Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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-.... ...,-.-Q A Gbarlesi llbetieri Sinnott A - ,. 1. 1 ' ' 1- .vi --1-11-Q--- 'V' - x - , H ARLES P SINWO1 L was born 111 Duxbuiy Mass ,August 18 18 19 He xi is next to the oldest oi hve sons His boyhood neighhoiinv school He soon showed his taste for teaching, . was spent on a farm, and he obtained ,his early educationrati the , ' .n I rt ' J 1' A , 2 V and, vi hen he 11 as ,but sixteen, successfully ttught for one term a private scl1ool in his native town. 1 Ever since. that time the has heenden- gaged-in educational work, either as ,a teacher, .orra pupil. . W li For a- short time Mr. Sinnott attended XVorcester5Acade111y , .where he completed his preparatioii- forrthe NO1'111E1,l.S.Cl11OOl..' In..1881. was graduated from the four years? course of this school. ,While here he Kyvaszac-tively inter- ested in athletics, for several years serving, as pitchervi on the base, hall nine. President of tl1G'NO1'1H2l,l. Club, or as-it was thenJcalled,,xtli,e Lyceuin. 'He was f A -1 After gijaduation Mr. Sinnottis f1I'S'E1IJQSltlOl1,,NN2l,S at,lQennis,,Mass.d In less than as year he was called .to the University of.Atla11ta, Gai., as Principal of the Normal Departiiient. He 1'91l13,il1GLl,tl161'6l.1'liV6 y,ears,f1'om 1882 to 1837. Besides teaching Science he acted as Superintendennt oftthed, grade schools and conductedlthe courses in the Theory and Practice of .Teaching - up f To the reofret of his many friends in., the South, Mr. Sinnott 1'6l3111'.HNGffl.l3O 'O Massachusetts in 1887, and two .years later obtained the degree of Bachelor of Science if rom fHa1-vard. While in College he specialized. in Gf?O10SYg,aUd served under Prof. Shaler as Assistant onthe Geological Surveylof Eastern Massachusetts, his work being primarily on Glacial and Tertiary Geology. O11 the completion of his course at Harvard, Sinnott was elected to the Chair of Physics in Pratt Institute. Preferring Normal School work, he refused this oiyfer, and went to he 'GB3,Cll6l' of Mathematics and Science in the Milwaukee Normal Scl1ool. His Work developed rapidly there, as the school l l d nd fift ' He Soon dropped the Mathema- grew from sixty to three iunc re a y. tics, and taught only the Advanced Sciences, having an Assistant for the ' ' ' ' 1 ' ' h. l'd much Institute Elementary Courses in Science. While in Wisconsin e L 1 Work, averaging four weeks each year in such lecture and demonstration work. - 9