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

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12 Tl IE ECHO OF THE SENECA John Archer Silver, A.B., A.M., Pn.IX, Profes- sor of History and Instructor in Economics and Politics. A. IE Princeton, iSSfi; A.M. iNSS. J B l . (J. H. U.) 1895. Instructo in JatTua College, Ceyl u, 1SS6-SX. Student at the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Mass., 1888-90. Stu- dent of Philosophy and History in the Universities of Berlin. Heidelberg and Paris, 1890-92. Student of History and Philos ophy in the Graduate Department of the Johns Hopkins Univer- sity, 1S92-95 ; Ph.I). (J. II. U.) 1895. Author of “The Pro- visional Government of Maryland (1774-77).” Professor of His- tory. Hobart, 1S95; Instructor in Economics and Politics, 1897. Member of the American Historical Association. Member of the Kappa Alpha Society. The Rev. Joseph Alexander Leighton, A.B., B.l Ph.I)., Chaplain and Pastor of Hobart Colic. Professor Philosophy and Psychology. TEA. and Governor General’s Medallist in Science, Trinity University, Toronto, oStji. Graduate Scholar 1S91 ;, and Eellow 1X9J-4. in the Sage School of Philosophy of Cornell University. Ph.D. Cornell 1894 4 Student Harvard I Diversity and Episcopal Theological School 1894-96. IE D. Episcopal Theological School 1S96. fI B K. Assistant, Grace Church, New York, 1896-7. Student in Berlin and Erlangen 1897. Examiner in Philosophy,Trinity University 1893-6. Member of the American Psychological Association. Author of “The Study of Individuality,” “The Inlinite New and Old,” (1902), and numerous ai tides and Reviews in the Philosophical Review and th t Journal of Philosophy: “Typical Modern Conceptions of God, with a Constructive Essay,” 1901 ; “ What is Per- sonalityV in Proceedings of Church Congress for 1902. Vice-President of American Philosophical Association. lowARD Parker Jones, A.IT, A.M., Ph.I)., Profes- sor of the German and French Languages and Literatures. A.IE Kings College. Nova Scotia. iSS.p A.M.,1891 ; Student Iieidel- beig University 1884-86; Ph.D. 18S6; at Paris 18S6-7. 'P B K. Professor of Modern Languages, King’s College, N. S., iSS8-g2. Instructor in German, Cornell University, 1893-9S. Author of “Jones’s German Reader,” Associate Professor of the German ami French Languages and Literatures, Hobart 189S-9; Professor of deiman and French Languages and Literatuies, 1901.

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VOLUME XLV, 1906 Francis Philip Nash, A. 13., A.M., LL.13., L.l I.IF, LL.I)., Hobart Professor of the Lathi Lari- oiunje amt Literature. o o A.B Harvard 1856; LL.B. Law School of Harvard University 1859; A.M. Harvard 1866; L.il.l). Trinity. Hartford, 1895; I.L.l). Union 1S95. I B K. Practiced law. 11 obart Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, Ilobart 1869. Made a special study of Roman Antiquities in Europe 1869-71. Author of Two Satires of Juvenal, with Notes. ’ William Pitt Durfee, A.13., A.M , Pn. Professor of Mathematics ami Dean of Faculty. A.B. University of Michigan 1S76; A.M., Ph D., Johns Hop- kins 1SS3. B K. Professor of Mathematics, University Mound College and Berkeley (lymnasium 1876-81 ; Fellow in Mathematics, Johns Hopkins 1.881-83; Professor of Mathe- matics, Hobart 1SS3. Author of “Elements of Trigonome- try” 1900. Member of New York Mathematical Society. Milton Haight Turk, A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Horace White Professor of Rhetoric ami the linglish Language ami Literature. Secretary and Registrar. A.B. Columbia 1886; A.M., Ph.I)., University of Leipsic 1889. 1 H K. Student in Universities of Strasburg, Berlin and Leip ic, 1886-S9. Adjunct Professor of Rhetoric and English, Hobart 1890-91. Horace White Professor of Rhetoric and English, Hobart 1S91. Secretary of the Faculty, 1890. Registrar 1903. Author of “The Legal Code of Alfred the Creat, ’ edited with intioduction 1889; “Syllabus of English Literature,” 1893; “ DeQuincey’s Flight of a Tar- tar Tribe,” edited with introduction and notes, 1897; “Selections from DeQuincey,” edited with introduction and notes (Athenaeum Press Series), 190J. Member of American Philolog- ical Association, Modern Language Association.

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VOLUME XLV, 1906 John Ernest Lansing, A.B., A.M., Assistant Pro- fessor of Chemistry. A.B. Harvard 1S9S. .M. Harvard 1900. Traveled in Kurope 1898-99. Student in Harvard Graduate Sehoo 1S99-1901. Instructor in Natural Sciences at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. 1901-5. Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Hobart College 1905. William Robert Brooks, M.A., I).Sc., F. R. A. S., Professor oj A s ronom r. M.A. Hobart 189». I).Sc. Hamilton 1898. J B K. Fellow Royal Astronomical Society, Member Selenographic.il Societv of Great Britain, Member British Astronomical Association, Fellow American Association for the Advance- ment of As:ronomy. Lecturer on Astronomy and other subjects since 1870. Contributor to literary and scientific periodicals. Karly worker in photography and its applica- tion to Astronomy. Established Red House Observatory, 1874, making all its telescopes. Became director of the Smith Observatory in 1888. Discoverer of twenty-live comets, the first one Oct. 21, 18S1, the twenty-fifth Jan. 26, 1906. 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.” Professor of Astronomy Hobart 1900, Gold Medal for photographs of comet discoveries in Hobart exhibit St. Louis World’s Fair 1904. Aktiilr Avery Bacon, A.B., A.M., Prouder- !fOis y Professor of Physics. A.B. Dartmouth College 1897, A.M. 1901. Tutor in Physics Oberlin College, 1897-98. Assistant in Physics, Dart- mouth 1898-1900. Instructor in Mathematics and Astron- omy 1900-01. Mathematical Master of Volkmann School, Boston, 1901—3. Professor of Physics, Hobart College 1905. Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member of tire Phi Delta Theta Fraternity.