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Life of Dr. Francis Cuyler Van Dyck. mnnnnnnl R. VAN DYCK was born june 3d, 1844, at Coxsackie, N. Y. XVhen quite young he showed a great in- terest in mechanical and scientific inventions, and his greatest delight was to be in the com- pany of mechanics. He attended the village district school and later an academy nearby. Having taken a course at the Cnion Pre- paratory School at Schenectady. he entered Vyilliams College. At the invitation of Dr. Cook, at the close of his freshman year there, he came to Rutgers and finished his college education. From that time until the present he has always been identified with this college. He entered heartily into athletics, and posses- sed to an overflowing degree, the true college spirit that every college man ought to have. He soon joined the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, and also the Peithessopthian Liter- ary Society. Dr. Yan Dyck was one of the junior orators of his class and took fourth honor at graduation. The Suydiam Prize in Natural Science was won by him. After receiving his degree he took a special course in chemistry under Dr. Cook, and assisted him in preparing for his lectures. In 1866 he became a tutor at Rutgers, teach- ing a number of subjects. VVhen he was twenty-four years old the degree of Master of Arts was conferred on him by Rutgers, and two years later he was appointed Professor of Analytical Chemistry. During this time, in connection with two other New Brunswick gentlemen, he founded the New Jersey State Microscopical Society, of which the was presi- dent for many years. Doctor Yan Dyck felt that he needed more study in his line of work, before begin- ning his professorship, and accordingly went to Europe. The Franco-Prussian Wlar, which had begun in earnest by the time he reached there, greatly inconvenienced him in locating. He was able, however, to study privately under some of the greatest physicists and chemists in Europe. His attention was not solely de- voted to chemistry and physics, 'but he also studied mining at lfreiberg in Saxony, and the great Clm and Dresden organs for their acoustic principles. The lierlin and Greenwich Observatories, the Royal Mint at Vienna, the Woolwich Ar- senal, and the Tubular Bridge at the Menai Straits, occupied his attention for some time. The zoological gardens of England and Ger- many, particularly the Kew Gardens, were visited for the purpose of study. Doctor Van Dyck immediately assumed the duties of his professorslhip ufpon his return, and established a course in Analytical Chem- istry which has developed into the present chemical course. I-Ie 'also lectured on Inor- ganic Chemistry, of which subject he was made Professor in 1878. In 1880 he was ap- pointed Professor of Physics, a most coveted
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chair, and in 1882 he became Professor of Experimental Mechanicsf His ambition Was now fully satisfied, and these tyvo chairs have been Hlled by him up to tlhe present -time. In 1888 the lhonorary degree of Doctor of Phil- osophy was conferred on hi-m by Union College. In 1890 he established ia regular electrical course, having been induced to do so by the n-u-merous students he had had under him taik-ng special private courses in electricity. In the fall of 1897 Doctor Van Dyck was given complete charge of the Senior Electricals, who had previously been in the hands of an assist- ant. At the urgent request of theTrustees of the College, in June, 1901, Doctor Van Dyck con- sented to act as dean, and the duties of that oflice as president of the self-government board, have been discharged by him to the complete satisfaction of the faculty and the student body. His kindly interest in each student who has ever come under his instruc- tion, has endeared him to the hearts of all that have ever known him in the pleasant relations that exist between professor and student.
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