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Irving Stringham It is our sad but honored duty to make mention of the loss to the University of one whose talents and services to our community hardly leave the hope that they will ever be replaced. In the death of Professor Stringham we feel that our loss is more than keen, it is irreparable. Not only to his family, but to those few who were so fortunate as to have his intimate friend- ship, to the larger academic circle, whom he inspired by the profound genius of attainments, to the State as a whole, his departure from this life brings the keenest sorrow. Professor Stringham was born in Dela- van, X. Y., 011 December 10, 1847. He began his collegiate studies at Washburn College, Topeka, Kan., from 1866 to 1873, and then went to Harvard University, where he was graduated in 1877 with the degree of A. 15. In 1880 he received the degree of Ph.D. from John Hopkins University, and later studied in Europe. While at Harvard he devoted himself especially to Mathematics, having the good fortune to come under the influence of the late ISenjamin Pierce, the greatest mathematician that America had produced up to this time. At graduation he was awarded highest honors in mathematics, for which he prepared his Investigation in Quaternions, published in the proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1878. He was then appointed Fellow in Mathematics at the newly-founded John Hopkins University, where he spent three years in study under the celebrated Syl- vester, proceeding to the degree of Ph.D. in 1880. At the close of his studies at the John Hopkins University, he was appointed to a traveling fellowship from Harvard, and spent the two years in Germany, studying at Leipsic, under Professor Felix Klein, the most brilliant of living German mathematicians. Professor Stringham had already become interested in questions touching the logical foundations of geometry, and had published a brilliant investigation of the regular bodies in higher space. Professor Klein recently wrote, I always considered that Stringham was endowed with a unique talent for geometry, and that he came to the front in a most remarkable way in his first paper on the regular bodies in 26
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space of dimensions. a judgment which only confirms that of his students and colleagues of the department. With such an equipment, indeed the best of any man at that time, was Professor Stringham called to the professorship of mathematics in this University in 1882. He found but a narrow field for his talents and mathe- matics occupying a position that was but little more than a name. Xo opportunities for original research whatever existed. But with far-seeing wisdom he beheld the possibilities of the Western University. Patiently and Ititelv he set to work, not only to develop his own department, but to aid in shaping the larger destinies of the college itself. His possession of the two most essential requisites needed for such work, constructive and admin istrative powers, made his connection with the University a unique bit of d fortune. It is here that we learn of Professor Stringham ' s real services to the University of California. From the start to the very day of his death, he was the leader in every movement in the development of this institution, daily in the creation of opportunities for research work. As early as 1887. in company with President Holden and Professor i afterwards President) Kellogg, he proposed the establishment of a college of pure science, very largely on the lines of the present College of Natural Science. The scheme of this committee involved also the principle of the group elective, resulting in the establishment, six years later, of the Colleges -al Sciences and of Natural Science. By this time Professor String- ham was ready for the next step the merging of the three Colleges of Let- ters. Social Sciences, and Natural Science, but although he died before this was accomplished, its attainment seems at hand, so similar have the curricula :he three colleges become. Professor Haskell. one of his colleagues and closest friends, paid the following tribute to his unselfishness : While it is true that all this active work of administration interfered seriously with his special work in mathematics, and must, therefore, have involved a heroic sacrifice of his splendid talents as an investigator, he was always able to put himself philosophically aside and devote the best that was in him to whatever work he might be called upon to perform. Care- less of the fame that might have easily been his. he gave himself freely and generously to the work of co-operation with others in the task of building this University a task which, like virtue in general, is its own reward ; for while universities live and become renowned, the names of the men who have built them are written in water. Professor Stringham had a personality not easily susceptible of analysis. Perhaps his most perceptible, we had almost said striking, characteristic, was that of unconscious simplicity. His bearing was marked by that unobstrusive- ness. that was so clearly associated with Lincoln.
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