Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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, ..u.m.... ... , yi li i X gif ug .K ,.,-, .- l. ,. GEORGE HARRIS, A A fb, fl: B K, President. B.A., Amherst '66, D.D., Amherst, '83, D.D., Harvard, '99, LL.ID., Dartmouth, '99, D.D., Yale, '01, LL.D., Williams, '08, LL.D., Wesleyan, '09. Born at East Machias, Maine. Prepared for college at Washington Aeadem in his native town. Graduated from Amherst 1866. Sltudied a year in the Theological Semlnary at Hanger, and then went to Andover, where he was graduate in 1869. Soon after his graduation from Andover he accepted a call to the High Street Congregational Church at Auburn, Maine. In 1872 he became pastor of the Central Congregational Church of Provrdence, R. I., where he remained until 1883 when he became Abbot Professor of Christian Theology in Andover Seminary. At this time he became one of the editors of the Andover Review, and in 1896 published a book on Moral Evolution, and in 1897 .Inequality and Progress. In 1887, in connection with the organist of his church ln Providence and President Tucker of Dartmouth, he published Hymns of the Faith, which was in 1891 re-edited, condensed, and adapted to the use of students. He was one of the college preachers at Harvard, 1897-1899. He was called to the presi- dency of Amherst in 1899.

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10 THE AMHERST OLIO The Corporation of Amherst College GEORGE A. PLIMPTON, B.A. . . Prcstflcnt of the Corporation. REV. GEORGE HARRIS, D.D., LL.D. President of the College. PROFESSOR WILLISTON WALKER, D.D. . Secretary of the Corporation. G. HENRY WHITCOMB, M.A. . . REV. WILLIAM HAYES WARD, D.D., LL.D. CHARLES M. PRATT, M.A. . . . HON. CHARLES H. ALLEN, LL.D. . REV. HENRY H. KELSEY, M.A. ARTHUR CURTISS JAMES, M.A. JOHN W. SIMPSON, LL.D. . . . REV. CORNELIUS H. PATTON, D.D. . DEAN WILFORD L. ROBBINS, D.D., LL.D. FRANK WATERMAN STEARNS, B.A. . ARTHUR CHARLES ROUNDS, M. A. . PROFESSOR ARTHUR LINCOLN GILLETT, D.D. . TALCOTT WILLIAMS, LL.D., L1r'r.D. . ROBERT ARCHEY WOODS, M.A. . HARRY WELTON KIDDER, B.A. Treasurer rd the Corporation. . New York, N. Y. Amherst, Mass. New Haven, Conn. Worcester, Mass. New York, N. Y. Brooklyn, N. Y. Lowell, Mass. Marietta, Ohio New York, N. Y. New York, N. Y. Boston, Mass. New York, N. Y. Boston, Mass. New York, N. Y. H:u't,forcl, Conn. Philadelplxia, Pa. Boston, Mass. Amherst, M ass. Overseers of the Charitable Fund REV. JOHN M. GREENE, D.D. . . . M. FAYETTE DICKINSON, M.A. . . PROFESSOR WILLIAM B. GRAVES, M.A. JOHN C. HAMMOND, M.A ..., LEWIS W. WEST, B. A. . . REV. JAMES W. BIXLER, D.D .... REV. CHARLES W. MERRIAM . . . Lowell, Mass. Boston, Mass. Andover, Mass. Northampton, M ass Hadley, Mass. New London, Conn. Greenfield, Mass. HARRY WELTON KIDDER, B.A., Commtssioncv'

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12 THE AMHERST OLIO GEORGE DANIELS OLDs, A A 111, fll BK Walker Professor of Mathematics, and Dean of the Faculty. B.A., University of Rochester, '73, M.A., University of Rochester, '76, LL.D., Rochester, '07, Born at Middleport, New York, 1853. Prepared for college at Brockport CNew Yorkj Normal School. Grad- uated from the University of Rochester, 1873. Taught in Albany Academy, 1873-79. Studied Mathematics in the Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin, 1879-83. Professor of Mathematics, University of Rochester, 1884-91. Professor of Mathematics at Amherst since 1891, Dean of the Faculty since 1910. Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Mathematical Society, and of the Circolo matematico di Palermo. BENJAMIN IQENDALL EMERSON, A el fb, fb If K, Hitchcock Professor ot' Mineralogy and Geology. , B.A., Amherst, '65: Ph.D., University of Giittingen 70. Born at Nashua, New Hampshire, December 20, 1843. Prepared for college at the Nashua High School and at Tilton CNew Hampshirej Seminary. Graduated from Amherst, 1865. Graduated from Giittingen Uni- versity, 1870. Studied at Berlin University, 1870-71. Appointed Professor of Mineralogy and Geology at Am- herst, 1871, at Smith, 1877. Member of the German Geological Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, American Geographical Society, Washin ton Academy of Science. On the United States GeologicalSurvey since 1883. Vice- President of the American Association for the Advance- ment of Arts and Sciences, 1896. Elected Vice-President of the Geological Congress at St. Petersburg, 1897. Presi- . dent of American Geological Society, 1899. Author of Mineral Lexicon of Old New Hampshire County, Geology of Old Hampshire County, Geo- logical Maps of Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin Counties, The Trias of Massachu- sells, The Geology of Eastern Berkshire, The Geology of Eastern Rhode Island, together with many shorter geological works, and of The Genealogy of the Emerson Family.