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TECHNICAL EDUCATION 278 TEFFT however, the engineering school finds that it is not to neglect the human factor. For the best schools recognize that the student is a man before he is an engi- neer. A large philosophy of life is looked upon as of value in itself, as well as of value in proipoting the worth and the efficiency of the application of technical training. Among the chief schools are the Rens- selaer Poljrtechnic Institute, founded in 1824; the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University, founded in 1847; the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, founded also in 1847; both these schools waiting some thirteen years for development. The Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology in Boston, founded in 1861 ; Worcester Polytechnic Institute, founded in 1865; Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Pa,, founded in 1866; the Stevens Institute of Technology, at Hoboken, N. J., founded in 1870; Case School of Applied Science at Cleve- land, founded in 1880; and Rose Poly- technic Institute of Indiana, founded in 1883. The schools more recently estab- lished have been, usually, parts of a uni- versity. TECK, an ancient German principal- ity, named from a castle on "the Teck," a limestone peak in the Swabian Alb, 20 miles S. E. of Stuttgart. Held by var- ious families from the 11th century on, it passed in 1498 to the Dukes of Wiirt- emberg. In 1863 the King of Wiirtem- berg conferred the principality on Duke Albert of Wiirtemberg's son (born 1837) who in 1866 married the Princess Mary of Cambridge. Their daughter, Princess Vic- toria Mary married July 6, 1893, Prince George, afterwards George V of England. TECUMSEH, an American Indian; born near Springfield, O., about 1768; first appeared in a fight with Kentucky troops on Mad river in 1788. In 1805, with his brother, Ellskwatawa, he pro- jected the union of all the western In- dians against the whites. His defeat in the battle of Tippecanoe ruined these plans, but he continued his efforts among the southei-n tribes, and ultimately suc- ceeded in inciting the Creek Nation to insurrection. He then joined the Eng- lish, and commanded the Indian allies in the campaigns of 1812-1813. He was in the action of Raisin river, and after be- ing wounded at Maguaga was made a Brigadier-General in the royal army. He led 2,000 warriors in the siege of Fort Meigs, where he saved the American prisoners from massacre: and command- ed the right wing under General Proctor in the battle of the Thames, Canada, where his Indians were driven back and he himself killed, Oct. 5, 1813. TE DEUM ('Te Detim Imfdaviiis,'* "We praise thee, O God") , a well-known Latin hymn of the Western Church — so called from its first words — sung at the end of matins on all feasts except Inno- cents' Day, and on all Sundays except during penitential seasons. The hymn is one of the most simple, and at the same time most solemn and majestic, in the whole range of Latin hymnology. Its authorship is uncertain. The chronicle of Bishop Datius of Milan (died about 552), which is both unauthentic and worthless, descx'ibes the "Te Deum" as the joint production of St. Ambrose and St. Augustine, into which they both burst forth by a common inspiration on occa- sion of the baptism of Augustine. Hence the "Te Deum" is commonly called the "Ambrosian Hymn." The first actual ref- erence to it is in the rule of Caesarius of Aries, who was made a bishop in 502, and it is at any rate certain that it arose as early as the 5th century, and in its mod- ern form was used by Hincmar of Rheims in the 9th century. It is ascribed by some authorities to Hilary of Aries, by others to some disciple of Cassian of Marseilles, but in no case is the evidence at all satisfactory. The hymn in its current form consists of 29 verses; the first 21 verses are uniform in the four oldest ver- sions current, and it seems probable thac verses 1-10 were a Greek hymn dating back to the 2d century, though Bishop John Wordsworth in Julian's "Diction- ary" thinks verses 7-9 are a reminiscence of Cyprian, not vice versa, and that the Greek form of verses 1-10 is a transla- tion from the Latin, not an original com- position. In the Anglican morning prayer it follows the first Lesson, except when the Benedictite is preferred as its alternative. It is frequently used also in the services of both Presbyterian and Congregational Churches, and there are more than 20 metrical renderings of it in English hymnology. TEEL, or TEEL-SEED, an Indian name for Sesamum indiciim and its seed. TEES, a river in the N. of England, rising on Cross Fell, in Cumberland, and flowing 70 miles E., mainly along the boundary between Durham and York- shire, till it falls into the North Sea, 4 miles below Stockton. Owing to works carried out since 1853 it is now navigable to that town for vessels of large burden, those works including the construction of two breakwaters at the mouth. TEFFT. LYMAN BEECHEH, an American college president, bom at Exe- ter. R. I., in 1833. He was educated at