Wayland, Francis

Wayland, Francis,





Wayland, Francis

(1826–1904) lawyer, educator; born in Boston, Mass. (son of Francis Wayland, 1796–1865). 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 American graduate law degrees.

Wayland, Francis

(1796–1865) clergyman, educator; born in New York City. 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 (1828).