Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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Robert Byron Whitney is assistant professor of chem- istry. He obtained his B.A. from the University of Minne- sota in 1924 and his Ph.D. from that institution in 1927. Upon graduation he acted as research assistant and instructor in chem- istry there for one year. He was instructor in organic chemistry and research at Harvard and Rad- cliffe from 1928 till 1930, coming to Amherst as instructor in chem- istry in 1930. He was appointed assistant professor in 1933. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also a member of Delta Upsilon, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi and Phi Lambda Upsilon. a-7. ,,.., 4 Professor Beebe's research work has warranted generous awards from the American Chemical Society. George William Low, Jr. is an instructor in chemistry. He is a member of Sigma Xi and also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated from Princeton in the Class of 1931, re- ceiving his B.A. in that year. After spending four years in intensive graduate study at that institution, he was awarded his Ph.D. in 1934. He first came to Amherst as an assistant in chemistry during the 1934-1935 school year. He was ap- pointed instructor in chemistry in 1935. Besides rendering valuable assistance in both classroom and laboratory in elementary chemistry, he works with more advanced students in the laboratory. He is a member of the American Chemical Society. fare Colbert, he was a traveling fel- Economics Charles Woolsey Cole after grad- uation from Amherst in 1927 took his M.A. at Columbia the follow- ing year while holding a univer- sity fellowship. He served as in- structor in history at Columbia from 1928 to 1935, obtaining his Ph.D. degree there in 1931. Author of Frerzelo Mercemtilirt Daetriner Be- low of the Social Science Research Council in 1932-33 and returned to Amherst as associate professor of economics in 1935. Afliliated with Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Professor Cole achieved the position of professor of economics in 1937. George Rogers Taylor, associate professor of economics is an alumnus of the University of Chicago where he took his Ph.B. degree in 1921. From there he went to the University of A Iowa as instructor in the depart- ment of economics. ln 1923 he served in the capacity of acting professor of economics at Earlham College. First coming to Amherst in 1924, he was an instructor in economics for three years, then was advanced to the rank of assist- ant professor of economics. Re- C turning to the University of Chicago for further study in 1929, he obtained his Ph.D. degree. He was elevated to his present position as associate professor of economics at Amherst in 1929. Colston Estey Warne, associate professor of economics, is a graduate of Cornell, where he also took his M.A. in 1921. From instructorships in eco- nomics at Cornell and the Univer- sity of Pittsburgh he went to the University of Chicago as assistant in economics from 1922 to 1925 and received his Ph.D. degree at the end of that time. He became associate professor of economics at the University of Denver and then assistant professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh from 1926 to 1929. In 1930 he came to Amherst and his present position. Professor Warne is president of Consumers' Union, author of The Comumerr' Cooperative Movement in Illirmir, member of Kappa Delta Rho and Artus. 21-

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Alfred Shepard Goodale is associate professor of botany. He graduated from Amherst in the Class of 1898. After serving as acting registrar in 1901, he was oflicially made registrar from 1902 to 1918. He was ap- pointed instructor in botany in 1904, holding this position to 1911, at which time he was made assistant professor. He remained an assistant professor only two years, being promoted to associate professor in 1913. He is a member of the New England Botanical Club, the Torrey Botanical Club and the American Fern Society. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Oscar Emile Schotte is assistant professor of biology. He is a graduate of the Imperial Russian State Gymnasi- um and received his D.Sc. degree at Geneva in 1925. His first position was as an instructor at the Institut de Zoologie et d' Anatomie Cam- paree of Geneva University from 1920 to 1928. He was a research fellow at the Rockefeller Founda- tion at the University of Freiburg during the year 1931-32 and at Yale University from 1932 to 1934. In 1934 he became assistant pro- fessor of biology at Amherst College. He is a member of the Societe Suisse de Zoologie, of the American Zoologi- cal Society and of the corporation of the Marine Biologi- cal Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. His publications in- clude research papers in the embryological field. George Percy Child is an instructor in biology. After taking his B.S. at New York University in 1929, he went on to take his Ph.D. there in 1934. He was an assistant in biology dur- ing his senior year and a graduate assistant in biology from 1929 to 1933. In 1933 he was appointed Rockefeller Research Assistant in Poultry Husbandry and Genetics at the University of Minnesota. Coming to Amherst as research i Q assistant in biology in 1935, he was appointed instructor in biol- ogy in 1937. He has conducted important research in ex- perimental embryology. He is a member of the New York Museum of Natural History, of the Genetics Society of America and of the American Zoological Society. Chemistry Ralph Alonzo Beebe graduated from Amherst in the Class of 1920. He was engaged in graduate study at Princeton during the years 1920 to 1923. On obtaining his Ph.D. at Princton in 1923, he was ap- pointed instructor in chemistry at Amherst. He was promoted to as- sociate professor in 1925 and fur- ther advanced to professor of chem- istry in 1937. He has done out- standing and significant chemical research in the field of molecular adsorption of heat. He is a member of the American Chemical Society. He is also a member of Phi Kappa Psi and Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Child helps students in a biology problem. Howard Waters Doughty is Massachusetts Professor of Chemistry. After attending Johns Hopkins, he engaged in commercial work for seven years. Returning to Johns Hopkins in 1900, he received his Ph.D. in 1904. After working as Carnegie Research Assistant in Vvlashington for a year, he taught at the Uni- versity of Missouri and at the Uni- versity of VVisconsin. He came to Amherst in 1907 and was appointed successively assistant professor, as- sociate professor and, in 1913, pro- fessor. He received his M.A. from Amherst in 1916 and his B.E., extra ordinen, from Johns Hopkins in 1927. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, of Phi Gamma Delta, of Sigma Xi and of Phi Beta Kappa. 20-

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Lester Vernon Chandler is assistant professor of eco- nomics. He is a member of Alpha Kappa Psi, of Alpha Pi Zeta and of Phi Beta Kappa. V After taking his B.A. in 1930, his M.A. in 1931 from the University of Missouri and his Ph.D. from Yale in 1934, he became instructor in economics at Dartmouth during the school years 1933 to 1935. He acted as instructor in economics at Princeton during the years 1935 to 1937. Coming to Amherst in 1937 as assistant professor of eco- teaching advanced courses in the history and more fundamental principles of the field of money, banking and public finance. nomics, he has been William Richard Pabst, Jr., instructor in economics, is an Amherst graduate, having received his B.A. degree with the Class of 1931. From 1934 to 1936 he was on the faculty of Cornell University as instructor in economics. Continuing his study further at Columbia University, he obtained his Ph.D. degree from that university in 1936. Later in the same year he came back to Amherst as a member of the fac- ulty and took the position which he now holds as instructor in eco- nomics. Mr. Pabst is connected with Delta Tau Delta Fraternity and is a member of the American Economic Association, the Econometric Society and the American Statistical Association. English George Roy Elliott, a graduate of the University of Toronto in 1904, engaged in newspaper work for two years before obtaining his Ph.D. in 1908 from the University of Jena in Germany. He then be- came instructor in English at the University of Wisconsin and next professor of English literature at Bowdoin. In 1925 Bowdoin con- ferred the Litt.D. degree upon him, and in the same year he took his present position at Amherst as professor of English on the Henry C. Folger Foundation. A member of Phi Eta Fraternity, Professor Elliott is author of The Cycle of Modern Poetfy and a con- tributor to several literary publications. -22 Robert Frost, professor of English on the John Wood- ruff Simpson Foundation, obtained his B.A. degree from Dartmouth in 1892. After engaging in various works, including teach- ing, and spending four years in England, he became an English professor at Amherst from 1916 to 20. In 1925-26 the University of Michigan claimed his presence as poet in residence, then in 1926 he returned to Amherst and his pres- sent professorship. Professor Frost, a member of Theta Delta Chi, has received the M.AM. degree from Amherst and Michigan, L.H.D. from the University of Vermont and the Litt.D. degree from Yale, Columbia and several New England colleges. His latest poetry work is A Further Range. ,ri Professor Warne's guest speaker is Mr. Huberman, well known as an authority on labor. David Morton, professor of English, who obtained his B.S. degree from Vanderbilt University in 1909, spent ten years after graduation in news- paper and magazine work. In 1924 he came to Amherst as associate professor of English, and in 1926 he advanced to his present stand- ing as professor of English. In 1934 Amherst conferred the M.A. degree upon him. Professor Mor- ton, a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, Phi Beta Kappa and vari- ous poetry societies, is author of and Antumnezlf, The Renezlrmnoe of Irirh Poetfy, A Mon of Earth, Shorter Modern Shipf in Hezrhor, Harriet, Nootnrner Poems: an Anthology, Six for Them.' an Anthology, The Sonnet Today and Yeftereloy, Eorthu Prorerfionnl and Spell Agninrt Time.