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

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RtOYfxI.. if t DLIRPLE. rnfezzur Emeritus, Svgluezter Niles williams: Professor Sylvester Niles VllVlllli1lllS, havi11g eolnpleted with high honor and respeet forty years of serviee as D. N. Cooley Professor of Civil and Sanitary Engineering, was made Professor Emeritus 'and pensioned by the Board of 'Prustees at the Annual lneeting last spring. Professor Williams' first serviees to Uornell were as associate professor of mathematics, whieh position he held previous to a. term of 18 years as librarian. ln the later position he did much to build up the library and for ten years was in eharge of the book and musie department. Like other professors in the early years of Uornel1's history, he negleeted no etfort to assist the eollege in all its interests and for eight sunnners spent the vacations in trying to secure students. The eompletion of the Inter- urban between Cedar ,Rapids and lllount Vernon is due largely to the interest developed by his students, the chief engineer being a graduate of the sehool of engineering, and the preliminary surveys of the entire route being made by Cornell students. The prominence of graduates now filling important engineer- ing positions proves his sueeessful work, and eontinued enthusiasm. His liife has been one of saeritiee and service, devoted to plain living, high thinking and a continual inspiration toward the highest standards of purity and faith.

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ROYAL PURPLE 1 . ii.. x lm ,C ' W is ' . nmmulnuImumnnmnunummulnuulllnlnunmmnlnuuumlu I ni' JN vii PP. .59 IH'IIIllllllllllll l l 'U'N l 'llU ' . -4 :wif N: pf 5 1- in Zllarultg James Elliot Harlan, President. Rev. William Fletcher King, President, Emeritus. Alonzo Collin, Professor of Physics, Emeritus. Rev. Hugh Boyd, Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, Emeritus. Hamline Hurlburt Freer, Dean, and Professor of Political Economy and Sociology. Sylvester Niles Williams, Professor of Civil and Sanitary Engineering. William Harmon Norton, Professor of Geology. William Stahl Ebersole, Secretary, and Professor of Greek and Archaeology. Harry McCormick Kelly, Professor of Biology. Henry Clay Stanclift, Professor of History and Politics. Nicholas Knight, Professor of Chemistry. George Herbert Betts, Professor of Psychology. Charles Reuben Keyes, Professor of the German Language and Literature. Mary Burr Norton, Professor of Mathematics. Mary Lorraine MacLeod, Dean of Women and Director of Physical Training for Women. John Elbert Stout, Professor of Education and Principal of the Academy. Evelyn Carrie Riley, Professor of Latin. John Robert Van Pelt, Professor of Philosophy and Biblical Literature. Guy Mortimer-Knox, Professor of the Romance Languages. Paul Harrison Dike, Professor of Physics. Arthur Eugene Bradley, Professor of Civil Engineering. Albert Samuel Keister, Professor of Political Economy and Sociology.