Hamilton College - Hamiltonian Yearbook (Clinton, NY)

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HAMILTON COLLEGE 9 of Palmyra, lVlo. So it happened that he taught on week-days, and preached on Sundays in the Presbyterian churches of Glasgow and Salisbury, Mo. In 1880 he went back to College Hill to stay, having been appointed assistant to his father in the Department of Mathematics. On the death of the father Dr. Root became full professor of mathematics and the head of the department. He was always in great demand as an oc- casional preacher all over the State of New York, and in 1889 he was called to the pastorate of Christ Dutch Re- formed Church, of Utica. He continued in that pastorate until 18694, carrying on his college work at the same time. The burden of the double work becoming too heavy, he gave up his church to give all his time to the classroom. Dr. Root is the author of many addresses, sermons and speeches, and was the editor of the Columbian and Frank- lin Speakers and the Hamilton Declamation Quarterly. He is the author of an elementary trigonometry, and, with his father, the reviser of Robinson's Surveying. He received the degree of D.D. from Rutgers College in 1890, and that of L.H.D. from Union College at its Centennial in 1895. In the world of science, Dr. Root will be best remem- bered as a mathematician, one of the most brilliant this country has ever produced, and as a teacher. No one who has ever seen him in the pulpit and heard that marvelous eloquence of which he is so consummate a master will gainsay the statement that he is a great preacher. Had he so elected, he might have been a great lawyer, and then we should have known whether there could have been in the same family two as great lawyers as Elihu Root. But teacher, preacher, orator, lawyer-what you will-to the men of Hamilton and the College on the Hill he will be ever and always just plain U Square Root.

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HAMILTON COLLEGE II HERMAN CARL Gaoxoia BRANDT. 0. , A.B., Hamilton, 1872. A.M., Hamilton, 1875. Ph.D., Hamilton, 1896. CID B Kg A A QD. Munxon Prjessor W' the German Lam- guage and Literzziure, 1882. EDWARD FITCH. A.B., Hamilton, 1886. Ph.D., University ofGottingen, 1 896 CID B Kg E. L. S. Edward N orfh PVWZ-65507 gf Greek, 1902 ALBRO DAVID MORRILL. B.S., Dartmouth, 1876. M.S., Dartmouth, 1879. A.M., Belmont, 1885. , fl? B K- - L I Prqfessor qfBi0Zagy,v 1891.