University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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 R s s 9S COLLEGIATE AND ENGINEERING £ £ ffi ffi s s sssssw DANIEL CARHART, C.E., M.C.E., Sc.D., Dean of the Collegiate and Engineering Departments. Professor of Civil Engineering. “Uncle Dan ’ If you want to have an announcement ruined, give it to the Dean to read. Calls the Courant the “Cow-rant.” When he wears his seal skin cap he looks like Dismiirk. Relieves that the hardest problem in higher mathematics is perfectly obvious at first sight. Wears a silk hat and “Prince Albert” on faculty meeting days. Our Grand Old Man. 16

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FRANCIS CLIFFORD PHILLIPS, A.M., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1878. Chair of Chemistry and Mineralogy. W'oolcy. the man who wore the path across the campus. Dr. Phillips is our oldest professor in term of service and is still one of the best. He is noted foi his scholarly absorption and his gift of story telling, lie has two hobbies, chemistry and faculty dinners. Knows his subject from “turret to foundation stone. and could give Dame Xature points on chemistry. “I mp! ump! gentlemen, ump! ump! Very interesting, very interesting, indeed! ALBERT ELLIS FROST, A.M., Sc.D., Dartmouth College, 1872. Chair of Physics. “What is home without a Mother? You must know him to get in and also to get out. Registrar to the University at large and friend to every one in particular. Anthony Comstock of the Collegiate and Engineering Departments, but very popular none the less. You can’t appreciate him fully until you have been out of college several years: then he looms up big. Runs a little “W elfare Mission of his own and shields the Coeds with his motherly wing. A gentle man and scholar of the old school, l'dess him! REID THOMAS STEWART, Ph.M., C.E., Western University of Pennsylvania, 1884. Chair of Mechanical Engineering. Inventor of the famous method of measuring tubes, and yet a very modest man. I! Ego! Ich! J’e! Knows all there is to be known about gas engines, including the student variety, and is consulting engineer to many large corporations. A stately gentleman far removed from the mad throng of ordinary mortals, but a great man when you get to know him. We can’t imagine the Whip Engineering Depart ment without Professor Stewart. 7