University of Rhode Island - Renaissance / Grist Yearbook (Kingston, RI)

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3 f)obe Sslanb )§ tate College Corporation Hon. Zenas W. Bliss Hon. Robert S. Burlingame Hon. Charles Estes Hon. Thomas G. Mathewson Hon. B. Frank Robinson Hon. Walter E. Ranger Hon. Philip A. Money Providence County Newport County Bristol County Kent County Washington County State Commissioner of Schools, ex-officio Member of State Board of Agriculture Officers; of tfjc Corporation Hon. Walter E. Ranger, President Hon. Zenas W. Bliss, Vice-President Hon. Robert S. Burlingame, Clerk and Treasurer Providence Providence Newport

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prologue - ollotoing tbe custom of prebious pears, toe, tbe (Class of 1916, babe unbertaben ttje task of compiling a boob, tbe cbief purpose of tobicb is to present, in an attractibe form, a recorb of tfje college pear, perhaps none can realise better ttjan tfjose of us tobo babe belpeb in tbis toorb. tbe numerous bifficulties tobicb must be obercome to at least maintain tbe stanbarb estab= lisbeb bp precebing classes. 3)f toe babe bone onlp tbis, toe sball feel tbat our time bas been toell spent. 3lf tbe boob boes not meet toitb pour approbal toe are sincerelp sorrp. iln anp case, toe can trutbfullp state tbat no effort bas been spareb to mabe bolume nineteen of tbe 0rist one tobicb sball bo justice to tbe class anb to 3i bobe Ilslanb £ tate College.

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ACOLTY Howard Edwards, A. M., LL. D President h K l ; 4 K2; A. M., Randolph-Macon College, 1876; Student, University of Leipzig, 1877-1878; Student in Paris, 1878; Teacher, Bethel Academy, Virginia, 1878-1880; Teacher, Bingham School, North Carolina, 1880-1882; Acting Principal of Bethel Academy, Virginia, 1882-1884; Principal, Tuscumbia Academy, Alabama, 1884- 1885; Professor of English and Modern Languages, University of Arkansas, 1885- 1890; Professor of English and Modern Languages, Michigan Agricultural Col- lege, 1890-1906; LL.D., University of Arkansas, 1891; Leave of absence in France and England, 1891-1892; Entered upon duties as President, July 1, 1906; LL. D., Brown University, 1914. Burt Laws Hartwell, Ph. D Professor of Agricultural Chemistry CSC; 22; 1 K 1 ; B. S., Massachusetts Agricultural College and Boston University, 1889; M. S., Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1900; Ph. D., University of Penn- sylvania, 1903; Appointed First Assistant Chemist, R. I. Experiment Station, 1891; Appointed Associate Chemist, 1903; Professor of Agricultural Chemistry, 1908; Ap- pointed Director, December, 1912. Harriet Lathrop Merrow, A. M Professor of Botany and Secretary of the Faculty B. S., Wellesley College, 1886; Teacher of Science, Plymouth High School, 1887- 1888; Teacher of Science, Harcourt Place, Bambier, O., 1888-1891; Graduate Student, University of Michigan, 1891-1892; A. M., Wellesley College, 1893; Assistant, Botan- ical Laboratory, University of Michigan, 1893-1894; Appointed Professor of Botany, January, 1895. Virgil Louis Leighton, Ph.D Professor of Chemistry A T A • I B K ; I K l ; A. B., Tufts College, 1894; A. M., Kansas State University, 1895; Ph. D., Tufts College, 1897; Instructor in Organic Chemistry, Tufts College, 1897-1901; Appointed Associate Professor of Chemistry, 1901; Professor, 1903. John Barlow, A.M Professor of Zoology A T; t B K; [ K I ; B. S., Middlebury College, 1895; A. M., Brown University, 1896; Assistant Biologist, R. I. Experiment Station, 1898; Professor of Biology, Fairmount College, 1898-1901; Appointed Professor of Zoology, 1901. Marshall Henry Tyler, B. S Professor of Mathematics 0 A X ' B. S., Amherst College, 1897; Instructor at St. Mark’s, 1897-1898; Ap- pointed Master of the Preparatory School, 1898; Professor of Mathematics, 1906. George Edward Adams, B. S Professor of Agriculture B S R I. College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, 1894; Student, Cornell Uni- versity, 1897 and 1899-1901; Assistant in Horticulture, R. I. Experiment Station, 1895-1901; .Assistant in Agriculture, 1901-1906; Associate in Agronomy, 1906; State Statistical Agent, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1901; Appointed Professor of Agriculture, 1907. 9