Columbia University - Columbian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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FREDERICK REMSEN HUTTON, E.M., C,E., Ph.D., EMILY JAMES PUTNAM, AB., JAMES EARL RUSSELL, Ph.D. Dean ofthe Faculty of Applied Science. Dean of Barnard College. Dean of Teachers College. JAMES HULME CANFIELD, A.M., LL.D., GEORGE R. VAN DE WATER, WATSON LEWIS SAVAGE, A.M., M.D Librarian. , Chaplain. CC0PyriglIv.ed.I Director or the Gymnasium.

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JOHN W. BURGESS, PILD., LL.D., Dean of the Faculty of Political Science. l WILLIAAK A. KEENER, LL.D., Dean of the Faculty of Law. JAMES W. MCLANE, NLD., NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER, Ph D.. LL D Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. Dean of the FacultyofPl1ilosuphy, JOHN l-IOWARD VAN AmR1NGE, Ph.D., L.H,D., LL.D.. ROBERT SIMPSON WOODXVARD, Dean of the College. Dean of the Faculty of Pure Science

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members of faculties and Ceacbing Staff SETH LOW, LL.D., PRESIDENT or THE UNIVERSITY Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., january 18, 1850, member of the iirm of A. A. Low Sc Brothers from l875Q president of the Bureau of Charitiesof Brooklyn, Mayor of the city, 1882-85 , A.B., Columbia College, l87OQ Honorary LL.D., Amherst College and University of the State of New York, 1889, LL.D., Harvard, University of Pennsylvania and Trinity, 1890, and Princeton, 1896, chosen presi- dent of Columbia, 1889, Citizens' Union candidate for Mayor of New York, 1896, president, Archaeological Institution of America, vice-president, New York Academy of Sciencesi, delegate and chairman of the American delegation to the Peace Conference at The Hague, 1899. PROFESSORS Joi-IN HOWARD VAN AMRINGE, Ph.D., L.H.D., LL.D., Dean qf Colwzzbfa College and Pnykssor zyf illaMeu1a1'z'rs. dent, a vice-president of the American Meteorological Society, a member of the Academy of Political Science, of the Dunlap Society, and of the Century, City, Church and Metropolitan Clubs of New York, a trustee of the A.B., Columbia College, 1860, A.M., 1863, L.H.D., 1890, Ph.D., University of the State of New York, 1877 , LL.D.. Union College, N. Y., 1895? acted as professor of Latin in the spring of I86O before his graduation, tutor in mattiematics, 1860-63, adjunct professor, 1863-65 , lec- turer on mathematics in School of Mines on its founda- tion in November, 1864, and professor, 1865, professor and head of the department of mathematics in the college, the Schools of Applied Science and the School of Pure Science, Columbia University 3 dean of Columbia College, acting president of Columbia University the latter part of the Academic year 1898-99, during President Low's absence at The Hague, member of the standing commit- tee of the Association of the Alumni of Columbia Col- lege, 1860, chairman of Columbia University Alumni Council , one of the founders of the New York, now the American, Mathematical Society and its first presi- City Club , a trustee of the New York Protestant Episco- pal School , a trustee' ofthe Protestant Episcopal Society for Promoting Religion and Learning in the State of New York, a trustee of the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, and a vestryman of Trinity Church, New York city, editor of Dazfier' Series Qf1lI1zihema!z'cs,' author of numerous articles on mathematical and other topics in various jour- nals and magazines and in johvzszmlv Qfclopafciizz, and of many articles, historical and other, on Columbia College and University. OGDEN NICHOLAS Roon, A.M., P7'm'SS07'Wf Physics. Born in Danbury, Conn., 1831 , graduated from Princeton, 1852 , spent two years at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale , student abroad at the Universities of Mu- nich and Berlin, 1854-57 , appointed professor of physics