Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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tit 1 lt., 1.1 -. llhfq 'S l I IL .ll I THEODORE BAIRD, Kappa Alpha Society Associate Professor of English. B.A., Hobart College, '2lg M.A., Harvard, '22, Ph.D., '29. Instructor in English, Western Reserve University, 1922-23. Instructor in English, Union College, 1923-25. Graduate Study at Harvard, 1925-27. Ap- pointed lnstructor in English at Amherst, 1927-297 Assistant Professor, 1929- 325 Associate Professor, 1932-. ARTHUR HENRY BAXTER, Alpha Delta Phi Professor of Romance Languages. B.A., Iohns Hopkins, '94g Ph.D., '98, Instructor in Italian, Iohns Hopkins, 1897-98. Master of French and German, Country School for Boys, Baltimore, 1898-1900. Instructor in Ro- mance Languages, Amherst, 1900-067 Assistant Professor, 1906-08, Associate Professor, 1908-227 Professor, 1922-. RALPH ALONZO BEEBE, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Beta Kappa Associate Professor of Chemistry. B.A., Amherst, '20p Ph.D., Princeton, '23. Second Lieutenant, Infantry, Plattsburg Training Camp, 1918. Graduate study, Princeton, 1920-23. Instructor in Chemistry, Amherst, 1923-255 Asso- ciate Professor, 1925-. CHARLES ERNEST BENNETT, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Beta Kappa Moore Professor of Latin. B.A., Amherst, '05y Ph.D., Cornell, '11. Assistant Principal and Instructor in German and Latin, Nanticok, Pa., High School, 1905-06. Sub-master at Washington School for Boys, Wash- ington, D. C., I906-07. Instructor at Volkman School, Boston, and graduate student at Harvard, 1907-08. Graduate student and Teaching Fellow, Cornell, 1908-ll. Instructor in Latin, Amherst, 1911-137 Assistant Professor, 1913-147 Associate Professor, 1914-195 Professor, 1919-. Author: Across the Years. Member of the Archaeological Institute of America, and the American Philo- I logical Association. WILLIAM PINGRY BIGELOW, Chi Phi Professor of Music. B.A., Amherst, '89p M.A., 'I2. Studied Music in Worcester, 1889-90, in Berlin and Dusseldorf, 1890-94. Instructor in German and Music, Amherst, 1894-l90lp Associate Professor, 1901-06: Professor, 1906-081 Professor of Music, 1908-. Twelve

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. w I I I 1 .U 1 I :H t is P: I I , 1 ' I t' 1 1, . PAUL CHRYSOSTOM PHILLIPS, Theta Delta Chi Parmly Billings Professor of Hygiene and Physical Education, Emeritus. B.A., Amherst, '885 M.D., Columbia, '955 1v1.P.E., Springfield, '21. Medical and Athletic Director of the General Board of the Y. M. C. A., Chicago, 1895. As- sistant Professor of Hygiene and Physical Education, Amherst, 18995 Professor of Hygiene and Physical Education, 1908-295 Professor Emeritus, 1929-. Member of the Council of the American Physical Education Association and member of American Association for the Advancement of Science. President of the Society of College Gymnasium Directors, 1902, and Secretary, 1910-20. JOSEPH OSGOOD THOMPSON, Phi Beta Kappa Professor of Physics, Emeritus. B.A., Amherst, '845 -Ph.D., University of Strassburg, '9l. Instructor in Park College, 1884-86. Graduate work at Amherst, 1886-87. Walker Instructor of Mathematics, Amherst, 1887-89. Graduate work at the University of Strassburg, 1889-91. Instructor in Physics, Haverford, 1891-94. Associate Professor of Physics, Amherst, 1894-185 Professor, 1918-285 Pro- fessor Erneritus, 1928-. Fellow of the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science. Author, Ueber das Gesetz der Elastichen Dehnung in Wiedmann's Anna1em, Fatigue in the Elasticity of Stretching, and Investi- gations in Torsion Elasticityf' in the Physical Review. Member of the Ameri- can Physical Association. DAVID TODD, Phi Beta Kappa Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus. B.A., Amherst, '755 M.A., '785 Ph.D., Washington and leiferson, '88, Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Amherst Observatory, 1881- 175 Professor Emeritus, 1917-. Director of National Academy Eclipse Ex- pedition to lapan, 1887. Chief of the Government Eclipse Expeditions to West Africa, 1888-90. Director of Amherst Eclipse Expedition to Iapan, 18965 to Tripoli, 19055 and the Mars Expedition to the Andes, 1907. Member of the Boston Author's Club, of the Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America, and of the Astronomiche Gesellschaft of Germany. GEOFFROY ATKINSON, Beta Theta Pi Professor of Romance Languages. B.S., Amherst, 'l35 M.A., Columbia, '14, Ph.D., '20. Graduate work at Columbia, 1913-145 1916-175 1919-20. Secretary and Interpreter, Rockefeller Tuberculosis Commission to France, 1917. Instructor in Modern Languages, Union College, 1914-16. British and American Ex- peditionary Forces, 1917-19. Instructor in French, Columbia, 1919-20. Asso- ciate Professor of Romance Languages, Amherst, 19205 Professor, 1928-5 Dean of Amherst College, 1929-31. Fellow of the C. R. B. Foundation, Brussells, Belgium, 1925-27. Author: The Extraordinary Voyage in French Literature, 2 Volumes, 1920, 19225 Les Relations de Voyage du 17e Siecle, et l'evo1ution des idees, Paris, 19245 La Litterature Geographique francaise de la Renais- sance, Paris, 1927, in-4to, Francois Villon, London, 1930. Guggenheim Fel- lowship, 1934-35. GEORGE WILLIAM BAIN, Chi Phi, Sigma Xi Assistant Professor of Mineralogy and Geology on the Edward Hitch- cock Foundation. B.Sc., McGill University, '2l5 M.Sc., '235 M.A., Columbia, '235 Ph.D., '27. Associate of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engin- eers5 Member of the Committee on Mining Geology. Member of the Can- adian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists. Fellow of the Geological Society of America. Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences. Assistant Geologist, Geological Survey of Canada, 1923-24. Assistant to Vermont State Geologist, 1925. Assistant Pro- fessor, University of Vermont, 1925-26. Appointed Instructor in Geology at Amherst, 1926-315 Assistant Professor, 1931-. - r 'f ., It , Eleven 5 , 1 V 1 1 I 7 t I i - 'J V 1 , , , l I, .nt I '55 11,4 5

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PHILLIPS BRADLEY, Alpha Delta Phi Associate Professor of Political Science. A.B,, Harvard, '16. Assistant at Harvard, 1915-16. Instructor in Political Science, Amherst, 1921. Assistant Professor, Vassar, 1921-22. Assistant Professor, Wellesley, 1922-25. Associate Professor of Political Science, Amherst, 1925-. Member of the American Political Science Association and the American Society of International Law. Member Executive Board the Social Studies, 1934-7 Mem- ber Sub-Committee on Personnel American Political Science Association, 1934. BAILEY LE PEVRE BROWN Instructor in Mathematics. B.A., Amherst, '24, M.A., Princeton, '25, Graduate Student at Princeton, 1924-27. Instructor in Mathematics at Bryn Mawr, 1927. Appointed Instructor in Mathematics at Amherst, 1927 Member American Mathematical Society, FAYETTE CURTIS CANFIELD, Phi Kappa Psi Assistant Professor of Dramatics. B.A., Amherst, '25. Appointed Assistant in Dramatics at Amherst, 19265 Instructor, 1927-301 Assistant Professor, 1930-34, Associate Professor, 1934-. Member National Theatre Conference. Editor, Plays of the Irish Renaissance, 1929. IAMES TOUGH CLELAND Assistant Professor of Religion. M.A., Glasgow, '24p B.D., '27g S.T.M., Union Theological Seminary, 28 Iarvie Fellowship in New York, 1927-28. Holder of Black and Faulds Teaching Fellowship at Glasgow. Member of the Divinity Faculty of Glas gow University, 1928-31. Appointed Instructor in Religion at Amherst, 1931 Assistant Professor, 1932-. CHARLES WIGGINGS COBB, Theta Delta Chi, Sigma Xi Professor of Mathematics. Thirteen B.A., Amherst, '977 M.A., 'Olg Ph.D., University of Michigan, 12. Instructor at Albany Academy, Fitchburg High School, New York High School of Commerce, and Worcester Academy, 1897-1904. Graduate study at Columbia and New York University, 1904-05, at Clark University, 1907-O97 at the University of Michigan, 1910-11. Instructor in Mathematics at Amherst, 1908-IO: Assistant Professor, 1911-147 Associate Professor, 1914-225 Professor, 1922-. Captain in the Air Service, 1917-18. Arbitrator for the Rochester Clothing Market, 1922-24.