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

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Charles Delamater Vail, A.B., A.M., L.H.D., Professor Emeritus of Rhet- oric and Elocution and the English Language and Literature. Librarian. A.B. Hobart 1859, A.M., 1862, L.H.D., 1904. t B K. Tutor in Algebra, Hobart, 1869-70; Horace White Professor of Rhetoric and Elocution, and the English Language Professor of Rhetoric and Elocution, and the English Language and Literature, and Instructor in Logic, Hobart, 1872-88; Instructor in Elocution and Registrar, Hobart, 1888-1903. Librarian, 1872-!-. Member Modern Language Association of America. Member Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, University Club of New York. Corresponding Member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Trustee of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society and Member of the Watkins Glen Committee. 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. d B K. Professor of Mathematics, Uni- versity Mound College and Berkeley Gymnasium, 1876-81, Fellow in Mathematics, Johns Hopkins, 1881-83. Pro- fessor of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins, 1881-83. Professor of Mathematics, Hobart, 1883. Author of “Elements of Trigonometry, 1900. Member of New York Mathematical Society. Fellow of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science. Milton Haight Turk, A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Horace White Professor of Rhetoric and the English Language and Literature. Dean of William Smith College. A.B. Columbia, 1886; A.M., Ph.D., University of Leipsic, 1889. l B K. Student in Universities of Strasburg, Berlin, and Leipsic, 1886-89. Adjunct Professor of Rhetoric and English, Hobart 1891, Secretary of the Faculty, 1890-07. Registrar, 1903-07. Author of “The Legal Code of Alfred the Great,” edited with introduction, 1889; “Syllabus of English Literature, 1893; “De Quincey’s Flight of a Tartar Tribe,” edited 1897; “Selections from De Quin- cey,” 1902, and “The English Mail Coach and Joan of Arc,” 1905; Member of Modem Language Association. 9

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Langdon Cheves Stewardson, A.B., B.D., LL.D., President. Professor of Compara- tive Religion and of Historical and Applied Ethics. A. B. Kenyon College, 1873. 1 B K. Graduate Student in Leipsic, Tubingen, Berlin; Member of American Psycho- logical and American Philosophical Association. Society for the Historical Study of Religion (American Oriental Society), Chaplain and Professor of Philosophy, Lehigh University. President of Hobart College, April 8, 1903. LL.D., Kenyon, 1903. LL.D. Alfred, 1904. Joseph Hetherington McDaniels, x .B., A.M., LL.D. Professor Emeritus of the Greek Language and Literature. A. B. (with first honors) Harvard, 1861; A.M. 1870; I B K. Instructor in Lowell High School, 1862-68. Professor Greek Language and Literature, Hobart, 1868. Member of Institute of 1770, Rumford Society. Traveled in Europe, 1872; traveled in Greece 1892; traveled in Europe, 1907, 1911. Professor Emeritus, 1911, LL.D., Hobart, 1911. 8

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John Archer Silver, A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Professor of History. A.B. Princeton, 1886; A.M., 1888. I B K. (J. H. U.), 1895. Instructor in Jaffna College, Ceylon, 1886-88. 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 Philoso- phy in the Graduate Department of the Johns Hopkins University, 1892-95; Ph.D., 1895 (J. H. U.). Author of “The Provisional Government of Maryland (1774-77).” Professor of History. Hobart, 1895; Instructor in Economics and Politics, 1897-1908, Member of the American Historical Association. Member of the Kappa Alpha Society. William Robert Brooks, M.A., D.Sc., P.R.A.S., Professor of Astronomy. M.A. Hobart, 1891. D.Sc., Hamilton, 1898. I B K. Fellow Royal Astronomical Society. Member Selcno- graphical Society of Great Britain. Member British Astronomical Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Lecturer on Astronomv and other subjects since 1870. 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-six comets, the first one Oct. 21, 1881, the twenty- sixth July 20, 1911 • Winner of the ten Warner Gold Prizes for cometary discoveries. Ten medals from the Astronom- ical Society for the Pacific Lisle Observatory. Lalande Medallist of the Paris Academy of Sciences awarded for numerous and brilliant astronomical discoveries. Pro- fessor of Astronomy at Hobart, 1900. Gold Medal for photographs of comet discoveries in Hobart exhibit at Si. Louis World's Fair, 1904. Gold Medal from the Astronomi- cal Society of Mexico, 1906; Gold Medal from the Lick Ob- servatory, 1912. Arthur Avery Bacon, A.B., A.M., Prender- gast Professor of Physics. Secretary and Registrar. A.B. Dartmouth, 1897, A.M., 1901. Tutor in Physics, Obcrlin College, 1897-98. Assistant in Physics, Dart- mouth, 1898-1900. Instructor in Mathematics and Astron- omy, 1900-01. Mathematical Master of Volkmann School, Boston, 1901-03. Professor of Physics, Hobart College, 1903. Member of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science. Member American Physical Society and French Physical Society; Member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. 10