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

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John Archer Silver, A.B., A.M.,Pn.D., Professor of History and Instructor in Economics and Politics. A. B. Princeton, 1SS6; A. M , 1SS8. I B K. (j. II. U ). 1895. Instructor in Jaffna College, Ceylon, 18S6-88. Student at the Episcopal Theological School Cambridge, Mass., 18S8-00. 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.), 1S95. Author of The Provisional Government of Maryland, (1774-77). Professor of History, Hobart, 1895; Instructor in Economics and Politics, 1897. Member of the American Historical As- sociation. Member of the Kappa Alpha Society. The Rev. Joseph Alexander Leighton, A.B., B.D., Ph. D.. Chaplain and Pastor of Hobart College. Professor Philosophy and Psychology. B.A. and Governor General's Medallist in Science Trinity Univer- sity, Toronto. 1891. Graduate Scholar, 1891-3, and Fellow, 189,3- 4, in the Sage School of Philosophy of Cornell University. Ph.D., Cornell, 1894; Student Harvard University and Episcopal Theo- logical School, 1894-96. B.D., Episcopal Theological School, 1896 d1 B K . Assistant, Grace Church, New York, 1896-7. Stu- dent in Beilin and Eilangeii, 1897. Examinei in Philosophy Trinity University, 1895-6. Member of the American Psychological Association and American Philosophi- cal Association. Author of numerous articles and Reviews in the Philosophical Re- view and the Journal of Philosophy; Typical Modern Conceptions « f God, with a Constructive Essay. 1901; What is Personality? in Proceedings of Church Congress for 1902. Jesus Christ and the Civilization of Today.’ 1907. Arthur Avery Bacon, A. B.,A.M., Prender- gast Professor of Physics. A.B. Dartmouth College, 1S97, A.M., 1901. Tutor in Physics, Oberlin College, 1S97-98. Assistant in Physics, Dartmouth, 1S9S-1900. Instructor in Mathematics and Astronomy, 1900-01. Mathematical Master of V dkmann School, Boston, 1901—3. Professor of Physics, Hobart College, 1905. Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Phys- ical Society and French Physical Society. Member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. US

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Francis Philip Nash, A.B., A.M., LL.B., L.H.D., LL.Dm Hobart Professor of the Latin Lan- guage and Literature. A. B. Harvard 1850 ; LL.B. Law School of Harvard University 1859 ; A.M. Harvard 1S66 ; L.H.D. Trinity, Hartford, 1895; LL.D. Union 1895. 4 B K. Practiced law. Hobart Professor of the Latin Language and Lit- erature, Hobart 1869. Made a special study of Roman Antiquities in Europe 1869-71. Author of “Two Satires of Juvenal, with Notes. ' Traveling in Europe, 1907. William Pitt Durfee. A.B., A.M.. Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics and Dean of the Faculty. A. B. University of Michigan 1876 ; A. M.. Ph. D , Johns Hopkins 1883. B K. Professor of Mathematics, University Mound College and Berkeley Gymnasium 1876-81 ; Fellow in Mathematics, Johns Hopkins 1881 83 ; Professor of Mathematics, Hobart 1883. Author «►I “Elements of Trigonometry 1900. Member of New York Mathematical Society. Milton Haight Turk, A.B.. A.M., Ph.D., Horace White Professor of Rhetoric and the English Language and Literature. Secretary and Registrar. A. B. Columbia 1886 ; A. M , Ph. D., University of Leipsic 1889. 4» B K. Student in Universities of Strasburg, Berlin and Leipsic, 1886-89. Adjunct Professor of Rhetoric and English, Hobart 1890-91 . Horace White Professor of Rhe- toric and English, Hobart 1S91 . Secretary of the Faculty, 1890 Registrar 1903. Author of “The Legal Code of Alfred the Great,” edited with introduction 1SS9 ; “Syllabus of English Literature, 1893 ; “ DeQuincey's Flight of a Tartar Tribe, edited 1897 ; “Selections from DeQuincey. (Athenaeum Press Series), 1902: DeQuincey's “The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc, 1905; Member of American Philological Asso- ciation, Modern Language Association. 1 1 2

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M.A. Hobart, 1891. I).Sc., Hamilton, 1898. 1» li K. Fellow Royal Astronomical Society, Member Seleno- graphical Society of Great Britain, Member British As- tronomical Association, Fellow American Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science. Lectur- er on Astronomy and other subjects since 1870 Contributor to literary and scientific periodicals. Early worker in photography and its application to Astron- omy. Established Red House Observatory, 1874. making all its telescopes. Became director of the Smith Observatory in 18S8. Discoverer of twenty-five comets, the first one Oct. 21, 1881, the twenty-fifth Jan. 26, 190O. Winner of ten Warner Gold prizes for eometary discoveries. Seven medals from the Astro- nomical 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. Gold Medal from the Astronomical Society of Mexico, 1906. William Robert Brooks, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.A.S., Professor of Astronomy. John Ernest Lansing, A.B., A.M., Professor of Chemistry. A.B. Harvard, 1898. A M. Harvard, iqoo. Traveled in Europe. 189S 99. Student in Harvard Graduate School, 1899-1901 Instructor in Natural Sciences at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.. 1901-5. Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Hobart College, J905. Pro- fessor, 1906. George Maxwell Howe, A.B., Ph.D., Professi r of Modern Languages and Literature. Indiana State. A.B., 1894; Cornell. Ph.D., 1901: Uni versi t of Leipsic, 1895—48; Cornell, 1899— 1901 ; University of Berlin, »905-9; Instructor in German, Indiana State University, 189J5“95: Dartmouth. 1898-99. Cornell University, 1900 1906. Member Beta Theta Pi Fraternity. Professor of Modern Languages, Hobart College, 1906.