of Smith and Dwight in Armenia" and "Christianity Revived in the East." He died Jan. 25, 1862.
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Dwight (II)
THEODORE WILLIAM, an American educator, jurist, and editor; born in Catskill, N. Y., July 18, 1822; was educated at Hamilton , and pursued the study of law at the College Yale Law School; was Professor of Law in Hamilton College and subsequently in Columbia College, in each of which he founded a law school. He received the degree of doctor of laws from both Rutgers and Columbia colleges, and was (non-resident) Professor of Constitutional Law in Cornell University. He was also interested in philanthropic work, and served as president of the New York Prison Association, vice-president of the New York Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities, and as a member of the "Committee of Seventy," of New York City. In collaboration with Rev. E. C. Wines, D. D., he published "Prisons and Reformatories in the United States," and was associate editor of the "American Law Register." He died in Clinton, N. Y., June 28, 1892.
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Dwight (TIMOTHY an American)
TIMOTHY, an American Congregational clergyman; born in He Northampton, Mass., May of Yale ay was president College from 14, 1752. 1795 to 1817, and was a very conspicuous figure in theology and education. His "Theology Explained and Defended" consists of a course of 173 sermons which has passed through as many as 100 editions. In addition to theological works he wrote "Essay on Light"; "Observations on Language"; "Travels in New England and New York," which is still widely quoted. He also wrote verse; an epic called "The Conquest of Canaan"; "Greenfield Hill," a pastoral; "The Triumph of Infidelity," a satire. He died in New Haven, Conn., Jan. 11, 1817.
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Dyaks
2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about other peoples, religions, or nationalities that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) or DAYAKS, the Malay name for the race which constitutes the bulk of the aboriginal population of Borneo, divided into innumerable tribes differing pretty widely in language, customs, and degrees of savageness. Physically they closely resemble the Malays. to whom they are doubtless akin, but are somewhat taller; they are intelligent, hospitable, and unsuspicious, and greatly excel the Malays in truthfulness and honesty. Even the most uncivilized tribes have many ingenious arts and industries, weave cloth, make excellent steel weapons, and erect most serviceable suspension bridges with bamboo poles Their chief weapon is the and withes. lowpipe. The barbarous custom of systematic head-hunting is dying out. The Sea-Dyaks were long famous as untamable pirates.
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Dyer
ALEXANDER BRYDIE, an American soldier, born in Fayetteville, N. C., in 1852. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1873 and in the same year was commissioned 2d lieutant of the 4th Artillery. He rose through the various grades, becoming colonel of the artillery corps in 1907. In 1913 he retired from active service. He participated in tamainagainst the participated in campaigns against the served on the Mexican border in 1913. He was the author of "Handbook for Light Artillery" (1896).
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Dyer (MARY a Quakeress who suffered)
MARY, a Quakeress who suffered persecution under the laws in the early days of Massachusetts, when members of that sect were excluded from the State under penalty of death. She was imprisoned, tried, and condemned to be executed; was reprieved on the scaffold, and forcibly taken out of the State. Her religious enthusiasm, however, was so great that she returned and was hanged on Boston Common, June 1, 1660.
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