Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Technique Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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fi B QWIED GME 13 Y ECHNIQUE 1911 wishes to offer heartfelt thanks to the many who haveaided in the publication of this annual. The task has been no slight one, and all encouragement and help have been greatly appreciated. Particularly do the editors Wish to acknowledge the kind assistance of the following people:- IN GENERAL hir. I. YV. Litchfield, Professor Arlo Bates, Professor H. G. Pearson, Professor H. L. Seaver, Mr. S. E. Gideon, hir. F. lXI. Gracey, Nfr. lX'I. R. Scharff, and the University Press. LITERARY Frank hlaurice Kanaly, Harvey Smith Benson, 1912, Mark Adolph Oettinger, 1912, Eugene Leland lwacdonald, 1913, and all who contributed to the Grind Department. ARTISTIC Raynor Huntington Allen, 1909, John Frank Alter, 1911, John Taylor Arms, 1911, John Leonard Bagg, 1911, Philip VVeeks Burnham, 1910, Kenneth Earle Carpenter, 1909, Charles Cameron Clark, 1910, VValter Sizvindell Davis, 1910, Gurdon Irving Edgerton, 19192, Stafford Allen Francis, 1911, Margaret Alexina Fulton, 1911, Henry Orange Glidden, 1913, Louis Grandgent, 1911, William Edward Haugaard, 1910, Benjamin Shuman Hirschfeld, 1911, Harold Eric Kebbon, 1912, lVIark Curtis Kinney, 1911, Edward Herman Kruckemeyer, 1911, VVilliam Henry March, 1910, Charles Henry Mills, 1910, Frederick Dorr Rich, 1913, Charles Raymond Strong, 1911, John Henry Scarff, 1910, Kurt Vonnegut, 1908. PHOTOGRAPHIC The ofhcial photographer for TECHNIQUE 1911 was Marceau, 160 Tremont Street. Portrait of Professor Cross by Notman. Pictures of Technology Reunion by Notman and Richard Stuart Bicknell, 1910. Pict- ures of Civil Engineering Summer School by Alexander VVoodWard Yere- ance, 1911, and Ralph Earle Runels, 1911. Pictures of N. E. I. A. A. Meet by Williani Somers, of I. C. A. A. A. A. Cross-Country Race by Daniel Quinn, and of Field Day by Prof. H. YV. Smith. E81

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0 5 - J ORN in Troy, New York, lVIarch 29, 18118, and brought up in Newburyport, lVIassachusetts, the family home for gen- erations, Charles Robert Cross developed in early child- hood that fondness for science and experiment which was to determine his life-work and to dominate his whole career. As a child, he showed this fondness by his interest in natural history. During his boyhood, however, he turned his attention to physics, some of his youthful experiments in this science resulting in consternation to his parents and in no small degree of surprise to himself. He entered the Putnam Free School in Newburyport in the autumn of 1862, and graduated from it when seventeen years of age. He continued here for a part of the next year as a teacher, and then taught for a year in the High School in New London, Connecticut. During this time he prepared himself to enter the second year of the Institute. It was an address by Dr. Jacob Bigelow before the Society of Arts on the Limits of Educationi' which chiefly determined young Cross to enter Technology rather than the Lawrence Scientific School. Furthermore, the Institute prospectus, supplemented by an inter- view with President Rogers, made it clear that he could obtain the education in physics which he desired here and nowhere else in the country. He accordingly entered in the fall of 1867. During his senior year at Technology, Cross acted as a student assistant to Professor Bocher of the Department of lVIodern Lan- guages. . A' Graduating in 1870, he assumed the duties of an Instructor in Physics. From this position he rose rapidly until, seven years after graduation, he was put in charge of the Department of Physics when Professor Pickering resigned to take charge of the Harvard College Observatory. In the summer of 1873 he was married to Miss lVIariana Pike, of Salisbury, Massaclitisetts, who died in June, 1900, leaving one son, Charles Robert Cross, J r. It was due to the efforts of Professor Cross that the Department of Electrical Engineering was established at the Institute in 1882. E91