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

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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 Academy, Andover, Mass., 1901-05. Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Hobart College, 190s. Professor 1906. Willis Patten Woodman, A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Professor of Latin. A.B. Harvard, 1895. 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 and Greek, Hobart, 1906. I B K Hobart, 1908. Professor of Latin, 1907. Edward John Williamson, A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Professor of Modern Languages. A.B. Queen’s University, Kingston, 1908. A.M., ibid., 1900; tutor in Modern Languages at Queen’s University, 1899-1901; student at the University of Leipzig, 1901-03; lecturer on Modern Languages in St. John’s College, University of Mani- toba, 1904-05; student at the University of Chicago, 1905; fellow in Germanic Languages at University of Chicago, 1906, Ph.D. ibid., 1907. Assistant Professor of German at Hobart. 1907. Travelled in France and Germany, 1910; Professor of German at Hobart, 1910; A.M., Hobart, 1909; Professor of Modern Languages, 1911.

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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

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Elon Howard Eaton, A.B., A.M., Professor of Biology. A.B. Rochester, 1890. A.M., 1893. I B K. Assistant Prin- cipal and Instructor in Sciences, Canandaigua Academy, 1890-95; Master in Sciences, Bradstreet School, Rochester, 1896--1907; Columbia Graduate School of Philosophy, 1899- 1900; Advisory Council, Bird-Lore,” 1902-09. Fellow of the Rochester Academy of Science; Member of the American Ornithologists’ Union; Member of the American Forestry Asso- ciation. Professor of Biology, Hobart, 1908. James Mickel Williams, A.B., Ph.D., Pro- fessor of Economics and Sociology. A.B. Brown University, 1898. Ph.D., Columbia University, 1906. I B K. Lecturer in Vassar College, 1907-08. Pro- fessor of Economics and Sociology at Hobart, 1908. John Muirheid, A.B., A.M., Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Elocution and English. A.B. Columbia University, 1900; A.M., 1901. Student at Ameri- can Academy of Dramatic Arts. Instructor in Rhetoric and English, Hobart College, 1901. Assistant Professor, 1906. d B K.