(17 October 1845 – March 13, 1923) was an American Methodist minister, educator and chancellor of Syracuse University.

He attended Maine Wesleyan Seminary and then studied at Bowdoin College but had to stop due to poor health; he eventually received his degree in 1874.

In 1872, he was ordained a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and served as a pastor at Bath, Maine, from 1872 to 1874; Portland, Maine, from 1876 to 1878; Boston, Massachusetts, from 1881 to 1882; New York City, 1883 to 1885 and 1889 to 1893.

[1] Day was elected as the fourth chancellor of Syracuse University on Nov. 16, 1893 to succeed Charles N.

Day was an author and wrote The Raid on Prosperity (1907) and My Neighbor the Workingman.