University of Illinois - Illio Yearbook (Urbana Champaign, IL)

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Eugene Davenport M. Agr. a Eugene Davenport, Dean of the College of Agriculture, and Professor of Animal Husbandry, was born in Woodland County, Mich., in 1856. He taught school before entering Michigan Agricultural College from which he graduated in 1878, taking the degree of B.S. He received from the same college, in 1881, the degree of M.S., and, in 1896, that of M. Agr. He resided on a farm from 1878 to 1888, then returned for postgraduate work, and was elected Professor of Agriculture in 1889, which position he held for two years. He resigned this position in order to attempt the establishing of a school of agricultnre in Brazil, South America. After one year spent abroad he returned to his farm in Michigan, which he still owns and operates. He was elected Dean of the College of Agriculture, and Professor of Animal Husbandry in 1895 and the following year he became Director of the Experiment Station. Professor Davenport is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Michigan Academy of Science. Arnold Tompkins, Ph.D. Arnold Tompkins, Professor of Pedagogy, was born near Paris, 111. After graduating from the Paris High School ht attended the Indiana State Normal School. He received the degree of A.M. from the Indiana University and that of Ph. D. from the Ohio University. He lias spent two years in Chicago University. Professor Tomkins has had a varied experience in teaching in country and city schools. From 1884 to 1890 he was dean of the Normal Department of De Pauw University; from 1890 to 1893 he was Professor of Literature and Reading in the Indiana State Normal. In 1894 he was elected to his present position. He has had a great deal of institute work to do during the last ten years. He is the author of, Philosophy of Teaching, Philosophy of School Management, ' -Science of Discourse, and Literary Interpretation. Walter Howe Jones Walter Howe Jones, Professor of Music, is absent on leave owing to ill health. 13

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Lester Paige Brecken ridge, Ph.B. x$ Lester Paige Breckenridge, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, was born at Meriden, Conn., in 1858. He attended the schools of that place, and of Westfield, Mass., graduating from the latter in 1876. His vacations were spent in the shop, usually under the direction of his father. In 1878 he entered the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale, graduating, in 1881, from the Mechanical Engineering course. From January, 1882, till the summer of 1884 he was instructor at Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Pa. He was engaged in general engineer- ing work, consisting largely of power measurements until February, 1886, when he returned to Lehigh University as Senior Instructor in Mechanical Engineering. In 1891 he went to Michigan Agricultural College at Lansing. He came to the University of Illinois in 1893. David Kinley, Ph.D., ™ David Kinley, Dean of the College of Literature and Arts, Professor of Economics, and Secretary of the Council of Administration, was born in Dundee, Scotland, in i86l,and came to this country when he was 12 years old. He prepared for college at Phillips ' Academy, Andover, Mass, and graduated from Yale in 1884. For six years he was principal of the high school of North Andover. After a year ' s work at Johns Hopkins he was elected Instructor in History and Political Economy in that institution, and Instruct or in Political Economy and Logic in the Woman ' s College at Baltimore. In 1892 he went to the University of Wisconsin as Fellow and Instructor in the School of Economics. He has written articles on the Ethical Basis of Labor Legislation, Immigration, Relation of the Church to Social Reform, Influence of the Independent Treasury on Business, and is the author of The Independent Treasury System of the United States. He is a member of the American Economic Association, the American Statistical Association, the American Academy of Political and Social Science and several others. Daniel Harmon Brush Daniel Harmon Brush, Captain of the 17th Infantry, U. S. A., and Professor of Military Science and Tactics, is absent with his command. 12

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Katherine Lucinda Sharp, Ph.M, B.LS.,KKr Katharine Lucinda Sharp, Director of Library School, Professor of Library Economy and Head Librarian, prepared for college at Elgin Academy and the Oakland (Cal.) high school. She graduated from Northwestern University and, in 1889, received the degree of Ph. M. Three years later she graduated from the New York State Library School, receiving the degree of B.L.S. Professor Sharp was instructor in Latin, French, and German, at Elgin (III.) Academy, from 1886 to 1888; instructor in Scoville Institute, Oak Park, 111., from 1889 to 1890; assistant librarian in Adams Memorial Library, Wheaton, 111., 1891; organizer of Xenia (Ohio) Library Association, 1892; organizer of the World ' s Columbian Exposition Compar- ative Library Exhibit prepared for the American Library Association by the New York State Library School, 1892 and 1893; Professor of Library Economy at Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, 1893 to 1897; Director of Library School of the University of Illinois 1897. She was Grand President of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Society from 1894 to 1896. George Theophilus Kemp, M.D., Ph.D. George Theophilus Kemp, Professor of Physiology, graduated from Johns Hopkins Univer- sity, with the degree of B.A., in 1883; and Ph. D. in 1886. In 1891 he received the degree of M.D. from Long Island Medical College at Brooklyn. He came here in 1897. George William Myers, Ph.D. George William Myers, Professor of Astronomy and Applied Mathematics, was born in Champaign, 111., in 1864. After spending two years in the Urbana High School, he entered the University of Illinois and graduated in 1888, from the literary course, as valedictorian. After graduation he was retained as instructor in Mathematics later he was appointed to his present positon. William Esty, A.B., S.B. Y William Esty, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering was born in 1868. He graduated from Amherst in 1889; and from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1892. 14