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"DAVID JAYNE HILL (1850-), American diplomat and publicist, was born at Plainfield, N.J., June 19 1850. After graduating in 1874 from the university of Lewisburg, Pa. (later known as Bucknell University), he taught there first as instructor in Greek and Latin and from 1877 as professor of rhetoric. In 1879 he was elected president of Bucknell and in 1888 of the university of Rochester. In 1896 he resigned and went abroad to study public law. He returned in 1898 on being appointed Assistant Secretary of State by President McKinley. While in Washington he was also professor of European diplomacy in the School of Comparative Jurisprudence and Diplomacy. In 1903 he was appointed ambassador to Switzerland and in 1905 was transferred to Holland, where he remained two years. He was a delegate to the Second Peace Conference at The Hague in 1907.

From 1908 to 1911 he was ambassador to Germany, resigning in the latter year. In 1914 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate to succeed Elihu Root. In 1920 he was made a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

His best known work is his History of Diplomacy in the International Development of Europe, embracing A Struggle for Universal Empire (1905); The Establishment of Territorial Sovereignty (1906) and The Diplomacy of the Age of Absolutism (1914). His other numerous writings include a Life of Washington Irving (1877); a Life of William Cullen Bryant (1878); The Science of Rhetoric (1878); The Elements of Psychology (1886); The Social Influence of Christianity (1888); Principles and Fallacies of Socialism (1888)

Genetic Philosophy (1893); The Conception and Realization of Neutrality (1902); World Organization as Affected by the Nature of the Modern State (1911, being lectures delivered at Columbia University); The People's Government (1915); Americanism - What It Is (1916); The Rebuilding of Europe (1917); Impressions of the Kaiser (1918); Present Problems in Foreign Policy (1919) and American World Policies (1920).