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Wayland, Francis

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Wayland, Francis (1826–1904)

US lawyer and educator. A Massachusetts and Connecticut lawyer trained at Harvard Law School, he was dean of Yale Law School (1873–1903), where he revitalized and expanded the school and introduced the first US graduate law degrees. Wayland was born in Boston, Massachusetts.

Wayland, Francis (1796–1865)

US clergyman and educator. He wrote the classic Moral Dignity of the Missionary Enterprise (1823). As president of Brown University (1827–55), he greatly strengthened the faculty and curriculum. His influential Report on the Condition of the University (1850) advocated a higher education responsive to democracy's needs. He planned the Rhode Island public school system in 1828. Wayland was born in New York City.



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