Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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Vol. LIII, 1910 17 JOHN FRANKLIN GIENUNG, .1 .It', fll I3 K, Professor of Literary' and Biblical Interpretation. B.A., Union, '70, M.A. and Ph.D., Leipsic, '81, D.D., Yale, 'o5. Born january 27, 1850, in Tioga County, New York. Prepared for college at Oswego fNew Yorkj Academy. Was graduated at Union College, 1870. Taught school at Mechanicsville, New York, 1870-72, then entered Rochester Theological Seminary, where he was graduated in 1875. Pastor of Baptist Church, Baldwinsville, New York, 1875-78. Studied at Uni- versity of Leipsic, 1878-81, graduating with degrees ofA.M. and Ph.D. Associate Professor and Professor of Rhetoric, Amherst College, 1882-1906, since then Professor of Literary and Biblical Interpretation. Member of Authors' Club and of Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis. Author of Study of Tenny- 5on'.r In M?mOTl.H77l,li 18833 Praetieal Element: of Rhetorir, 1886, Rhetorieal Anafyrix, 1888, Study of Rhetoric in the College Courre, 1888, The Epic of the Inner Lifeg A Study ofthe Book of fob, 1890, Outline: of Rhetorie, 1893, What a Carpenter Did with I'Ii.r Bible, 1898, The Parrzlng of Self, 1899, Workzing Prineipler of Rhetorif, IQOIQ Ste-ven.von'.r Attitude to Life, IQOIQ Eeele- .ria.rte.r and Omar Khayyam, 1901, Worzlr of Kohelethg A Study of and Commentary on the Book of Errleriartex, 1904, The Hebrew Literature of Hqrdorng 19063 The Idyll: and The Ages, I907. VVILLIAM LYMAN COWLES, J K E, 10 B K, Professor of Latin. l3.A., Amherst, '78, M.A., Amherst, '8I. Born at Belchertown, Massachusetts, April II, 1856. Fitted for college at Monson Academy and Wil- liston Seminary. Entered Amherst College in 1874- Taught Latin, French and English in the Roxbury Latin School, 1879-80. Instructor of Latin in Amherst, 1880-83. Spent one year at Berlin University, Gottin- gen, and Leipsic, Germany, and in travel in Italy. Associate Professor of Latin in Amherst, 1886-94. Lecturer on Latin Literature in Smith College, 1886- 94. Travelled for study of places connected with Latin Literature, 1891. Professor of Latin, Amherst College, since 1894. Traveled in Europe and studied at Rome, 1898. Taught Latin in Smith College, 1900. Member American Philological Society. Member New England .Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools, and of the Managing Committee of the American School at Rome. Member' ' x . H blish d Abxtraet of Lecture: of the Board of Trustees of Monson Academy as pu ' e on Topirr Conneeted with the Latin Language: Adelphoe of lerenre, 18963 Selee- tion: from Poems' of Catullur, 1900, and many articles for magazines and periodicals. Travelled in Italy, 1905.

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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.

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I8 The AMHERSTOLIO ART1-1UR LALANNIE KIMISALL, fp I3 K, Professor of Physics. B.A., Princeton, '81, M.A., Princeton, '84, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, '86. Born at Succasunna, New Jersey, in 1856. Pre- pared for college at Plainfield High School, New jersey. Graduated from Princeton, 1881. Pursued graduate studies for one year at Princeton and two years at Johns Hopkins University. Associate in Physics at Johns Hopkins University, 1884-87. Asso- ciate Professor of Physics at Johns Hopkins Univer- sity, l887-91. Professor of Physics, Amherst Col- lege since 1891. Member of the American Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science, and of the Amer- ican Physical Society and Societe Francaise de Physique. Has published The Physical Properties of Gare: and also written papers on Elerlrical Units' and Electro- Magnflic Theory ofL1'ght. Investigation of the Ohm for the United States Govern- ment, 1884, reported on, but not published. 'cSlEORGE-DAN1I3L OLIJS, A A 10, 111 I3 lf, Professor of Mathematics. B.A., University of Rochester, '73, M.A., Uni- rversity of Rochester, '76, LL.D., Rochester, '07, Born at Micldleport, New York, 1853. Prepared for college at Brockport CNew Yorkj Normal School. Graduated from 'the University ot' Rochester, 1873. Taught in Albany Academy, 1873-79. Studied Mathe- matics in the Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin, 1879-83. Professor ,of Mathematics, University ol' Rochester, 1884-91. Professor of Mathematics at Amherst since 1891. Member ol' the American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science, and of the American Mathematical Society.