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THEODORE WILLIAM DWIGHT (1822-1892)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 741 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THEODORE See also:WILLIAM See also:DWIGHT (1822-1892)  , See also:American jurist and educationalist, See also:cousin of See also:Theodore See also:Dwight See also:Woolsey and of See also:Timothy Dwight, was See also:born on the 18th of See also:July 1822 in See also:Catskill, New See also:York . His See also:father, See also:Benjamin Woolsey Dwight (1780-1850), an abolitionist and reformer, removed to See also:Clinton, New York, in 1831 . The son graduated at See also:Hamilton See also:College in 1840, studied physics under S . F . B . See also:Morse and See also:John See also:William See also:Draper, taught See also:classics in See also:Utica See also:Academy in 184o-1841, and studied See also:law for one See also:year at Yale . He was See also:tutor at Hamilton in 1841-1846, at the same See also:time teaching law privately; was made See also:Maynard See also:professor of law, See also:history, See also:civil polity, and See also:political See also:economy in 1846; received recognition of his law school in 1853, and in 1858 accepted an invitation to See also:Columbia to See also:teach law upon his own See also:condition that he should found a law school . He himself was this school for many years and did not retire from it until 1891, about a year before his See also:death, at Clinton, New York, on the 28th of See also:June 1892 . A See also:man of broad culture, he was best known as the founder of a famous school of law and a famous method of legal teaching, which was broadly educational and which called for class-See also:room recitation on the See also:text-See also:book studied and opposed See also:mere "taking notes " on lectures . His questioning was illustrative and its method Socratic . He was a non-See also:resident professor of law at Cornell (1869-1871) and at See also:Amherst (1870-1872) . Dwight was an able jurist, frequently acted as See also:referee in difficult questions, in 1874-1875 was a See also:judge of the New York See also:commission of appeals, appointed to clear the See also:docket of the See also:court of appeals, and in 1886 was counsel for the five See also:Andover professors charged with See also:heresy .

He was a prominent figure in political and social (notably See also:

prison) reforms; published in 1867 a See also:Report on the Prisons and Reformatories of the See also:United States and See also:Canada, the result of his labours on a New York See also:state prison commission with See also:Enoch See also:Cobb Wines (1806-1879); favoured indeterminate sentences; See also:drew up the See also:bill for the See also:establishment of the See also:Elmira Reformatory; and organized the State Charities Aid Association . He edited See also:Sir See also:Henry See also:Maine's See also:Ancient Law (1864); was See also:associate editor of the American Law See also:Register and legal editor of See also:Johnson's Cyclopaedia; and published Charitable Uses: See also:Argument in the See also:Rose Will See also:Case (1863) .

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