Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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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. Chief Assistant in the office of the American Ephemeris and Nautical I Almanac, 1878-81. Appointed Director of the Amherst Observatory, 1881. Professor of Astronomy and Higher Mathematics, Smith College, 1882-87. Conducted observations of the transit of Venus at the Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, California, 1882. Took charge of the National Academy Eclipse Expedition to Japan, 1887. Appointed Chief of the Government Eclipse Expedition to VVest Africa, 1889-90. Director of Amherst Eclipse Expeditions to japan, 1896, to Tripoli, Barbary, 19001 to the Dutch East Indies, 19013 to Tripoli, 19053 to Russia, 19143 and Mars Expedition to the Andes, 1907. Member of the Aero Club of America, the Astronomical Society of America, and the Washington Philosophical Society3 member of the Astronomische Gesellschaft of Germany, and corresponding member of the Societe Nationale des Sciences Naturelles et Mathematiques de Cherbourg, Franceg and Sociedad Geografica de Lima, Peru. Founder and editor of the Columbian Knowledge Series, 1893-97. Author of American Telescopes, in the Encyclopedia Britannica, 1888, also of the following books: A New Astronomy, 1897, Stars and Telescopes, 18995 Nepszeru Csillagazatf' published at Budapest, Hungary, 19013 Lessons in Astronomy, 1902, Optical Resolution of the Ring of Saturn, 19112 Three Centuries of Total Eclipses in Mexico, 1910, and the same for Brazil, 1912. Designed and erected the new observatory at Amherst, 1906. JOHN FRANKLIN GENUNG, A T, fir B K, Professor of Literary and Biblical Interpre- tation. B.A., Union, '703 M.A. and Ph.D., Leipsic, '813 D.D., Yale, '053 M.A., Amherst, '12g L.H.D., Union, '13. Amherst owes Professor Genung above all the Memory Song, but also an unbroken record of interesting Symposia, half the pep of the early Mitre meetings, and many quiet little services to the Student Council. Assuredly we are all with him in spirit. Born january 27, 1850, in Tioga County, New York. Prepared for college at Owego CNew Yorkj Academy. Wlas 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, Baldwinsyille, New York, 1875-78. I Studied at the University of Leipsic, 1878-81. Associate Professor and Professor of Rhetoric, Amherst College, 1882-19062 Professor of Literary and Biblical Interpretation, 1906. Member of the Authors' Club, Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, and Harvard Biblical Club. Author of Study of Tennyson's 'In Memoriamf 18833 Practical Elements of Rhetoric, 18863 Rhetorical Analysis, 1888, Study of Rhetoric in the College Course, 1888, The Epic of the Inner Life, 18901 Outlines of Rhetoric, 1893, VVhat a Carpenter Did with his Bible, -1898, The Passing of Self, 18991 Working Principles of Rhetoric, 19013 Steyenson's Attitude to Life, 1901: Ecclesiastes and Omar Khayyamf' 19015 VVords of Kohelethf' 19033 A Study of and a Commentary on the Bookof Ecclesiastes, 19043 The Hebrew Literature of VVisdom, 1906, The Idylls and the Ages, 19071 The Man with the Pitcher and his Story, 1912. Editor of Select Essays of Elia, with Introduction and Notes, 1909. Editor-in-chief of the Amherst Graduates' Quarterly, 1911. 26