HILL, David Jayne, educator, born in Plainfield, New Jersey, 10 , June, 1850. He was graduated at the University of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1874, was professor of rhetoric there in 1877-'9, and in the latter year was chosen president of the institution. Madison university gave him the degree of LL.D. in 1884. He has published " Science of Rhetoric " (New York, 1877): " Elements of Rhetoric and Composition" (1879); " Life of Washington Irving " (1879); " Life of William Cullen Bryant " (1880); and "Principles and Fallacies of Socialism" (1885). He has also edited Jevons's "Elements of Logic" (1884), and has in preparation (1887) "The Relation of Christianity to the Social Problems of our Time."