Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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-olio- -1935- ATHERTON HALL SPRAGUE, Delta Upsilon Associate Professor of Mathematics. B.A., Amherst, '20, M.A., Princeton, '23'. Instructor in Mathematics at Amherst, 1920-22. Graduate work at Princeton, 1922-23. Instructor in Mathematics, Amherst, 1923-24. Graduate work at Princeton, 1924-25. Instructor in Mathematics, Am- herst, 1925-26. Associate Professor, 1926-. Dean of Freshmen, 1928-. NVILLIANI WARREN STIFLER, Gamma Alpha, Sigma Xi Professor of Physics. B.A., Shurtleff College, '02g M.A., University of Illinois, '08, Ph.D., '11. Fellow in Physics, University of Illinois, 1906-07, and 1910-11. Professor of Chemistry and Physics, Ewing College, 1902-06. Instructor in Physics at Columbia, 1911-17. Head of Department of Physics and Dean of Pre-medical School, Peking Union Medical College, China, 1917-22. Visiting Professor of Physics, Canton Christian College, China, 1922-23. Research study, Harvard, 1923-24. Acting Professor of Physics, Williams, 1924-25. Associate Professor of Physics, Amherst, 1925-313 Professor, 1931-. Fel- low of American Physical Society and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Author of articles on Physics in the Physical Review and other scientific journals. GEORGE ROGERS TAYLOR Associate Professor of Ecovzomics. Ph.B., University of Chicago, '21g Ph.D., '29. Instructor, Department of Economics of the University of Iowa, 1921. Acting Professor of Economics, Earlham College, 1923. Instructor in Economics at Amherst, 1924-279 Assistant Professor, 1927-29g Asso- ciate Professor, 1929-. l 1 JOHN RICHNIOND THEOBALD Instructor in English. B.A., Oxford, '25, M.A., '28, S.T.M., Union Theological Seminary, '29. Graduate study at Oxford, 1925-28. English Fellowship to the Union Theological Seminary, 1928-29. Lecturer in English at Queen's University, 1929-30. Instructor in English, Amherst, 1931-. Published poems in the Oxford Poetry Magazine and the Oxford Outlook. Winner of the Oxford Outlook Prizes, 1928. FREDERIC LINCOLN THOMPSON, Delta Kappa Epsilon Winkley Professor of History. B.A., Amherst, '92, M.A., Harvard, '07. Instructor in the Pennsylvania Institute for the Blind, 1892-935 Kingis School, Stamford, Conn., 1893- 95g in Sachs Institute, New York City, 1895-1903. Graduate study in Paris, 1903-05. Harvard, 1905-07. Assistant in History at Harvard, 1906-07. Associate Professor of History at Amherst, 1907-095 Professor, ' ' - l A ' H' r'cal So- 1909-. Director Foyer du Soldat, First French Army, 1918 19. Memberiof tie mcrican isto i ciety, and the American Political Science Association. Fellow of the American Geograph1calSoc1ety, OHicer de l'Instruction Publique de la Republique Francaise. WILLARD LONG THORP, Chi Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Sigma Rho George D. Olds Professor of Economics. B.A., Amherst, '20, M.A., Michigan, '21g Ph.D., Columbia, '24-. Instructor in Economics, University of Michigan, 1920-21. Instructor in Social and Economic Insti- tutions, Amherst, 1921-22. Instructor in Economics and Banking, American Institute of Banking, 1923-27. Professor of Economics, Amherst, 1927-. Personal Ofliccr, Motor Transport Corps, 1918. Chief Statis- tician, New York Statc Board of Housing, 1926-27. Research Staff, National Bureau of Economic Re- search, 1924-. Special Agent, U. S. Bureau of Census, 19223 1928-. Author: The I1lfUgP'flfi01l of 11111115- frinl Operations, Bzzsivlvxs Ammls, Economic I11stiiutio1zs. cl m il e r ST c: ol I e Q e

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-olioo -1955-9 EDWARD DWIGHT SALMON, Delta Upsilou Assistant Professor of History. B.S., University of Rochester, '17, A.M., Harvard, '23. Graduate student at Harvard, 1922-26. Served in U. S. Army in A. E. F., First Lieutenant, A. G. D., Division Headquarters, 78th Division, 1917-19. Assistant in History, Harvard, 1923-255 Instructor of History, Harvard, 1925-26, Instructor of History, Amherst, 1926-295 Assistant Professor, 1929-. Author: Imllerial Sjmin, 1931. Member of the American Historical Association. ANTHONY SCENNA, Phi Beta Kappa Instructoi' in German. B.A., Amherst, '27g M.A., Columbia, '29. Graduate study at Columbia University, 1927-29, and the University of Frankfort, 1929-30. Instructor in German, Columbia University, 1927-29, and the University of Buffalo, 1930-31. Appointed Instructor in German at Amherst, 1931-. CHARLES LAXVTON SHERMAN, Phi Beta Kappa Associate Professor of Lnliu. A.B., Harvard, 'l7g Licencie-es-Lettres, Grenoble, '20g Ph.D., Harvard, '28. Lieutenant in the Engineering Corps, American Expeditionary Forces, 1917-19. Associate Professor of Greek and Latin, Ohio XVesleyan University, 1920-22. Instructor in French, Harvard, 1922-23. Instructor in Greek and Latin, 1923-29. Appointed Associate Professor of Latin, Amherst, 1929-. FRANK HERBERT SMITH, Phi Delta Theta Parmly Billings Professor of Hygiene ami Physical Erfneatiorz. B.A., Amherst, '93, M.D., University of Pennsylvania, '98. Practiced medicine in Hadley, Mass., 1900-29. Appointed Parrnly Billings Professor of Hygiene and Physical Education at Amherst, 1929-. Member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the American Medical Society. K HARRY DE FORREST SMITH, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Phi Beta Kappa Class of 1880 Professor of Greek. B.A., Bowdoin, '91, A.M., Harvard, '96, M.A., Amherst, '12, Taught at Rockland, Maine, 1891-1895. Graduate work at Harvard, 1895-96, and at the University of Berlin, 1896-97. Instructor in Greek at the University of Pennsylvania, 1897-98. Instructor in An- cient Language, Bowdoin, 1898-993 Assistant Professor of Greek, 1899-1901. Associate Professor of Greek, Amherst, 1901-035 Professor of Greek, 1903-. THEODORE SOLLER, Gamma Alpha, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa Assisirmt Professor of Physics. B.A., Oberlin, '22, M.A., University of Wisconsin, '24g Ph.D., '31. Graduate Assistant in Physics, University of Wisconsin, 1923-25, Instructor in Physics, 1925-28. Appointed Instructor in Physics at Amherst, 1928-31g Assistant Professor, 1931-. o m h e VST c O I I e Q e

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-olio- -1935- CHARLES HANSEN TOLL, Psi Upsilon, Phi Beta Kappa Professor of Philosophy anal Psychology. B.A., Hamilton, '04g A.M., Harvard, '05, Ph.D.,Freiburg, i. B., '09. Graduate work at Harvard, 1904-06. John Harvard Fellow, 1906-08. Graduate study at the Uni- versities of Berlin and Freiburg, i, B., 1907-09. Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Amherst, 1909-125 1923-. Commissioned First Lieutenant and later Captain, Sanitary Corps. Chief Psychological Examiner, Camp Custer, 1918. Major, Sanitary Corps Res., 1922. Associate Professor, 1912 -2 33 Professor, FREDERICK KING TURGEON, Beta Theta Phi, Phi Beta Kappa Assistant Professor of Frevzch. B.A., Bowdoin, '23g A.M., Harvard, '24, Ph.D., '29. Instructor in French at Harvard, 1924-26. Appointed Instructor in French at Amherst, 1926-305 Assistant Professor, 1930-. COLSTON ESTEY WARNE, Kappa Delta Rho, Artus Associalc Professor of Economics. B.A., Cornell, '20, M.A., '21, Ph.D., University of Chicago, '25. I Cornell Naval Unit, Ithaca, 1917-18. Instructor in Economics at Cornell, 1920-21, University of Pittsburgh, 1921-22. Assistant in Economics at the University of Chicago, 1922-25. Associate Professor of Economics, University of Denver, 1925-26. Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, 1926-29. Associate Professor of Economics, Amherst, 1930-. Author: The C01IS1l1ll0l'5, Cooperative Move- ment in Illinois, 1926. ALFRED GEORGE NVHEELER, Phi Delta Theta Associate Professor of Physical Education. B.A., Oberlin, '22. Instructor and Coach at Manual Arts High School, Los Angeles, California, 1923-24. At Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, 1925-26. Instructor in Physical Education at Amherst, 1927-295 Associate Profes- sor, 1929-. GEORGE FRISBIE NWHICHER, Theta Delta Chi, Phi Beta Kappa Smmiel Willisfo11 Professor of English. B.A., Amherst, '10, M.A., Columbia, '11g Ph.D., '15. . University Scholar in English, Columbia, 1911-125 University Fellow, 1913. Instructor in English, University of Illinois, 1914. Associate Professor of English, Amherst, 1915-22, Professor, 1922-. Editor of the Amherst Grarlnate Quarterly, 1919-32. N , ROBERT BYRON XVHITNEY, Delta Upsilon, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Phi Lambda Upzilon Assistant Professor of Chemistry. B.A., University of Minnesota, ,245 Ph.D., '27. Research Assistant and Instructor in Chemistry at the University of Minnesota, 1927-28. Instructor in Chemistry, Northwestern University, summer session, 1928. Instructor in Organic Chemistry and Re- search, Harvard and Radcliffe, 1928-30. Instructor in Chemistry at Amherst, 1930-. Member of the American Chemical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. omhersi college