Cornell College - Royal Purple Yearbook (Mount Vernon, IA)

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ALONZO COIQLIN

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Inscription To Professor Alonzo Collin. Dear friend, to you our homage we would pay. Your noble work Cornell cannot forget: To her you gave your manhood's younger dayg To her your services are rendered yet.' Kind sir, this volume at your feet we lay, In humble recognition of her debt. THE CLASS OF 1906

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Professor Alonzo Collin, M. A. Sc. D. Long periods of faithful and successful service should have recogni- tion, and the Junior Annual Board has done a graceful thing in dedicating this volume to Professor Alonzo Collin who became professor in Cornell College in 1860. Since that time there have been but two interruptions to the continuity of his work, one for the part of a term in 1873 when he was traveling in Europe, and the other during the school year of 1881 and 1882, when he was Professor of Chemistry and Experimental Physics in the State University of Nebraska, a position which he resigned in order to return to Cornell, from which, and from relatives and friends in Mount Vernon, he did not care to be long separated. The'se absences may well be considered as mere vacations, and this year practically completes forty- five years of work for the institution to which he has given the unselfish devotion of his life. Coming to Cornell when only two years of its history as a school of collegiate rank had passed, and when the total number of its graduates was only seven, he has seen class after class go forth with the honors of the institution until over a thousand names appear on its Alumni roll. With all of the earlier graduates he was intimately acquainted as they were mem- bers of some of his classes. In an early day he taught many different sub- jects, and all testify to his thorough and extended scholarship in every branch in which he gave instruction, whether it was mathematics, language or science. Commencing with mathematics and natural science as the work assigned, and teaching all classes in mathematics, physics. chemis- try, astronomy and other subjects he lived to see such a growth in the school that his time is fully occupied with his large classes in physics, which subject he has taught exclusively for several years. Prof. Collin was married in 1868 to Chloe Matson, a Cornell graduate, class of 1865. She has made their beautiful home a social center, in which their two daughters grew to womanhood and were married, Ruth to Mr. George Burge of Mount Vernon, and Margaret, to Professor Arthur M. Jayne of Dakota-Wesleyan University. Prepared for college at Amenia Seminary, Professor Collin was gradu- ated from Wesleyan University at Middletown, Conn., in 1858, and re- ceived the degree of M. A. from the same institution in 2862. In 1888 Upperlowa University conferred upon him the-degree of Doctor of Science. He has for a longtime been a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Fellow in that body since 1898. He was at graduation made a member of the Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa at 6