Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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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.

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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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VOLUME LV, 1912 13 JOHN MASON TYLER, YI T, fb If K, 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 Unio11 Theological Seminary, 1874-76, at Giittingen University, Germany, 1876-78, at University of Leipsic, Germany, 1878 79. Professor of Biology at Amherst College since 1879. Author of Wlienee anrl Whither of Man, 1895, Growth and Education, 1907, Man in the Light of Evo- lution, 1008. DAVID TODD, fl' I2 K, Sidney Dillon Professor of Astronomy and Navi- gation, and Director of the Observatory. B.A., Amherst, '75, M.A., Amherst, '78, Ph.D., Washington and Jefferson, '88. 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 obse1've the solar eclipse, 1878. Later, appointed Chief Assistant in oflicc of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac. Accepted the chair of Astronomy and Higher Mathe- matics, Smith College, 1882. Conducted observations 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, 1896, to Tripoli, Bar- ba1'y, 1900, to the Dutch East Indies, 1901, to Tripoli, 1905, and Mars Expedition to the Andes, 1907. Member of the Boston Authors' Club, the Astronomical and Astro- physical Society of America, and of the Washington Philosophical Society, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, member of the Astro- nomische Gesellschaft of Germany, and corresponding member of the Societe Nationale des Sciences N aturelles et Mathematiques de Cherbourg, France, of the Royal Society of Arts, London, and Sociedad 'Geografica de Lima, Peru. Founder and editor of The Columbian Knowledge Series, 1893-97, American Telescopes, in the Encyclopedia Britan- nica, 1888 3 also of the following books: A New Astronomy, 1897, Stars anrt Telescopes, 1899, Nepszera Csillagaszat CPopular Astronomyj, published at Budapest, Hungary, 1901, and Lessons in Astronomy, 1902. Designed and erected the new observatory at Amherst, 1906.