University of Oregon - Oregana Yearbook (Eugene, OR)

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Herbert Crombie Howe, assistant professor in English literature, re- ceived his A. B. at Cornell University- in 1893, and was then a graduate scholar at that institution until 1895. While giving the most of his time to earlier poetry at present, he will take charge of the whole department of English literature in 1902-1903. Edwin De Vore Ressler, assistant professor in the Department Of Edu- cation, was made A. B. at Otterbein University in 1891 and A. M. at Ohio State University in 1897. The years previous to his connection With our' University he spent as superintendent Of the schools Of Eugene. 20

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New Instructors. Charles W. M. Black graduated A. B. from Dickinson College in 1899 and A. M. in 1892. He was granted A. M. at Harvard in 1899, and then received his Ph. D. in 1901, his thesis being on iiThe Parametric Represen- tation of the Neighborhood of a Singular Point of an Analytic Sur- face? He is assistant to Prof. Lilley in the Department of Mathematics. Richard Harold Dearborn received his A. B. degree in 1895 at Portland University and his M. E. at Cornell in 1900. He is an instructor and assistant in the Department of Electrical and Mathematical Engineering, and, as such, has charge of the second Hoor in the new mechanical hall. I9

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Carl Cosmo Rice, assistant profes- sor of Romance languages and Latin, received his A. B. and A. M. degrees in the years of 1897 and 1899, re- spectively, at the University of Texas. In the year 1900-1901 he held the Townsend scholarship at- Harvard and received there also an A. M. He is now pursuing graduate work at that institution on a leave of absence for one year, holding the Shattuck Schol- arship in Romance Philology. Albert Radciin Sweetser graduated from XVesleyan University, Connecti- cut, in 1884, With the degree A. 13., following this with an A. M. in 1887. After a year at the Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology and four at Har- vard, he spent several years teaching in the East and was then called to Pa- cific University in 1897. He began his work with us at the first of the pres- ent semester, as head of the Depart- ment of Biology.