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

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William Robert Brooks, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.A.S., Professor of Astronomy. M.A. Hobart, 1891. D.Sc., Hamilton, 1898. B K. Fellow Royal Astronomical Society. Member Seleno- graphical Society of Great Britain, Member British Astro- nomical Association, Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Lecturer on Astronomy and other subjects since 1870. Contributor to literary and scientific periodicals. Early worker in photography and its application to Astronomy. Established Red House Observatory, 1874, making all its telescopes. Became director of the Smith Observatory in 1888. Discoverer of twenty-five comets, the first one Oct. 21, i88r, 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. Gold Medal from the Astronomical Society of Mexico, 1906. John Muirheid, A.B., A.M., Assistant Professor of 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. Assistant Professor, 1906. 4 B K. John Ernest Lansing, A.B., A.M., Professor of Chemistry. A.B. Harvard, 1898. A.M. Harvard, 1900. Travelled in Europe, 1898-99. Student in Harvard Graduate School, 1899-1901. Instructor in Natural Sciences at Phillips Aca- demy, Andover, Mass., 1901-5. Assistant Professor of Chemis- try at Hobart College, 1905. Professor, 1906. 20

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John Archer Silver, A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Professor of History and Instructor in Economics and Politics A B. Princeton. iSS6; A.M., 1888. ‘I 15 K. (}. H. U.), 1895. Instructor in Jaffna 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 History and Philosophy in the Graduate Department of the Johns Hopkins University, 1892-95; Ph I) ., (J II.U ), 1895. 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 Association. 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, 1893 4, in the Sage School of Philosophy of ('ornell University. Ph.D.. Cornell. 1894; Student Harvard University and Episcopal Theo- logical School. 1S94-9O. B.D.. Episcopal Theological School, 1896 1 B K Assistant, Grace Church, New York. 1896-7. Stu- dent in Berlin and Erlangen, 1897. Examiner in Philosophy Trinity University 1895-6 Member of the American Psychological Association and American Philosophi- cal Association. Author f numerous articles and Reviews in the Philosophical Review and the Journal of Philosophy; Typical Modern Conceptions of God, with a Construc- tive 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., Frender- gast Professor of Physics. Secretary and Registrar. A B. Dartmouth College, 1897, A.M , 1901. Tutor in Physics,Oberlin College, 1897-98. Assistant in Physics, Dartmouth, 1898-1900 Instructor in Mathematics and Astronomy, 1900-01 Mathematical Master of Yolkmann School, Boston, 1901—3. Professor of Phy- sics, Hobart College, 1903. Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Physical Society and French Physical Society; Member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity.

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WiLi.rs Patten Woodman, A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Instructor in Latin and Greek. A.B Harvard, 1805. A.M., 1896. Ph.D., 1902. Student at American School of Classical Studies in Rome, 1899- 1900. Instructor in Greek, Princeton University, 1902-3. Master in Classics, Morristown School. 1904-5. Instructor in Latin, Hobart, 1906. Herbert Hilarion Yeames, A.B., A.M., In- structor in Latin and Greek. A.B. Harvard, 1895. A M., 1896. B K. Teacher in private school, Buffalo, X. V ., 1896-8 Private Secretary to the Bishop of Massachusetts, Boston, 1898-1904. Instructor in Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Mass., 1904-6. Travelled in Europe, summer of 1906 Instructor in the Boston Latin School, Instructor in Hobart College, 1906. Memher of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. Robert Mills Beach, B.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor Romance Languages. Yale, 1879-81, Teacher ('lassies and Modern Languages, Springfield High School, Mass., Holderncss Prep. School, New Hampshire, Newark Academy, Newark, X. J., St. Paul’s School, L. I B.D. Epis. Theol. School, 1895, Cambridge, Mass., (Thesis: Life and Times of Savonarola) Ph.I). Univ. of Penn., 1907, (Thesis. Traces of Greek Literature in the Obras Poeticus and the A uotacioncs sobre Garcilaso of Francesco Herrera) 2 I