Adelphi University - Oracle Yearbook (Garden City, NY)

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William Phelps Macfarlane Born in New York City ; prepared at Brooklyn Polytechnic and Fair- child's Academy, Flushing, X. Y.; studied vocal expression and dramatic interpretation with Mr. David Bclasco and Professor Alfred Young for seven years; came to Adelphi in 1895; Dramatic Instructor at the Poly- technic Institute and the Boys’ High School, Brooklyn, and at Williams College; Assistant Professor of Oratory and Expression at Adelphi Col- lege. Alice Blythe Tucker, B.A., M.A. Born in Canada; received degrees of B.A. and M.A. from Toronto University in 96 and 1900; studied at the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Oxford University; Preceptress and Teacher, State Normal School, Edinboro, Penn.; Member of American Historical Association, Women’s University Club of New York City; in 1902 appointed Dean of Women Students in Adelphi College. Instructors Louise Botii-IIendrickson Born in West Indies. Studied in America, England, Holland, France; taught in Packer Collegiate Institute, Smith College, Vassar Col- lege; Instructor in History of Art in Adelphi College. Freda M. Brunn, B.A. Born in Brooklyn, X. Y.; studied in Hamburg, Germany; graduated from Adelphi Academy, ’88; graduated from Teachers’ College, N. Y., ’97, and from Adelphi College, 99; Instructor in Psychology in Adelphi Col- lege.

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. John Firman Coar, M.A., Ph.D. Born in Berlin, Germany; studied at the Kaiser Wilhelm Gymnasium, Cologne, Germany, ’84; University of Bonn, ’84-’85; graduated from Harvard, 96; received degree of Ph.D. from the same University, ’99; Instructor in Modern Languages, Park Institute, Pittsburg, Pa., ’90-92; Principal Canandaigua Academy, ’93-95; Instructor at Harvard, 1896- 1903; Author of “Studies in German Literature in the Nineteenth Cen- tury” ; Professor of German Language and Literature in Adelphi College. William A. R. Kerr, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Born Toronto, Ontario; 1899, B.A., University of Toronto; 1899- 1901, Master of Modern Languages in Upper Canada College. Toronto; 1901, M.A., University of Toronto; 1902, A.M., Harvard University; 1902-1903, traveled in Europe and studied at the University of Paris, and under Gaston Paris at the “Ecole des Hautes Etudes; 1904, Ph.D., Har- vard University; 1904, appointed Professor of French in Adelphi College. Charles Bell Burke, B.L., A.B., Ph.D., K 2 Born in Tennessee; graduated from Vanderbilt, ’89; graduated from Harvard, 91; Professor of English in the Southwestern Baptist Univer- sity, Jackson, Tennessee, '92-’99; Fellow in English Literature at Cornell, ?99-’oi; received degree of Ph.D. from Cornell in 1901 ; studied at the University of Chicago the summer of 1898; Editor of Literature on the New International Encyclopaedia, 1902-03: Professor of English in Adel- phi College. Louise Charvet, B.S. Born near Lyons. France. Studied at the Lycee of Lyons; at the Lycee Fenelon, Paris; studied at the Sarbourne, Paris; taught in London and Liverpool, England; in London took a course in the Gonin method of teaching languages; Assistant Professor of the French Language and Literature in Adelphi College.

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Frances H. Flagler Born in Brooklyn, N. Y.; studied at Adelphi, also at Anderson Nor- mal Sehooi, '91; Harvard Summer School, 94; Columbia, ’02; University of New York, ’03: taught at Adelphi since 1892; Instructor in Physical Culture. L. Leland Locke, B.A., M.A. Born in Grove City, Pa.; graduated from Grove City College, ’96, and received M.A. from same College in 19CO; graduate student at Pennsyl- vania State College, '96- 97; taught in West Sunbury Academy, at Fre- donia Teachers’ Institute, and Michigan State College ; Instructor in Ap- plied Mathematics in Adelphi College. Nellie L. Roetiigen Born in Hoboken; graduate of Hoboken Academy; graduate of Os- wego Normal School ; Instructor in first year primary work in Froebel Academy, Brooklyn, for six years; Instructor in connecting class work at Adelphi since 1898; in Pedagogical Department in Methods since 1899; Author of “Nature Work in the Connecting Class” ; Instructor in Kinder- garten Normal Course, Adelphi College. Edwin Platt Tanner, B.A., M.A., B 0 77, B K Born in Paterson, N. J.; studied at Columbia University; graduated in ’97; received degree of M.A. from Columbia in '98; Instructor in His- tory in the High School, Stillwater, Minnesota, and in Syracuse Univer- sity; Instructor in History in Adelphi College.