Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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V :I 't I ' , 1 tt ' 1 , ,,. , t - . 1. .gt , , 1 V ' , I t.Y1l ,V . rf . , :txt L 1 t .1 1 1 La. GEORGE ROGERS TAYLOR ssociate Professor of Economics Ph.B., University of Chicago, '2lp Ph.D., '29 Instructor, Department of Economics of the University of Iowa, 1921. Act ing Professor of Economics, Earlham College, 1923. Instructor in Economics at Amherst 1924-27' Assistant Professor 1927-29- Associate Professor 1929 IOI-IN RICHMOND THEOBALD Instructor in English BA Oxford 25 MA 28 STM Union Theological Seminary 29 Graduate study at Oxford 1925 28 English Fellowship to the Union Theological Seminary, 1928-29. Lecturer in English at Oueen's University 1929-30. Instructor in English, Amherst, 1931-. Published poems in the Ox ford Poetry Magazine and the Oxford Outloos. Winner of the Oxford Outlook Prizes 1928 FREDERIC LINCOLN THOMPSON Delta Kappa Epsilon Winkley Professor of History BA Amherst 97 MA Harvard 07 Instructor in the Pennsylvania Institute for the Blind 189293 Kings School Stamford Conn 1893 95 in Sachs Institute New York City 1895 tory at Harvard 1906 07 Associate Professor of History at Amherst 1907 09 Professor 1909 Director Foyer du Soldat 1-irst French Army 191819 Member of the American Historical Society and the American Political ScxenCe Association Fellow of the American Geographical Society Officer de lIn struction Publique de la Republigue Francaise CHARLES'1-IANSEN TOLL, Psi Upsilon, Phi Beta Kappa Professor of Philosophy and Psychology BA Hamilton 04 AM Harvard 05 PhD Freiburg 1 B 09 Graduate work at Harvard 190406 Iohn Harvard Fellow 1906 08 Graduate study at the University of Berlin and Freiburg, i. B., 1907-09 A sistant Professor of Philosophy at Amherst, 1909-125 Associate Professor 1912 23' Professor 1923-. Commissioned First Lieutenant and later Captain Sant tary Corps. Chief Psychological Examiner, Camp Custer, 1918. Major Sam tary Corps Res., 1922 A . I 1903. Graduate study in Paris, 1903-05. Harvard, 1905-07. Assistant in His- . - , D sl FREDERICK KING TURGEON, Beta Theta Pi, Phi Beta Kappa Assistant Professor of French. B.A., Bowdoin, '23g A.M., Harvard, '24g Ph.D., '29, Instructor in French at Harvard, 1924-26. Appointed Instructor in French at Amherst, 1926-305 Assistant Professor, 1930-. Twenty-four

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1 if 163' lr I' 11' ll'n ,! 1' 11- g' . it HARRY DE FOREST SMITH, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Phi Beta Kappa Class of 1880 Professor of Greek. B.A., Bowdoin, '9lp A.M., Harvard, '96g M,A., Amherst, '12, Taught at Rockland, Maine, 1891-1895. Graduate Work at Harvard, 1895-96, and at the University of Berlin, 1896-97. Instructor in Greek at the University of Pennsylvania, 1897-98. Instructor in Ancient Language, Bow- doin, 1898-995 Assistant Professor of Greek, 1899-1901. Associate Professor ot Greek, Amherst, 1901-037 Professor of Greek, 1903-. THEODORE SOLLER, Gamma Alpha, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa Assistant Professor of Physics. B.A., Oberlin, '22g M.A., University of Wisconsin, '24g Ph.D., '3l. Graduate Assistant in Physics, University of Wisconsin, 1923-25 In structor in Physics, 1925-28. Appointed Instructor in Physics at Amherst 1928-31p Assistant Professor, 1931-. ATI-IERTON HALL SPRAGUE, Delta Upsilon Associate Professor of Mathematics. B.A., Amherst, '20g M.A., Princeton, '23, Instructor in Mathematics at Amherst, 1920-22. Graduate Work at Prince- ton, 1922-23. Instructor in Mathematics, Amherst, 1923-24. Graduate work at Princeton, 1924-25. Instructor in Mathematics, Amherst, 1925-26. Associate Professor, 1926-. Dean of Freshmen, 1928-33. WILLARD HARRIS STEARNS, Alpha Delta Phi Instructor in French. B.A., Amherst, '32p M. A., Columbia, '33. Assistant d'Anglois at Nimes, France, 1933-34. WILLIAM WARREN STIFLER, Gamma Alpha, Sigma Xi Professor of Physics. Twenty-three B.A., Shurtleff College, '02, M.A., University of Illinois, '08g Ph.D., ll. Fellow in Physics, University of Illinois, 1906-07, and 1910-11. Professor of Chemistry and Physics, Ewing College, 1902-06. Instructor in Physics, Columbia University, 1911-17. Head of Department of Physics and Dean of Pre-medical School, Peking Union Medical College, China, 1917-22. Visiting Professor of Physics, Canton Christian College, China, 1922-23. Research study, Harvard, 1923-24. Acting Professor of Physics, Williams, 1924-25. As- sociate Professor of Physics, Amherst, 1925-315 Professor, 1931-. Fellow of American Physical Society and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Author of articles on Physics in the Physical Re- view and other scientific iournals. 1 5 uf-I I 1, - gp: 1 L 5. I 1

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COLSTON ESTEY WARNE, Kappa Delta Rho, Artus Associate Professor of Economics. B.A., Cornell. '2Og M.A., '2lg Ph.D., University of Chicago, '25. Instructor in Economics at Cornell, 1920-21: University of Pittsburgh, 1921-22. Assistant in Economics at the University of Chicago, 1922-25. As- sociate Professor of Economics, University of Denver, 1925-26. Assistant Pro- fessor of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, 1926-29. Associate Professor of Economics, Amherst, 1930-. Author: The Consumers' Cooperative Movement in lllinois, 1926. ALFRED GEORGE WHEELER, Phi Delta Theta Associate Professor of Physical Education. B.A., Oberlin, '22. Instructor and Coach at Manual Arts High School, Los Angeles, California 1923-24. At Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, 1925-26. Instructor in Physical Education at Amherst, 1927-295 Associate Professor, 1929-. GEORGE FRISBIE WHICHER, Theta Delta Chi, Phi Beta Kappa Samuel Williston Professor of English. B.A., Amherst, '1Oy M.A., Columbia, '11, Ph.D., 'l5. University Scholar in English, Columbia, 1911-127 University Fellow, 1913. Instructor in English, University of Illinois, 1913. Associate Professor of Eng- lish, Amherst, 1915-225 Professor, 1922-. Editor of the Amherst Graduate Quarterly, 1919-32. ' ROBERT BYRON WHITNEY, Delta Upsilon, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma X1 Phi Lambda Upsilon Assistant Professor of Chemistry. B.A., University of Minnesota, '24p Ph.D., '27, Research Assistant and Instructor in Chemistry at the University of Mm nesota, 1927-28. Instructor in Chemistry, Northwestern University, summer session, 1928. Instructor in Organic Chemistry and Research, Harvard and Radcliffe, 1928-30. Instructor in Chemistry at Amherst, 1930-. Member of the American Chemical Society and of the American Association for the Ad vancement of Science. RALPH COPLESTONE WILLIAMS, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Beta Kappa Professor of French. B.A., Iohns Hopkins, 'O8p Ph.D., '17, Twenty-five Instructor in French, Ohio State University, 1918-19, Assistant Professor, 1919-21. Assistant Professor of French, Iohns Hopkins, 1921-25. Associate Professor of French at Amherst, 1925-27, Professor, 1927-. Author: The Theory of the Heroic Epic in Italian Criticism of the Sixteenth Century, Chicago, 19207 The Simplified Essentials of First Year French, 1924, A Bibliography of the Seventeenth Century' Novel in France, 1931, The Merveilleux in the Epic, 1925. Articles in Romantic Review, Modern Philology, Modern Lan- guage Notes.