Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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18 THE OL10 .' VOL. XLVIII 1'I1eN1zY 13U1,r,ARD RIC11AR1JSON, AMD, WM, Professor of German Languzqqe amz' Liieraiure B.A., Amherst, '69, M.A., Amherst, '72 Born in Franklin, Massachusetts, May 21, 18-I-1. Fitted for college at Phillips-Andover Academy and Phillips- Exeter Academy. Graduated from Amherst College, 1809. Instructor in Latin and Greek in Amherst College, 1869-78. Classical teacher, Springfield High School, 18721-76. Studied Philology in the University of Leipsic, Germany, 1876-78. Instructor in Latin, Amherst Col- lege, 1878-79. Assistant Professor of Latin and Instructor in German, 1879-82. Professor of German since 1882. Has prepared a glossary to Lessing's Emilia Galotti, and assisted Professor Crowell in preparing an edition of Cicero's 't De Senectute and De Amicitiaf' Translated and edited Bender's Grundriss der Roemischen Literaturgeschichte, 1872. -IOIIN NIASON 'iqYL1iR, 'lf'l', fblflf, Slow Professor o Biofogy . B.A., Amherst, '72lg Ph.D., Colgate, '88 Born at Amherst, Massachusetts, May 18, 1851. Pre- pared for college at the High School and at Williston Seminary. Graduated from Amherst College, 1873. Taught at Phillips Academy, 187-1. Studied at Union Theological Seminary, 187-fl-765 at Goettingen University, Germany, 1876-78, at University of Leipsic, Germany, 1878-751. Professor of Biology at Amherst College since 18751. Author of Whence and Whither of Man, 1895. CuA1zi,1cs limvixlzn GARMAN, Will, Professor of 1Wmia! amz' fllorol Phifosojnky B.A., Amherst, '72, M.A., Amherst, '80g B.D., Yale Theological Seminary, '79, D.D., Amherst, '96 Born at Limington, Maine. December 18, 1850. Pre- pared for college at the Athol High School, Athol, Massachusetts. Entered Amherst College, 1869, and graduated, 1872. Principal of the Ware High School, 1872-75. Student of Theology in the Yale Theological Seminary, 1876-79, taking Hooker Fellowship. Called to Amherst as Walker Instructor in Mathematics, 1820. Instructor in Philosophy, Amherst College, 1881-82. Associate Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy, Amherst College, 1882-89. Professor of Mental Philosophy, Amherst College, 18851-9-1. Professor of Mental and Moral Phil- osophy, Amherst College, since 1894.

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AIIIIIERST COLLEGE 17 ISBN-iA1xr11N K14:Nn.x1.1. I2ii1a1tsoN, .-I..I41,1l1l!li', Ilzlchcack fJl'0fL'.f5lI7' rj fifl'7ZL'l'd'f0g:jf arm' Geolzgjf B.A., Amherst, '65g Ph.D., University of Goettin- gen, '67 Born at Nashua, New Hampshire, December 20, 1843. Prepared for college at the Nashua High School and at Tilton 1New Hampshirei Seminary. Graduated from Amherst, 1865. Studied at Goettingen University until 1868: at Berlin University, 1869. Appointed Professor of Mineralogy and Geology at Amherst, 1870. Member of the German Geological Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society: American Geographical Society, Washington Academy of Science. On the United States Geological Survey since 1883. Vice-President of the American Association for the Advancement of Arts and Sciences, 1896. Elected Vice- President of the Geological Congress at St. Petersburg, 1897. President of American Geological Society, 1899. Author of Mineral Lexicon of Old Hampshire County, Geology of Old Hampshire County, Geological Maps of Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin Counties, The Trias of Massachu- setts, The Geology of Eastern Berkshire, t' The Geology of Eastern Rhode Island, together with many shorter mineralogical works, and of The Genealogy of the Emerson Family. Literature, 1889-1903. 1903. tory, Amherst College Amherst College, 1878. 1892. Risv. HEMAN I-IUMPHREY NEILL, A.J41,fl1Ifln', Wz7!z'stwz l r0fe.m1r of Eflglzlvh LZ'f6'l'l7f1l7'I3 B.A., Amherst, '66, M.A., Amherst, '69 Born in Hatfield, Massachusetts, August 28, 1824. Prepared for college with C. F. Soldan, Detroit, Michi- gan, and Rev. Charles Ray, Geneseo, New York. Graduated from Amherst, 18665 Princeton Theological Seminary, 1869. Ordained at Fort Edward, New York, 1 69, and pastor of Presbyterian Church, 1869-74. Pro- fessor of Rhetoric, Oratory and English Literature in Amherst College, 1874-85. Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, 1885-89. Professor of English Appointed Emeritus Professor of English Literature, ANSON DANIEL IWORSE, Jlflf, fblflf, Winkley Pf'ofc.r.s'or of l1l'.S'f07'1' B.A., Amherst, '71, M.A., Amherst, '7-lg LL.D., Union, '95 Born at Cambridge, Vermont, 18-16. Prepared for college at Johnson Academy and at the St. Albans Union School. Entered Amherst College, 1866. Graduated with thc class of 1871. Spent the first year after gradu- ation in Europe. Taught in Williston Seminary, 1872- 75. Studied at the University of Heidelberg, 1875-76. Lecturer on Political Economy, Amherst College, 1876. Professor of Political Economy and Instructor in His- , 1877. Professor of History and Political Science, Winkley Professor of History, Amherst College, since

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AXIIHERST CULLEGE 19 DAVID 'I1ODD, 41lHu', Sz'a'm'y Dfflofz Prfyfexxor of Astrolzoffgg IJI'7'L'L'f0l' of Ike Obserflafvry amz' Scrreiary of me Farzzllfy B.A., Amherst, '75g M.A., Amherst, '78g Ph.D., Washington and Jefferson, 87 Born at Lake Ridge, New York, March 19, 1855. Stu- dent at Columbia College, 1871-73. Graduated from Amherst College, 1875. Appointed Assistant to the United States Transit of Venus Commission, 1875. Sent by the Government to Dallas, Texas, to observe the solar eclipse, 1878. Later, appointed Chief Assistant in ollice of the flmcrican Eplzw1w1'i.v and Af'aulimZf1lma11ac. Accepted the chair of Astronomy at Amherst College, 1881. Appointed Professor of Astronomy and Higher Mathematics, Smith College, 1882. Conducted the observation of the transit of Venus at the Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, California, 1882. Took charge of the Solar Eclipse Expedition to Japan, 1887. Appointed Chief of the Government Eclipse Expedition to West Africa, 1889-90. Director of Amherst Eclipse Expeditions to Japan, 18965 to Tripoli, Barbary, 19003 and to the Dutch East Indies, 1901. Member of the Boston Authors' Club, the Astro- nomical and Astrophysical Society of America, and of the Washington Philo- sophical Societyg Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Scienceg member of the Astronomische Gesellschaft of Germany, and corres- ponding member of the Societe Nationale des Sciences Naturelles et Mathe- matiques de Cherbourg, France. Contributor of numerous articles and papers to popular magazines and scientific journals. Founder and editor of The Columbian Knowledge Series. 1893-973 author of articles in the Naval Cyclo- pedia, 18815 American Telescopes. in the Encyclopedia Britannica, 18889 also of the following hooks: A New Astronomy, 18973 Stars and Telescopes, 1899, Nepszerii Csillaginszatf' tPopular Astronomyl, published at Budapest, Hungary, 19013 and Lessons in Astronomy, 1902. Designed and erected the new observatory, 1903. .lol-IN FRANKLIN C1liNUNG, JV, 4'lfh', l'1vy'c.vs.vr of Rheforfr , B.A., Union, '703 M.A. and Ph.D., Leipsic, 'Sl Born January 27, 1850, in Tioga County, New York. Prepared for college at Owego tNew Yorkj Academy. Was graduated at Union College, 1870. Taught school at Mechanicsville. New York. 1870-725 then entered Rochester Theological Seminary, where he was gradu- ated in 1875. Pastor of Baptist Church, Baldwinsville, New York, 1875-78. Studied at University of Leipsic, 1878-81, graduating with degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. Associate Professor and Professor of Rhetoric, Amherst College, since 1882. Member of Authors' Club and of Society of Biblical Liter- ature and Exegesis. Author of Study of Tennyson's 'In Memoriam,' 18833 Practical Elements of Rhetoric, 18895 Rhetorical Analysis, 18885 Study of Rhetoric in the College Course, 18883 't The Epic of the Inner Life: A Study of the Book of Job, 18903 Outlines of Rhetoric, 18933 What a Carpenter did with His Bible, 18983 The Passing of Self, 1899g Working Principles of Rhe oric,', 19015 Stevenson's Attitude to Life, 19013 Ecclesiastes and Omar Khayyam,'1 1901.