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=Draper, Andrew Sloan.= _N. Y._, 1848- ----. A lawyer and educator
of Albany, and, since 1894, president of the University of Illinois.
What Ought the Common Schools to Do?; How to Improve the Country
Schools; Powers and Obligations of Teachers; School Administration in
Large Cities; Origin of the New York Common School System; A Teaching
Profession; Authority of the State in Education; Legal Status of
the Public Schools; Normal and Training School System of New York;
Responsibility and Authority of Trustees; American Schools and American
Citizenship; Public School Pioneering in New York and Massachusetts.
=Draper, Henry.= _Va._, 1837-1882. Son of J. W. Draper, _infra_. A
professor in the University of New York. The Construction of a Silvered
Glass Telescope; Text-Book of Chemistry.
=Draper, John Christopher.= _Va._, 1835-1885. Son of J. W. Draper,
_infra_. A New York physician, professor in the University of New York.
Text-Book in Anatomy; Physiology and Hygiene; Practical Laboratory
Course in Physics; Text-Book of Medical Physics.
=Draper, John William.= _E._, 1811-1882. A distinguished scientist who
came from England to the United States in 1832, and from 1839 to 1881
was connected with the University of New York. History of the Civil
War in America; History of the Intellectual Development of Europe;
The Future Civil Policy of America; Human Physiology; Elements of
Chemistry; Text-Book of Natural Philosophy; Text-Book on Physiology;
Researches in Actino-Chemistry; Scientific Memoirs; History of the
Conflict between Religion and Science. _See Dictionary of National
Biography, vol. 16._
=Draper, Lyman Copeland.= _N. Y._, 1815-1891. An antiquarian writer of
Madison, Wisconsin. Madison, the Capital of Wisconsin; King’s Mountain
and its Heroes.
=Drayton, John.= _S. C._, 1766-1822. Son of W. H. Drayton, _infra_. A
South Carolina statesman, twice governor of his State. View of South
Carolina; Letters written during a Tour through the Northern and
Eastern States.
=Drayton, William Henry.= _S. C._, 1742-1779. A prominent figure among
statesmen of the Revolution and a member of the Continental Congress.
A History of the American Revolution, which he left in manuscript, was
afterwards published by his son.
=Drinker, Anne.= “Edith May.” _Pa._, 1827- ----. A verse-writer of
Montrose, Pennsylvania. Poems by Edith May; Tales and Verses for
Children; Katy’s Story.
=Drisler, Henry.= _N. Y._, 1818-1897. A classical scholar of
distinction, professor at Columbia College from 1843, whose
Greek-and-English Lexicon has long been a standard authority.
=Droch.= _See Bridges, Robert._
=Drone, Eaton Sylvester.= _O._, 1842- ----. A legal writer on the
staff of the New York Herald. The Law of Property in Intellectual
Productions, embracing Copyright and Playright. _Lit._
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