Hobart College - Echo of the Seneca Yearbook (Geneva, NY)

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14 THE ECHO OF THE SENECA Howard Parker Jones, A.B., A.M., Pu.D., Professor of Ike German and French Languages and Literatures. A. 14. King’s College, Nova Scotia, 1884, A.M. 1891 ; Student Heidelberg University 1884- 86 ; Ph.D. 1886; at Paris 1886-7. Professor of Modern Languages, King’s College, N.S., 1888 -92. Instructor in German, Cornell University, 1893-98. Author of “ Jones’s Ger- man Reader,” Associate Professor of the German and French Languages and Literatures, Hobart 1898-9; Professor of the German and French Languages and Literatures, 1901. William Robert Brooks, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.A.S., Professor of Astronomy. M.A. Hobart 1891. D.Sc. Hamilton 1898. I B K. Fellow Royal Astronomical Society, Member Selenographical Society of Great Britain, Member British Astronomical Associa- tion, Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Lecturer on Astronomy and other subjects since 1870. Contributor to literary and scientific perodicals. Early worker in photography and its application to Astronomy. Established Red House Observa- tory, 1874, making all its telescopes. Became director of the Smith Observatory in 1S88. Discoverer of twenty-four comets, the first one on October 21, iSSr, the twenty-fourth on April 16, 1904. Winner of ten Warner Gold Prizes for cometary discoveries. Seven medals from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Lick Observatory. Lalande Medallist of the Paris Academy of Sciences awarded “ for numerous and brilliant astronomical discoveries.” Frofessor of Astronomy Hobart 1900, Gold Medal for photographs of comet discoveries in Hobart exhibit St. Louis World’s Fair 1904. John Muirheid, A.B., A.M., Instructor in Rhetoric, Elocution and English. A.B. Columbia University 1900, A.M. 1901; Student at American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Instructor in Rhetoric and English, Hobart College 1901. Instructor in Elocution 1903. Herbert Raymond Moody, S.B., A.M., Pn.D., Professor of Chemistry. S.B. Mass. Inst, of Technology 1S92. A.M. School of Mines 1900. Ph.D. Columbia (Faculty of Pure Science) 1901. Instructor in General Chemistry, Mass. Inst, of Tech. 1S92-94. Instructor in Analytical Chemistry, Mass. Inst. Tech. 1894-95. Instructor in Science, Gilbert School, Winsted, Conn., 1895-1900. Post Graduate Student Columbia University 1900-01. Professor of Chemistry, Iiobart College 1901. Author of “ Reactions at the Temperature of the Electric Arc ” and of various articles in current chemical journals. Member of American Chemical Society, London Society of Chemical Industry, and KsS (Mass. Inst. Tech.). James Drew Regan, A.B., Instructor in German and French. A.B. Amherst College 1900. Two years in Germany and France. Amherst 1899-1900, Instructor in the German and French Languages, Hobart College, 1902.

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VOLUME XLIV, 1905 13 William Pitt Durfee, A.B., A.M., Pii.D., Professor of Mathematics and Dean of the Faculty. A.B. University of Michigan 1S76; A.M., Ph.D., Johns Ilopkins 1883. 4» B K. Professor of Mathematics, University Mound College and Berkeley Gymnasium 1876-81 ; Fellow in Mathematics, Johns Hopkins 1SS1-S3; Professor of Mathematics, Hobart 1883. Author of “ Elements of Trigonometry ” 1900. Member of New York Mathematical Society. Milton Haigiit Turk, A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Horace White Professor of Rhetoric and the English Language and Literature. Secre- tary and Registrar. A.B. Columbia 18S6; A.M., Ph.D. University of Leipsic 1889. f B K. Student in Uni- versities of Strasburg, Berlin and I.eipsic, 1885-89. Adjunct Professor of Rhetoric and English, Hobart 1890-91. Horace White Professor of Rhetoric and English, Hobart 1891. Secretary of the Faculty 1S90. Registrar 1903. Author (1889) “ The Regal Code of Alfred the Great,’’edited with introduction; (1893) “Syllabus of English Literature;” (1897) “DeQuincey’s Flight of a Tartar Tribe,” edited with introduction and notes ; (1902) “Selections from DeQuincey,” edited with introduction and notes (Athenaeum Press Series). Member of American Philological Association, Modern Language Association. John Archer Silver, A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Professor of History and Instructor in Economics and Politics. A. B. Princeton 1S86; A.M. 1888. Instructor in Jaffua College, Ceylon, 1886-88. Student at the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Mass., 1888-90. Student of Philosophy and History in the Universities of Berlin, Heidelberg and Paris, 1890-92. Student of His- tory and Philosophy in the Graduate Department of the Johns Hopkins University, 1892-95 ; Ph.D. (J. H. U.) 1895. Author of “ The Provisional Government of Maryland (1774- 77).” Professor of History, Hobart, 1895; Instructor in Economics and Politics, 1897. 3» B K. (J. II. U.) 1895. Member of the American Historical Association. Member of the Kappa Alpha Society. The Rev. Joseph Alexander Leighton, A.B., B.D.,Pn.D., Chaplain and Pastor Hobart College. Professor Philosophy and Psychology. B. A. and Governor General’s Medallist in Science, Trinity University, Toronto, 1891. Graduate Scholar 1S91-3, and Fellow 1893-4, in the Sage School of Philosophy of Cornell University. Ph.D. Cornell 1894 ; Student Harvard University and Episcopal Theological School 1894-6. B.D. Episcopal Theological School 1S96. Assistant, Grace Church, New York, 1896-7. Student in Berlin and Erlangen 1897. Examiner in Philosophy, Trinity University 1S93-6. Member of the American Psychological Association. Author of “The Study of Individuality,” “The Infinite New and Old,” (1902), and numerous articles and reviews in the Philosophical Review and the Journal of Philosophy ; “ Typical Modem Con- ceptions of God, with a Constructive Essay,” 1901 ; “ What is Personality?”in Proceedings of Church Congress for 1902. Vice-President of American Philosophical Association.

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VOLUME XLIV, 1905 15 Arthur Avery Bacon, Professor of Physics. A.B. Dartmouth College 1897; A.M. 1901. Tutor in Physics, Oberlin College, ’97-’98. Assistant in Physics, Dartmouth 9S-’oo. Instructor in Mathematics and Astronomy 1900- ’01. Mathematical master of Volkmann School, Boston, i9ot-’o3. Professor of Physics, Hobart College 1903. Is a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and of the American Association for the advancement of Science. Cecil Thayer Derry, A.B., A.M. A.B. Harvard 1903 ; A.M. Harvard 1904. 4» B K. Studied in the Harvard Graduate School, I903 ’04. Instructor in Latin and Greek in Hobart College, 1904. Howard Cousens Griffin. A.B. Bowdoin College 1904. Assistant in Chemistry at Bowdoin i903 ’o4. Instructor in Chemistry Hobart College, 1904. A A 4» and 4 B K fraternities. Hon. Hampton L. Carson, “ American History as illustrated by Portraiture. Hon. Thomas A. Osborne, “ Beethoven'.' Prof. Felix Adler, LL.D., “ Duty of College Men to the State. Prof. Charles F. Binns, Ph.D., “ The History and Manufacture of Pottery'.' Hon. Thomas A. Osborne, HerttuTHL 1904-1305 11 Schubert Prof. William Harrison Mace, Ph.D., il Lincoln and Douglas