Hyde office in many of the American and foreign med- ical societies to which he belonged and in 1905 was secretary for America of the Fifth Interna- tional Dermatological Congress. He was at- tending dermatologist at the Presbyterian, Mi- chael Reese, Augustana, and Children's Memo- rial Hospitals and to the Orphan Asylum of the City of Chicago. Aside from his professional activities, he was one of Chicago's most prominent citizens, tak- ing an active part in all movements having for their object the social or economic improvement of the community. He was particularly inter- ested in the affairs of Christ Church, whose rec- tor, Charles E. Cheney [g.^.], was his wife's brother-in-law; for years he acted as a chorister there and a teacher in the Sunday school. He was also one of the directors of the Reformed Episcopal Synod of Chicago and a contributor to the Evangelical Episcopalian. He had an en- gaging personality characterized by the dignity, the courtesy, and the manners of generations past. On July 31,1872, he was married to Alice Louise Griswold of Chicago. They had two sons. He died suddenly at his summer home at Prouts Neck, Me. [R. H. Walworth, Hyde Geneal. (1864), vol. I; 0. S. Onnsby, in Chicago Medic. Recorder, Sept. 15,1910 ; Jour. Am. Medic. Asso., Sept. 17, 1910; H. A. Kelly and W. L. Burrage, Am. Medic. Biogs. (1920); Obit. Record Grads. Yale Univ., 19x1; Who's Who in Amer- ica, 1908-09; Chicago Daily Tribune, Sept. 8, 1910; personal acquaintance.] J.M.P. HYDE, WILLIAM DeWITT (Sept 23. i858-June 29,1917), educator, author, was born in Winchendon, Mass., the second and only sur- viving child of Joel and Eliza (DeWitt) Hyde. His first ancestor in America was Jonathan Hyde, who emigrated from London in 1647 and settled at Newton, Mass. William's mother died shortly after her son's birth; and his father, a farmer and maker of wooden ware, died seven years later, leaving the son an inheritance suf- ficient, with frugality, to provide for his educa- tion. Puritanism charged the atmosphere in which he grew. Brought up by relatives in Keene, N. H., and later in Southbridge, Mass., he was graduated from Phillips Academy, Exe- ter, N. H., in 1875, and entered Harvard, from which he was graduated in 1879. His letters of this period reveal a deeply religious youth, reli- ant on reason and bent upon service. After a year at Union Theological Seminary, he com- pleted his course at Andover in 1882. Here he came under the growing influence of the socially motivated "new theology," and of a profoundly rdigious local physician, Dr. James Howarth. A post-graduate year was chiefly notable for Hyde Hyde's renewed contacts with George Herbert Palmer of Harvard, his spiritual father, whose Hegel seminar he attended; and for his own meditations. He was ordained to the Congrega- tional ministry on Sept. 27, 1883, and became pastor of a church in Paterson, N. J. On Nov. 6, 1883, he married Prudence Phillips of South- bridge, Mass. Of this union twins, soon de- ceased, were born in 1884, and, in 1887, one son. Meanwhile he had shown his intellectual vigor by publishing two technical articles on theology, 'The Metaphysical Basis of Belief in God" (New Englander, September 1883), and "An Analysis of Consciousness in Its Relation to Eschatology" (Ibid., November 1884); and his Andover teach- er, Egbert C. Smyth [g.-z/.], an influential trus- tee of Bowdoin College, was considering him as a possibility for the chair of philosophy and the presidency of the institution. In June 1885, the offer was made and accepted. Hyde was then, at the age of twenty-six, un- commonly mature in most of the powers that were to carry him swiftly to leadership. He had attained his fundamental concepts in philosophy, ethics, and religion. He had a finished literary style. As a public speaker he had skill, vigor, charm, trenchancy, enforced by good temper— although a leaning toward the rhetorical some- times led him into overstatement—a pleasing voice, and athletic bearing. For thirty-two years he was a prophet, interpreting to thinking peo- ple a rational social theology of Divine imma- nence, Greek virtues supplemented by Christian- ity, philosophical idealism, liberalism, and evo- lutionary progress; the principles and applica- tions of which he set forth in a stream of bril- liant books and articles. He could interpret pub- lic issues in phrases of pregnant contrast, as in his last address, Patriot's Day 1917, on "The Cause for Which We Fight." His most popular books were Practical Ethics (1892), translated into Japanese (1909) and into Gujarati, a dia- lect of India (1923); From Epicurus to Christ (1904), republished as The Five Great Philos- ophiesofLife (1911) ; Self-Measurement (1908), translated into Japanese (1910). Important among his other works are, Outlines of Social Theology (1895), Practical Idealism (1897), God's Education of Man (1899), Jews? Way (1902), translated into French (1904). In the political campaign of 1888 he estab- lished a reputation for courageous independence by a speech in Republican Maine for Cleveland and tariff reform. In the same spirit, at the Second International Council of Congregational Churches, hdd at Boston in 1899, he urged the rejuvenation of theological education with a 452