Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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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

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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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-olio- -1935- RALPH COPLESTONE WILLIAMS, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Beta Kappa Professor of French. B.A., Johns Hopkins, '08, Ph.D., '17. Instructor in French, Ohio State University, 1918-193 Assistant Professor, 1919-21. Assistant Pro- fessor of French, Johns Hopkins, 1921-25. Associate Professor of French at Amherst, 1925-27, Professor, 1927-. Author: The Theory of the Heroic Epic in Italian Criticism of the Sixtecrzih Century, Chicago, 1920, The Sim-jilijiezl Essentials of First Year French, 1924, A Bibliography of the Scvcflleerzlh Century Novel in France, 1931. Articles in Romanic Review, Modern Philology, Modern Language Notes. SAMUEL ROBINSON WILLIAMS, Theta Xi, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa Professor of Physics on the Eliza I. Clark Folger Fomulaiiou. Ph.B., Grinnell, '01, M.A., University of Nebraska, '03, Ph.D., Columbia, '16, D.Sc., Grinnell, '28, Graduate work at the University of Nebraska, 1901-O35 University of Berlin, 1903-05, Columbia, 1905-06. Private Research Assistant and Instructor, Barnard College, 1906-08. Professor and Head of De- partment of Physics, Oberlin, 1908-24. Professor of Physics, Amherst, 1924-. Civilian Appointed as Engineer in the Bureau of Air Craft Production, 1918. Fellow of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, and of the American Physical Society. FREDERICK SCOULLER ALLIS, Psi Upsilon, Phi Beta Kappa Secretary of the Alumni Council aml Secretary of fha Corporation. B.A., Amherst, '93, M.A., '2S. Graduate study at Law School of Harvard University. Admitted to the Pennsylvania bar, 1897. Prac- riced Law at Erie, Pa., and in New Yorkg engaged in business in the West until 1913. Appointed First Secretary of the Alumni Council at Amherst, 1914-. s CHARLES AMOS ANDREWS, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Beta Kappa Treasurer of the College. B.A., Amherst, '95. Taught school, Latin and French, Holyoke High School, 1895-98. With Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co., Boston, 1898-1907. Member of Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1904-06, where he was a member of the Committee on Codification of Railroad Laws and a Special Commission on Taxation. Deputy Commissioner of Corporations and Taxations, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1907-15. In com- mercial business, 1915-21. Connected with investment banking, 1921-31. Treasurer of Amherst College, 1931- l CHARLES HOWARD CADIGAN, Delta Kappa Epsilon. Director of Religious Activiiics. B.A., Amherst, '27g B.D., Virginia Theological Seminary, ,30. Assistant Coach of Football, Episcopal High School, Alexander, Va., 1927-28, Coach of Basketball, .1927-28. Student Secretary, National Student Council of the Episcopal Church, 1928-29. Rector of Grace Church, Amherst, 1930-. Appointed Director of Religious Activities at Amherst, 1930-. ROBERT STILLMAN FLETCHER, Chi Psi Olis Lilfrurian. B.A., Amherst, '97. Connected with the Buffalo Library, the Carnegie Library, Bradford, Pa., the Brooklyn Libraryg and the Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1898-1908. Assistant Librarian, Amherst, 1908-115 Otis Librarian, 19115 om he rsT col le ge