Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Technique Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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X, 10 TECHNIQUE Vol.XXV This was the first of its kind in the country, and one of the Hrst in the world. The Institute at the time was averse, for financial reasons, to the opening of a new course, but Professor Cross, from his knowl- edge of the growing electrical industries, was led to a firm belief in its practicability. He instituted a series of optional lectures on the Industrial Applications of Electricityf, and these had such a large attendance that he was induced to suggest to President VValker the introduction of the study of Electrical Engineering as an option in Course VIII. The option very soon developed into a separate course, and from five years after its establishment to the present day it has always been one of the threefmost popular courses at the In- stitute. Professor Cross was in charge of the department for twenty years. , Professor Cross has held many public offices. He was president of the Appalachian lVIountain Club in 1880. At the foundation of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers he was one of the original vice-presidents. He acted as chairman of one of the three sections of the International Electrical Congress held in connection with the Columbian VVorld,s Fair at Chicago in 1893. During the past ten years he has been chairman of the Rumford Committee of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among other scientific bodies, Professor Cross is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the British Association, the American Physical Society, the Physical Society of France, the Astronomical and Astrophysical Society, and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Professor Cross has acted as adviser and expert in many matters of litigation relating to electrical patents. He was the principal expert for the Bell Company in all its suits upon the Bell patents, and has been connected with most of the great electrical cases of the past thirty years. He has published many papers on acoustics and te- lephony, and has lectured publicly on almost every branch of pure and applied physics. In the regular Institute course in Physics he has instructed about half the Faculty. A firm believer in the Institute and its ideals, a man always enthusiastic for its success and welfare, a sincere friend of every earnest student, Professor Cross stands out as a pioneer' of applied science, a promoter of learning, and an encourager of the true Institute spirit.

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Life Members X, 1, 2 2 112- lim. ' 32 1 ' ' ' :ag H: ' A19 A Viixeaa- ' , E, -4 F-!f31,!i!i-1!KZ!L'.. f 'i f 4- -1 E-ff -. Q: uf AT' ' 'A' . 5 President Secretary RICHARD C. MACLAURIN JAMES P. MUNROE Treasurer WILLIAM B. THURBER WILLIAM HOWARD CHARLES CHARLES FRANCIS JAMES P. HOWARD ENDICOTT A. CARSON J. PAINE FAIRCHILD H. WILLIAMS TOLMAN STOCKTON NATHANIEL THAYER CHARLES F. CHOATE HIRAM F. MILLS PERCIVAL LOWELL CHARLES C. JACKSON SAMUEL M. FELTON DESMOND FITZGERALD CHARLES W. HUBBARD THOMAS L. LIVERMORE A. LAWRENCE ROTCH GEORGE WIGGLESWORTH JOHN R. FREEMAN WILLIAM H. LINCOLN J. B. SEWALL A. LAWRENCE LOWELL JAMES P. MUNROE WILLIAM L. PUTNAM EBEN S. DRAPER ROBERT S. PEABODY ELIHU THOMSON ELLIOT C. LEE JAMES P. STEARNS LUCIUS TUTTLE FREDERICK P. FISH FRANCIS L. HIGGINSON CHARLES A. STONE W. MURRAY CRANE FRANCIS R. HART T erm e:vpire.s' Dlarch, 1911- CHARLES T. MAIN FREDERICK W. WOOD T. COLEMAN DU PONT T erm empires M arch, 1913 JAMES W. ROLLINS, JR. EVERETT MORSS ARTHUR T. BRADLEE Term Members Term expires Ilflarch, 191Q GEORGE W. KITTREDGE FRANK G. STANTIAL GEORGE E. HALE Term expires 111 arch, 191-L WALTER B. SNOW THEODORE W. ROBINSON CHARLES R. RICHARDS Representatives of the Commonwealth Hrs EXCELLENCY, EBEN S. DRAPER, Governor HON. IVIARCUS P. KNOYVLTON, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court DAVID SNEDDON, C'ommi.s'sioner of Education E121