Rutgers University - Scarlet Letter Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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Arthur Emmet Ahrencis RTI-IUR EUVIMET AI-IRENDS was born in Dearborn County, Indiana, February 5, 1879. He passed through the grammar and high school grades and spent one and a half years at Indiana State Normal School. I-Ie was appointed a cadet to Wfest Point in 1899, and graduated in IQO3, receiving an appointment as Second Lieutenant in the 20th U. S. Infantry. Lieutenant Ahrends served in the Philippine Islands from january, 1904, to March, 1906, and again from july 1, to November 15, 1909. In September, 1909, he was promoted to the grade of First Lieutenant and assigned to the 29th Infantry, with which regiment he served until August, IQIO, when he was detailed as Professor of Military Science and Tactics at Rutgers College. 17

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Henry Briggs North ENRY BRICCS NORTH, was horn at Janesville, W'is,, january 14, 1879. He received his early education at the puhlic schools of that place, and then entered the University of Wisconsin. graduating from the School of Pharmacy in 1902, and getting the degree of l3,Se. in 1904 and the degree of MA. in IQO6 from the same institution. After graduating from the School of Pharmacy Dr. North was made an Instructor in Chemistry at Vlfisconsin and continued in that capacity until 1907, when he resigned his position in order to study alhroad. He entered the Swiss 'Polytechnic School at Zurich in 1907, and the following year was at the University of Paris, working under Professor Le Chatelier, preparing a thesis for which he re- ceived the degree of D.Sc, from the University of Paris in june, 1909. Return- ing to the United States Dr. North became Instructor of Qualitative Analvsis in the Case School of Applied Science. at Cleveland, until called to be Associate Professor of Chemistry at Rutgers College. He is now doing research work with various cements, besides other chemical investigations. He is a mem- ber of the Chemical Fraternity, Alpha Chi Sigma, the American Chemical Society, the American Electro-Chemical Society, and the Societe de chimicue de France. 9 IQ'