Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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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.

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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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14 THE AMHERST OLIO JOHN FRANKLIN GENUNG, A T, fb I3 K, Professor of Literary and Biblical Interpretation. B.A., Union, '70, M.A, and Ph.D., Lcipsic, '81, D.D., Yale, '05, 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, 1870-723 then entered Rochester Theological Seminary, where he was graduated in 1875. Pastor of Baptist Church, Baldwinsvillc, New York, 1875-78. Studied at University of Leipsic, 1878- 81, graduating with degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. Asso- ciate Professor and Professor of Rhetoric, Amherst Col- lege, 1882-1906, since then Professor of Literary and Biblical Interpretation. Member of Authors' Club Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, and Harvard Biblical Club. Author of Study of Tennyson's In Me- moriam, 18833 Practical Elements of Rhetoric, 18865 Rhetorical Analysis, 1888, Study of Rhetoric in the Cot- lege Course, 18885 The Epic of the Inner Life, A Study of the Book of Job, 18905 Out- lines of Rhetoric, 1893, What a Carpenter Difl with His Bible, 18983 The Passing of Self, 18993 Working Principles of Rhetoric, 19013 Stcvenson's Attitude to Life, 19015 Ecclesiastes and Omar Khayyam, 19015 Words of Kohelethg A Study of and Commentary on the Book of Ecclesiastes, 1904, The Hebrew Literature of Wisdom, 19065 The Idylls and The Ages, 1907. Editor of Select Essays of Elia, with Introduction and Notes, 1909. WILLIAM LYMAN COWLES, A K IC, fl' B K, Professor of Latin. B.A., Amherst, '78, M.A., Amhe1'st, '81. Born at Belchertown, Massachusetts, April 11, 1856. Fitted for college at Monson Academy and Williston 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, Gottingcn, and Leipsic, Germany, and in travel in Italy. Associate Professor of Latin in Amherst, 1886-94. Lecturer on Latin Litera- ture in Smith College, 1886-95. Traveled for study of places connected with Latin Literature, 1891. Professor of Latin, Amherst College, since 1894. Traveled in Eu- rope and studied at Rome, 1898. Taught Latin in Smith College, 1900. Member American Philological Society, New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools,' and of the Managing Committee of the Ameri- can School at Rome. Member of the Board of Trus- tees of Monson Academy, Has published Abstract of Lectures on Topics Connected with the Latin Language, Adelphoe of Terrence, 1896, Selections from Poems of Catullus, 19005 Selections from Catultus and other Latin poets, 1909 5 and many articles for maga- zines and periodicals. Traveled in Italy, 1905.