Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn - Polywog Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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mv vii FRED VV,xsH1NuToN Arluxsux 1,l't'Jidt'llf of Ihr l,0lj'ft'l'l1lliC Insfiiutc of lirouklyn Born in Reading, Mass., 18655 A.B., Harvard University, 18905 Ph.D., University of Leipzig, 18935 Head of Science Department, Westfield, Massachusetts, High School, 1890-915 University of Berlin, 18915 University of Halle, 18925 Universities of Jena and Sorbonne, 1893-945 Princi- pal, Springfield, Massachusetts, High School, 1894-19005 General Superintendent of Education, Philippine Islands, 1900-035 Superintendent of Schools, Newton, Mass., 1903-045 President, Poly- technic Institute of Brooklyn, from 19045 Member, Board of Education, New York City 1915- 185 Author of The Philippine Islands. A pomegranate, which if cut deep down the middle, shows a heart within blood-tinctured of a veined 'hunian1ty, Nine

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ts Ten GEORGE STUART COLLINS Professor of Modern LUM-gli!-CIQCS Patriarch of American Club, Leipzigg Ph.D., University of Leipzig, 18923 Student in Fransce, Italy, and Germany 1885- 925 Professor of the German Language and Literature, Poly- technic Institute of Brooklyn, 1892-19053 Professor of German and Spanish 1905-17, Professor of Modern Languages from 1917. Nature a thousand ways complains, . A thousands words express her pains, But for her laughter has but three, And very small, Ha, ha, he. IRVING WETUERBEE FAV Professor of Clzlcmfistry A.B., Harvard University, 1886: Ph.D., Berlin University, 18965 Instructor in Science, Mlontpclier Seminary, M'ontpelier, Ver- mont, 1886-87g Instructor in Physics and Chemistry, Belmont School, Belmont, California, 1887-933 Student at Heidelaberg University, 1893-94, and Berlin University, 1894-965 Parker Fellow of Harvard University. 1895-96, Instructor in Chemistry, University of Maine, 18963 Professor of Chemistry, Ohio Uni- versity, 1896-97, Lecturer in Chemistry, Brooklyn Institute, from 18993 Professor of Chemistry, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, from 1897. Wfhat thought that light, thru' storm and night, So trembled from afar- What could there be more purely bright In Truth's day-star. JONATHAN BRACE CIIITTENIJEN Professor of Ilflathcmotirs dm A qu: B.S., Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 18885 B.A., Harvard Unive-rsity, 1889: A.M., 18905 Kirkland Fellow, 18911 Parker Fellow, 1892, Ph.D., Konigsberg University, 18935 Instructor of Mathematics, Princeton University, 1893-95, Instructor of Mathematics, Columbia University and Barnard College, 1895-1900, Admitted to the New York Bar, 19015 Professor of Mathematics, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, from 1900: Fellow, A.A.A.S., Member, A.M.S.: Author, Theory of Functions of Lame, also Theory of Potential Functions, Trigonometry, Squ'aring the Circle, and Quaternions in the Encyclopedia Americana. Full well they laughed, with connterfeitecl glee, At all his Jokes, for many a joke had he.