The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1867-09-14
WHOLE NO. 16O.


The venerable ex-President of Yale
College, and author. Jeremiah Day, ID. ID.
and l.. l.. D., died at New Haven, Conn,
on the 22d of August, at the ripe age of
"a years. He was born at New Preston,
Connecticut, August 3, 1773, and enter
ed Yale College in 1880 On account of
i'll health he was not able to GO on with
the class TO which he at first belonged
but after an absence of several years re-
sumed his college studies, and was gradu-
ated with high honor in 1895. This was
the year of DR.. Dwight's accession to the
Presidency of the college, on whose re-
moval from Greenfield, Day was invited
to take charge of the school in that
village, which had flourished SO greatly
under the care of the former. He ac-
cepted the invitation and continued there
a year, when he was elected tutor in
Williams College, where he remained
until he was chosen tutor in Yale Col
lege in 1898. Having resolved to enter
upon theology as a profession, while
acting as tutor, but before taking charge
of any parish, he was, in 1901, elected TO
the Professorship of Mathematics and
Natural Philosophy in Yale College.
His health, however, still being feeble,
he was not able to enter on his duties
until 1903, but after that continued in
them until 1877, when, on the death Of
! DIR. Dwight, he was elected his successor
| in the Presidency. In July of the same
year he was formally inaugurated and
on the same day was ordained as q
minister of the gospel. In 1917 he re-
ceived the degree of LII. ID. from Middle
bury College, and in 1918 the degree of
| ID. ID. from Union College, and the latter
degree from Harvard College in 1881.
He continued in the Presidency of Yale
College till 1916, when, on account of i'll
health, he resigned at the age of 73, but
yet lived 81 years after. Although that
venerable institution has been deemed
particularly fortunate in its Presidents,
it was never more prosperous than under
the Presidency of DIR. Day. He was
amiable and kindly in manner, of great
learning, good judgment, and always Sc
cured the love and respect of his pupils.
| He excelled as mathematician, and his
well known "Algebra," first published in
| 1914, has passed through several edi-
tions. new, much improved and ex-
tended edition of it was issued in 1852
by the Joint labors of himself and Prof.
| Stanly His work on "Mensuration of
| Superficies and Solids" was published in
| 1914, his "Plane TTigonometry" in 1873,
and his Navigation and Surveying" in
| 1917. These works, like his Algebra,
| nave gone through uuIuSIouS tOltlOhSs
and are adopted extensively as standard
works in the colleges and seminaries of
of the land. In 1888 DIR. Day published
"An Inquiry ON Self-determining Power
of the Will, or Contingent VolitioD, +"
i and a second edition of the same in 1S49.
In 1S41 he published "An Examination
of President Edwards Inquiry as TO the
Freedom of WILL" He also published a
number of occasional sermons, and con-
tributed papers to the journal cf Science.
the Neao ERgLander, etc. He continued
to live in New Haven to the day of his
death, in the possession of all his facul-
ties and the enjoyment of good old age,
respected and esteemed by the entire
community as well as by thousands in
every part of the land whom he aided
in training for respectability and useful
ness. We believe Sherman Day, well
known in this State as a civil engineer,
is a near relative, if not a son, of the
late ex-President Day.-SdcrdDaeRt eRt0
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