University of Delaware - Blue Hen Yearbook (Newark, DE)

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Allan R. Cullimore, C. E., Dean of Engineering and Professor of Civil En- gineering. William F. Hoey, Jr., First Lieutenant, 12th Infantry, Professor of Military Science and Tactics and Commandant of Cadets. Harold E. Tiffany, M. S., Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Zacharya H. Srager, B. S., Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. George Elliott Button, M. A., Assistant Professor of English. Arthur Craig Wiiittier, B. S., Assistant Professor of Agricultural Chemistry. Howard K. Preston, C. E., Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Engineering. Raymond R. Pailtiiorp, B. S. Assistant Professor of Horticidture. William J. McAvoy, C. E., Physical Director and Assistant Professor of Math- ematics. Kent Roberts Greenfield, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of History and Ec- onomics. Horace V. Cory, B. S., Jnstrnctor in Poultry Husbandry. Mark L. Nichols, B. S., Assistant Professor of Agronomy. Mansel p. Grimes, B. S., Assistant Professor of Animal Husbandry. Lewis A. Belding, M. E., Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Electrical En- gineering. Reeves Dyer String, Instructor in Shop Work. Frederick J. Poiil, M. A., Instructor in English. C. H. Rawlins, Jr., Ph. D., Instructor in Mathematics. Paul W. Boutwell, Ph. D., Instructor in Chemistry. Claude C. Spiker, M. A., Instructor in Modern Languages. A. W. Bernhardt, B. A., Instructor in Modern Languages. 112]

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EDWARD LAURENCE SMITH Dean Smith was born on March 19, 1877, at Newark, Delaware. When fifteen years of age he entered Delaware College, and won his B. A. degree in 1896. The following two years he was a post-graduate student here, taking Latin, French, German and Spanish. He studied at Columbia from 1898 to 1900, taking work in Romance and Germanic languages. The first of these years he won a scholarship and the second became University Fellow in Romance Philology. He was given the M. A. degree by Delaware College in 1899. Prof. Smith went abroad the next year and continued his research in Romance Lit- eratures at L ' Universite de Paris, Le College de France, and L ' Ecole des Hautes Etudes, at Paris. Returning to America, he taught modern languages at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and was a student of old Provencal, at Colum- bia. In 1902 he was chosen instructor in German, French and Spanish at his Alma Mater, later being advanced to Professor. He became Dean of the Col- lege and the Arts and Science Department last year, and in 1916 was elected secretary to the faculty. Deail Smith is a member of the Kappa Alpha Fraternity, the Modern Language Association of America, and the Phi Kappa Phi. Fraternity. By his activity in student affairs and by his genial influence as Dean of the College, Prof. Smith has made every man at Delaware his warm friend. A man of most attractive personality, and a thorough scholar, he is the model type of a gentleman.