University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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Health and Hope. The air is thick with blinding snow, And wild the wintry weather, -- liut what care l l or lowering sky With health and hope together. Though north winds blow the drifting snow Glad hearts make gladsoinc weather, A happy pair, .X well-matched pair, Are health and hope together. There's joy so high in the whitened sky, As the snow-flakes dance together, How they whirl and fly And Hit swiftly by, Like youth and hope together. Through frosty years with slivery snows, Our heads will soon be hidingg Time cannot chill The hearts that still Keep youth and hope abiding. R. U

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the work may be gained from the fact that it is the acknowledged authority on the subject both in America and England, and that it has recently been trans- lated into German. He has also published Elements of Physics, QCarhart and Chutej 1893, University Physics, Part I, 1894, and has now in press a work on Electrical Measurements which will appear during the present year. The new edition of Johnsons Encyclopedia will contain articles from Professor Carhart on Electric Lamps, Electric Potential, Thermal Electricity, Units, and WVattmeters. As a writer he has the happy faculty of stating scientific facts clearly, brieliy and accurately. His books are concise and teachable. Professor Carhart has been repeatedly honored hy learned bodies both at hon1e and abroad. In ISQZ, while in attendance at the meeting of the British Association in Edinburgh, he was invited, together with von Helmholtz and Guillaume, to sit as visiting member with the famous connnittee on units. In june, ISQ3, he received the honorary degree of LL. D. from his Alma Mater, Wesleyan University. He was one of the five official delegates repre- senting the United States, appointed by Secretary Gresham to the Interna- tional Electrical Congress held at Chicago in 1893. From this body of international delegates, a committee of three, consisting of Professor von Helmholtz of iBerlin, Professor Ayrton of London, and Professor Carhart, was appointed to prepare specifications for the Standard Clark Cell, their report to be adopted as the legal usage in the scientific and commercial world. He was chosen President of the Committee of judges for the Department of Electricity at the World's Columbian Exposition, a position of peculiar importance and responsibility, and to the performance of the delicate and arduous duties appertaining thereto he showed himself remarkably well adapted. He delivered the principal address at the opening of the new scien- tific building in the University of Colorado on the seventh of March, 1895. As a teacher in his favorite science Professor Carhart is characterized by clearness, accuracy and intense earnestness of purpose. As a lecturer and experimenter he has few equals. His experiments succeed g-a statement best appreciated, perhaps, by those who know how easy it is to arrange experiments that shall fail. In every experiment there are, besides the underlying princi- ple, the nameless minutiae whose thorough comprehension is vital to success. His experiments succeed because he does not rest until these minute details are not only known, but under control, and success, like genius, comes at last to mean, an immense capacity for taking pains, JOHN O. REED,

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PR OFESSOR FRED MANVILLE TAYLOR, PH. D