Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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Vol. LIII, 1910 I5 EDWARD l lI'l'CHCOCK, A Jw, Parmly Billings Professor of Hy- giene and Physical Education. B. A., Amherst, '49, M. A., Amherst, '52, M. D. Harvard, '53, LL.D., Amherst, '99. Born at Amherst, Massachusetts, May 23, 1828. Prepared for college at Amherst Academy and Willis- ton Seminary. Graduated at Amherst, 1849. Taught Natural Sciences and Elocution in Williston Seminary, 1853-61, when he was called to Amherst. Dean of Faculty, Amherst College, since 1898. Spent one year abroad, studying under Professor Owen, ol' the British Museum. Member of the National Council ol' the American Association for the Advancement of Physical lfducation, also has been a member of the Massa- chusetts State Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity since 1879. Trustee of Mt. Holyoke College and of Williston Seminary. Doctor Hitchcock was one of the leaders in founding our present system of anthro- pometric measurements, a system which, originating in Amherst College, has now been adopted by many colleges and universities in this country. Has published during the last thirty years, many lectures and pamphlets bearing upon Pbysiral Statzirizrt, flntbropometry and Ht'altlJ Condition: of .f'1mlJvr.vt Students. BENJAMIN KHNDALI. EMERSON, A A 01, IP I3 lt' , Hitchcock Professor of' Mineralogy and Geology. B.A., Amherst, '65, Pl1.D., University ol'Gottingen 367 Born at Nashua, New Hampshire, December 20, 1843. Prepared for college at the Nashua High School and at 'liilton QNew Hampshire, Seminary. Graduated from Amherst, 1865. Studied at Gottingen 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 Philosophi- cal Society, American Geographical Society, Wash- ington 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 Geolog- ical Congress at St. Petersburg, 1897. President of American Geological Society, 1899. Author ofillflinrral Lvxiron of Old New Ilamp- .rl21r1'Counfy, Geology of Oli! I'lI11I1l7.flJl.1'l' County, Gmfogrimf dlaps of Hanzpflmz, f:Ianzp.vbz'rf and l'i7'll7lA'!l.7l Courzffftr, Thr' Trias of ll1ar:z1fbu.ff1t.r, Thr- Geology of l!l1Sf1'7'Tl lferlcxfairr, The Geology of Eastern Rlvodflslzlrzd, together with many shorter geological works, and of The G1'm'alogy of flu' Enu'r.von Fnrrzffy.

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. . . 3 . 1 1-' f 7 1 . 'D Q A 'V TS Z N 1' 1 4 mf 46 4. QNX ?W77 X-:sf I 4' YVPWYI 'Tv lwfg Ni 1... - ' gf. Q .'?f l' igdlllllufb r Z 'X . s' - 'fr-2 ' 2 1-9, - E f 7 ' 1 ' ' ' ' . F P 18-- Merle were be Jfacultp Gieonori l'iARRIS, A J fb , fb If li' , President. li. A., Amherst, '66, D. D., Amherst, '83, D. ll., Harvard, ,QQQ Ll,.lJ., Dartmouth, '99, llll, Yale,'o1. Born at liast Machias, lVlaine. Prepared for col- V lege at Washington Academy in his native town. Grad- uated from Amherst, 1866. Studied a year in the Theological Seminary at Bangor and then went to Andover, where he was graduated in 1869. Soon after his graduation from Andover he accepted a call to the High Street Congregational Church at Auburn, lVlaine. ln 1872 he became pastor ofthe Central Congregational Church of Providence, R. l., where he remained until I 1883, when he hecame Ahhot Professor ol' Christian Theology in Andover Seminary. At this time he became one of the editors of the Andover Rl UI'I'7.U and in 1896 published a hook on flflnrul lffuoluflmz, and in 1897 lnfqunlily nm! l'z-ogravx. ln 1887, in connection with the organist of his church in Providence and l,l'CSlClL'l1lf 'l'ucker, he published Hymnr of liar l m'rlJ, which was in 1891 re-edited, condensed, and adapted to the use of students. For many years he was one of the college preachers at Dartmouth and Harvard. l-le was called to the presidency of Amherst in 1899,

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16 The AMHERSTOLIO JOHN MASON TYLER, W V, Ill I3 lf, Stone Professor of Biology. B.A., Amherst, '73, Ph.D., Colgate, '88. Born at Amherst, Massachusetts, May 18, 1851. Prepared for college at the High School and at Williston Seminary. Graduated from Amherst College, 1873. Taught in Phillips Academy, 1874. Studied at Union Theological Seminary, 1874-76, at Gottingen Univer- sity, Germany, 1876-78, at University of Leipsie, Ger- many, 1878-79. Professor of Biology at Amherst Col- lege since 1879. Author of Wbenfc and WlJz'tbnr of Man, 1895, Growth and Education, 1907, Man in tba' Light of E-vofution, 1908. DAVID Toon, 0 B K, Sidney Dillon Professor of Astronomy and Navigation, Director of the Observatory, and Secretary of the Faculty. B.A., Amherst, '75, M.A., Amherst, '78, Ph.D., Washington and Jefferson, '87. Born at Lake Ridge, New York, March 19, 1855. Student at Columbia College, 1870-1872. 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 Assist- ant in office of the American Epbemeris and Naut1'cal Almanac. Accepted the chair ofAstronomy and Higher Mathematics, Smith College, 1882. Conducted the observation ofthe transit of Venus at the Lick Observa- tory, Mount Hamilton, California, 1882. Took charge of the Solar Eclipse Expedition to Japan, 1887. Ap- pointed chiefofthe Government Eclipse Expeditions to West Africa, 1889-90. Direc- tor of Amherst Eclipse Expeditions to Japan, 1896, to Tripoli, Barbar, 1900, to the Dutch East lndies, 1901, and to Tripoli, 1905. Member of the Boston Authors' Club, the Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America, and of the Washing- ton Philosophical Society, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, member of the Astronomische Gesellschaft of Germany, and correspond- ing member of the Societe, Nationale des Sciences Naturelles et Mathematiques de Cherbourg, France and of the Society of Arts, London. Contributor of numerous articles and papers to popular magazines and scientific journals. Founder and editor of The Columbian Knowledge Series, 1893-97, author of articles in the Naval Cyclopfa'1'a, 1881, Amcriran Telescopes, in the Encyclopedia Britannica, 1888, also of the following books: A Nair' Astronomy, 1897, Stars and Telcsaopes, 1899, Ncpszeru Csillagaszat fPopular Astronomyj, published at Budapest, Hungary, IQOI, and Lessons in Astronomy, 1902. Designed and erected the new observatory at Amherst, 1906, Head of Lowell Expedition to the Andes, 1907, observations of Mars.