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

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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

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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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Edward John Williamson, A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Asst. Professor of German. A.B. Queen’s University, Kingston, 1898. A M. ibid., 1900; tutor in modern languages at Queen’s University, 1899-1901; student at the University of Leipzig, 1901— 1903; lecturer on modern languages in St. John’s Col- lege, University of Manitoba, 1904-1905; student at the University of Chicago, 1905; fellow in Germanic languages at University of Chicago, 1906. Ph D. ibid, 1907. Assist- ant professor of German at Hobart, 1907. Robert Thomas Stokes, B.S., Instructor in Chemistry. B.S. Dartmouth, 1905. Assistant in Chemistry, Dart- mouth College, 1906-1907. Instructor in Chemistry, Hobart College, 1907. Member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. Winfield Supply Barney, A.B., Instructor in Physics. A.B., magna cum laude, Dartmouth, 1903. Temporary holder of Henry Pacher fellowship in 1904, studying Romance Languages at the Harvard Graduate School. In 1906-07, principal of the High School at Canaan, N. H. Instructor in Physics at Hobart, 1907. 22