Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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Vklilliam Tingle Rowland graduated from Kentucky Wesleyan in 1902. A member of Kappa Alpha Fraternity, Professor Rowland received his Master of Arts degree from Vander- bilt University in 1907. He was principal of Weatherford Prepara- tory School in Texas between the years 1907 and 1909. The years from 1911 to 1915 were spent in graduate study at the University of Chicago and then at Columbia. From 1915 to 1917 Professor Row- land was an instructor in the class- ics at Hunter College. He was an assistant professor of Greek at Queens University until 1920, when he came to Amherst in the capacity of associate professor. In 1926 he was appointed professor of Latin. Professor Rowland received his Doctor's degree from Columbia University. Professor Cobb is a member of the mathematics department. Mathematics Charles Wiggins Cobb is pro- fessor of mathematics. He re- ceived his B.A. from Amherst in 1897, his M.A. from Amherst in 1901 and his Ph.D. from the Uni- versity of Michigan in 1912. From 1897 to 1904 he was an instructor at various high schools and acade- mies. Between 1904 and 1911 he carried on graduate study at Co- lumbia, New York University, Clark University and the University of Michigan. He became instructor in mathematics at Amherst in 1908, assistant professor in 1911, associate professor in 1914 and professor in 1922. An air service captain during 1917-18, he is a member of Theta Delta Chi and Sigma Xi. Thomas C. Esty is Walker Professor of Mathematics and acting president of the College in case of absence of the president. After receiving his B.A. at Amherst in 1893 and his M.A. in 1897, he was made in- structor at the Case School of Ap- plied Science during the year 1894- 95 and Walker Instructor in Math- ematics at Amherst from 1895 to 1897 and from 1898 to 1901. He studied at the University of Got- tingen during the year 1897-98. ln 1901 he became professor of mathematics at the University of Rochester, but left in 1905 to accept a professorship in mathematics at Am- herst. He was dean of the College from 1922 to 1929. He is a member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa. Atherton Hall Sprague is associate professor of mathe- matics. He received his B.A. degree at Amherst in 1920 and his M.A. degree at Princeton in 1923. His first position was as an instructor in mathematics at Am- herst from 1920 to 1922, from 1923 V to 1924 and from 1925 to 1926. After graduate work at Princeton during the years 1922-23 and 1924- 25 he was elevated to an associate professorship in mathematics at Amherst in 1926. Between 1928 and 1933 he was dean of freshmen. He is a member of the American Mathematical Society and author of Ffrentialf of Plane Trigonometfjf and Amzbfti- ral Geometfy, published in 1934. He is a member of Delta Upsilon Fraternity. Bailey Lelfevre Brown, assistant professor of mathe- matics, is a graduate of Amherst with the Class of 1924. Upon receiving his B.A. degree, he went to Princeton University for three years of graduate study in his field, obtaining his M.A. degree in 1925. For a short while in 1927 he served as instructor in mathematics at Bryn Mawr, then came to a similar position at Am- herst. ln 1936 he was elevated to his present rank as assistant pro- fessor of mathematics. A member of the American Mathematical Society, Professor Brown was awarded a John Woodruff Simpson Fellowship for 1937-38, allowing him to continue his graduate study at Princeton University. His particular interest in mathe- matics has been calculus. -29-

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Edward Dwight Salmon was a member of Delta Upsil- on at the University of Rochester, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1917. He did graduate work at Harvard University from 1922 to 1926 and was made an assistant in history in 1923, receiving the degree of Master of Science that year. He served as instructor in history at Harvard until 1926, when he became instructor at Amherst. In 1929 he was made an assistant professor and was ap- pointed associate professor in 1934. The same year he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Harvard. He is the author of Imperial Spain and is a member of the American Historical Association. Alfred Freeman Havighurst is a member of Phi Delta Theta. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Ohio Wesleyan in 1925 and did graduate work at the University of Chicago during 1927 and 1928, receiving the Master of Arts degree there at the end of the latter year. During 1929 he continued doing graduate work at Harvard. The following year he was made instructor in history at Pacific University and then returned to Harvard as an assistant in 1930. The next year he came to Amherst as an instructor in history. He returned to Har- vard University for one year, 1936, where he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Richard Cleghorn Overton, Theta Delta Chi, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Williams, where he received the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1929. He was engaged in banking from 1930 to 1932 and then was made a master in French at the Hotchkiss School. He returned to Williams in 1933 as an assistant and graduate student in economics. In 1934 he became an instructor in economic history at the North Adams State Teachers College and received the Master of Arts degree from Wil- liams. He entered graduate school at Harvard from 1934 to 1936 and received the Master of Arts degree from Har- vard in the latter year. He then came to Amherst as an instructor in history. Italian Reginald Foster French, assist- ant professor of rom ance languages, ' graduated from Dartmouth Col- r 1,55 lege in 1927 and took his M.A. lr degree in 1928 at Harvard. As a .Q f. fellow of the Institute of Inter- 5 national Education, he spent one .si. A- - , lgi year at the University of Rome and I then held instructorships at the ' , N i i University of Missouri and at I 4 N r Lf? Vvlilliams. In 1935 he received his Ph.D. degree from Harvard, and in that same year the University of Nebraska called him to be assistant profes- sor of romance languages. Professor French, a member of Alpha Sigma Phi and Phi Beta Kappa, took his present position at Amherst in 1937. Professor Packard lectures on 'The Battle ofjutlandf' Latin Charles Ernest Bennett, Moore Professor of Latin, graduated from Amherst College in 1905. While in college Professor Bennett was elec- ted to Phi Beta Kappa and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta. He served as assistant principal and instructor in Latin and German at the Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, High School and as sub-master at the Washington School for Boys dur- ing the years 1905 to 1907. He served as graduate student and teaching fellow at Cornell from 1908 to 1911 and received his Doctor's degree from that school. In 1911 he came to Amherst and was made a professor in 1919. -281

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Music Vincent Morgan is assistant professor of music. He received his B.M. degree from the New Eng- land Conservatory of Music in 1932 and his M.M. degree from the Conservatory in 1934. He stud- ied with Boulanger in Paris in 1929. He was instructor in Dan- forth-Dunbar School for Girls in 1935 and became director of Car- negie music program at Vllorcester Art Museum in 1934 and lecturer on the musical arts at Worcester Art Museum in 1935. In 1935 he became assist- ant professor of music at Amherst College. He is a mem- ber of Kappa Gamma Psi Fraternity. George Leland Nichols, assistant professor of music, organist and choirmaster, went to the American Con- servatory, Chicago, after gradua- tion from Amherst in 1919. Re- ceiving his B.M. degree there in 1922 and his M.M. degree in 1936, he has also studied piano under Howard Wells and Horace Alwyne, organ under John Doane, E. S. Seder, Palmer Christian and Frank Van Dusen, as well as choral and theory under several teachers here and abroad. Between periods of private teaching in Chicago and in Columbus, Ohio, he was on the faculty of Ohio Wesleyan University for eight years and came to Amherst in 1937. Professor Nichols is a member of Delta Upsilon and Phi Mu Alpha Fraternities. Philosophy Sterling Power Lamprecht is professor of philosophy. He re- ceived his B.A. from Williams in 1911, his M.A. from Harvard in 1912, his B.D. from the Union Theological Seminary in 1915 and his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1918. He has also received degrees from the University of Poitiers and from Amherst. Before coming to Am- herst in 1925 he served on the faculties of Columbia and the University of Illinois. His first position at Amherst was as associate professor of philosophy, and then he became professor in 1928. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Delta Rho. William Jesse Newlin is professor of philosophy and secretary of the faculty. He received his B.A. from Am- herst in 1899, his M.A. from the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology in 1901 and his M.A. from Amherst in 1906. He was NValker Instructor in Mathematics at Amherst from 1902 to 1905 and Shattuck Scholar in Mathematics at Harvard during the year 1905- 06. Returning to Amherst, he was made an assistant professor of mathematics and philosophy in 1906, associate professor in 1907 and professor in 1909. He was division chief for the Army Educational Corps, A.E.F. in 1919. He is a member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Nichols is Amht-rst's new organist and choir coach. Gail Kennedy is assistant professor of philosophy. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Minne- sota in 1922, his M.A. degree from Columbia University in 1923 and his Ph.D. degree from the same institution in 1928. He was a uni- versity fellow in philosophy at Columbia during the year 1923- 24, and lecturer in philosophy during the year 1924-25. After a year as assistant director of the New School for Social Research at New York City. he was appointed I instructor in philosophy at Amherst College in 1926, which position he held until 1931, when he became as- sistant professor. He received the Guggenheim Fellow- ship in Philosophy in 1929.