Bowdoin College - Bugle Yearbook (Brunswick, ME)

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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.

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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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Mortimer Phillips Mason, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy Born at Boston, Massachusetts, March 19, 1876. A.B. from Harvard, 1899; A.M. from Harvard, 1900; Ph.D. from Harvard, 1904; at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1899-1900; at Heidelberg, Berlin, and Marburg Universities, Germany, 1900-02; at the Sorbonne and College dc France, Paris, 1902; at Harvard, 1902-04. Instructor in Philosophy and Psychology at Princeton, 1905-07; Asso- ciate in Philosophy at Bryn Mawr, 1909-11; Lecturer in Philosophy at Harvard, 1913-19; Profes- sor of Philosophy at Bowdoin, 1920-. Thomas Means, A.M., Joseph E. Merrill Professor of the Greek Language and Literature Born at New Haven, Connecticut, September 19, 1889. Fitted at New Haven High School. A.B. from Yale, 1910; A.M. from Yale, 1915; A.M. from Harvard, 1926; graduate scholar at Yale, 1910-11; Connecticut Rhodes Scholar, Merton College, Oxford, 1911-14; Abcrncthy Fellow at Yale, 1914-15; Gorham Thomas Scholar, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard, 1916-17. Member of the faculty, Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut, 1915-6. Foreign Service, French and American Armies, May 5, 1917-July 3, 1919. Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin at Bowdoin, 1921-26; Professor, 1926-; Joseph E. Merrill Professor of the Greek Language and Literature, 1929-; Member of the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1929. Visiting Professor at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1933-34- Assistant Editor of the American Oxonian, volume 1, 1914-volume 9, 1922. Sigma Delta Psi Fraternity. Charles Harold Livingston, Ph.D., Professor of Romance Languages Born at Philadelphia, July 4, 1888. A.B. from Harvard, 1910; A.M. from Harvard, 1916; Ph.D. from Harvard, 1920. Assistant Professor of Romance Languages, Haverford College, 1916-17; In- structor in French, Harvard, 1919-20; Professor of Romance Languages, Bowdoin, 1921-. Delta Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa Fraternities. Edward Sanford IIammond, Ph.D., Wing Professor of Mathematics, and Di- rector of Admissions Born at New Britain, Connecticut, April 21, 1893. Fitted at West Haven and New Haven High Schools. A.B. from Yale, 1913; A.M. from Yale, 19x5; Ph.D. from Princeton, 1920. Instructor in Mathematics and History at West Haven High School, 1915-17; Instructor in Mathematics at Princeton, 1918-21; Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Bowdoin, 1921-25; Professor, 1925; Director of Admissions, 1935-. Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and Alpha Tau Omega Fraternities.