Bowdoin College - Bugle Yearbook (Brunswick, ME)

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Paul Nixon, L.H.D., L.L.D., Dean and Professor of Latin Born at Des Moines, Iowa, May 23, 18S2. Graduated from Wesleyan University, 190+; studied at Oxford University, 1904-07; L.H.D. from Wesleyan University, 1927; L.L.D. from Colby College, 1938. Instructor in Greek and Latin, Dartmouth College, 1908-09; Assistant Professor of Classics and History at Bowdoin, 1909-11; Professor of Latin, 1911-; Professor of Latin, University of Chi- cago (summer session), 1913; Assistant Dean of Bowdoin, 1917-18; Dean, 1918-. Published A Roman Wit, Plautus (volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5), Loeb Classical Library; Martial and the Modern Epi- gram. President of the Classical Association of New England, 1925; Phi Nu Theta and Phi Beta Kappa Fraternities. Warren Benjamin Catlin, Ph.D., Daniel B. Fayerweather Professor of Eco- nomics and Sociology Born at Nemaha, Nebraska, November 3, 1881. Graduated from the University of Nebraska, 1903; graduate work at Columbia, 1906-09; Ph.D., 1927. Instructor in Economics and Political Science at Cornell, 1909-10; Assistant Professor of Economics and Sociology at Bowdoin, 1910-12; Professor, 1912-. Author of The Labor Problem in Great Britain and the United States, 1926, 1935. Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity. Orren Chalmer Hormell, Ph.D., DcAlva Stanwood Alexander Professor of Government Born at Wingate, Indiana, December 4, 1879. A.B. from Indiana University, 1904; A.M., 1905; A.M. from Harvard, 1909; Ph.D., 1921. Instructor at Clark College, 1910-11; Army Educational Corps, A.E.F., Beaune, France, 1919; Assistant Professor of History at Bowdoin, 1911-13; Professor of Government, 1913-27; DeAlva Stanwood Alexander Professor of Government, 1927-; Visiting Lecturer in Government, Harvard, 1919-29. Author of A Guide to the Study of Chics, 1915; Con- trol of Public Utilities Abroad, 1930; Bowdoin College Bulletins, Municipal Research Series, Nos. 1- 10. Survey of Town of West Hartford, Connecticut, 1934. Sigma Nu Fraternity. Alfred Otto Gross, Pii.D., Professor of Biology Born at Atwood, Illinois, April 8, 1883. B.S. from the University of Illinois, 1908; Ph.D. from Harvard, 1912. Instructor in Zoology at the University of Illinois, 1908-09; Edwin Austin Research Fellow, Harvard Graduate School, 1910-12; Instructor at Bowdoin, 1912-13; Assistant Professor of Biology, Embryology and Histology at Bowdoin, 1913-22; Professor of Biology, 1922-. Fellow: American Geographical Society, American Ornithologists’ Union, British Ecological Society, Ameri- can Association for the Advancement of Science. Expeditions: Panama, 1925; South America, 1927; Central America, 1928; Canadian Labrador, 1930 and 1931; Bowdoin-MacMillan Arctic Expedi- tion, 1934. Sigma Xi, Gamma Alpha and Alpha Tau Omega Fraternities.

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IO Faculty Gerald Gardner Wilder, A.M., Librarian Born at Pembroke, Maine, April 30, 1879. Fitted at Pembroke High School. Graduated from Bowdoin, 1904. Assistant Librarian at Bowdoin, 1906-15; Librarian, 1915-. Clerk of the College Faculty, 1912-. Former President of the Maine Library Association. Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity. Charles Theodore Burnett, Pii.D., L.H.D., Professor of Psychology Born at Springfield, Massachusetts, June 24, 1873. Fitted at Greenfield High School (Massachusetts). Graduated from Amherst, 1895; Ph.D. from Harvard, 1903; L.H.D. from Amherst, 1930. Instruc- tor in Psychology at Tome Institute, Port Deposit, Maryland, 1895-96; Instructor in Psychology at Bowdoin, 1904-06; Assistant Professor, 1906-09; Professor, 1909-; Registrar, 1905-10. Published, 1925, Splitting the Mind-, 1931, Hyde of Bowdoin. Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa Fraternities. Frederic Willis Brown, Ph.D., Longfellow Professor of Modern Languages Born at Concord, Massachusetts, May 24, 1S76. Graduated from Harvard, 1897; Ph.D. from Har- vard, 1906; studied at the University of Grenoble, France, 1901-02; Harvard Graduate School, 1902- 05. Instructor in Romance Languages, Clark College, 1905-07; Professor of Modern Languages at Bowdoin, 1907-. Delta Upsilon Fraternity. Manton Copeland, Ph.D., Professor of Biology, and Josiah Little Professor of Natural Science Born at Taunton, Massachusetts, July 24, 1881. Graduated from Harvard, 1904; S.M. from Harvard, 1905; Ph.D. from Harvard, 1908. Assistant in Zoology, Harvard and Radcliffc, 1903-08; Instructor in Biology at Bowdoin, 1908-09; Assistant Professor, 1909-10; Professor, 191 o-. Member of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. Chi Psi Fraternity.

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12 Faculty Philip Weston Meserve, A.M., Professor of Chemistry Born at Portland, Maine, November 24, 1888. Fitted at Portland High School. Graduated from Bowdoin, 1911; studied at Harvard, 1911-12, 1914-15; studied at Johns Hopkins, 1912-13; at Hygiene Laboratory, Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, Washington, D. C., 1913. In- structor in Chemistry at Simmons College, 1913-14; Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Bowdoin, 1916-27; Associate Professor, 1927-28; Professor, 192S-. Psi Upsilon Fraternity. Thomas Curtis Van Cleve, Ph.D., Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of His- tory and Political Science Born at Malden, Missouri, May 1, 18S8. Graduated from the University of Missouri, 1911; studied at the University of Wisconsin, 19x3-15; Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, 1921; Assistant in History at the University of Wisconsin, 1913-15; Instructor in History at Bowdoin, 1915-17; Assistant Professor, 1917-20; Frank Munsey Professor of History, 1920-25; Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of History and Political Science, 1925-. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, England. Daniel Caldwell Stanwood, A.M., Professor of International Law, Emeritus Born at Augusta, Maine, May 15, 1869. Studied law at New York University; admitted to the New York Bar, 1890; to the Massachusetts Bar, 1892. At Oxford, England, 1894-99; received A.B. and A.M. degrees from Oxford; practiced law, 1900-0S; retired from law practice to return to Ox- ford; 190S-19 spent in traveling and at Oxford. Lecturer on International Law at Bowdoin, 191s- 19; Professor, 1919-36; Professor Emeritus, 1936-. Honorary Member Senior Common Room, Uni- versity College, Oxford, 1921. Noel Charlton Little, Pii.D., Professor of Physics Born at Brunswick, Maine, December 25, 1895. Fitted at Brunswick High School. A.B. from Bowdoin, 1917; A.M. in Mathematics from Harvard, 1919; Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard, 1923. Instructor in Physics at Bowdoin, 1919-22; Assistant Professor, 1922-25; Professor, 1926-. On leave of absence at Harvard Graduate School, 1921-23; at Tubingen, Germany, 1928-29. Fellow of the American Physical Society, of the Institute of Radio Engineers, and der Deutschcn Physikalschen Gcsellschaft. Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa Fraternities.