University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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c v p)pofe§§cp§ and Insfauetops. There have been a number of additions to the Faculty of the University in the year 1S97-98. PROF. MARK HARVEY UDDELL was elected in June, 1S97. to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Dr. Waggener. Prof. Lid- dell is an A.B., A.M. of Princeton, and held a fellowship in English •during his last year at that institution. After leaving Princeton, he taught two years at Lawrenceville, N. J., and two years in Philadelphia. He then went to Europe, and studied English two years in Oxford and one year in Berlin. Since returning to America he has lived in Boston, and has been •engaged in editing old English texts for the McMillan Company. Asso- ciated with other distinguished scholars in England and America, he has just published an edition of the Globi Chaucer. Prof. Liddell is an enthusi- astic follower of the Oxford plan of studying the English language. Prof. W. S. SUTTON, A. M. (University of Arkansas), has been placed at the head of the re-established School of Pedagogy. Prof. Sutton has been superintendent of the Houston schools for the past ten years. So successful has been his administration that, according to a report issued by Dr. Y. T. Harris, United States Commissioner of Education, the Houston school system is ranked as the seventh most efficient in the United StaUs. 1 ' rof. Sutton ' s success as a practical schoolman is largely due to the fact that lie has always been a close student of the best theories of education. It is this combination of much practical sense with a modicum of theory that makes his work in the schoolroom particularly effective and successful. Prof. Sutton ' s election anil retention as a member of the Faculty of the University of Texas will prove an important factor in enlisting the sympathy and eo operation of the public schools of the State with the University. .1

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t GoERGE P. HALL, M. D., Lecturer on Diseases of the Ear, Eye, Nose and Throat. M. D., University of Louisville, 1877. Isaac M. Cline, A. M., M. D., Ph. D., Lecturer on Climatology. A. M., Hiawatha College (Tenn.), 1SS2 ; M. D., Arkansas University, 1885; Ph. D., Add Ran University, 1 96. RaouL Rene DANIEL Cline, A. M., Ph. G., Lecturer on Pharmacy; Pro- fessor of Pharmacy and Lecturer on Botany in the School of Pharmacy . A. M., Pennsylvania College, 1S96 ; Ph. G., New York College of Pharmac}-. Thomas Flavin, M. D., Demonstrator of Anatomy . M. D., University of Texas, 1892. JOHN Thomas MOORE, A. M., M. D., Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy. A. M., Add Ran University, 1894 ; M. D., University of Texas, 1896. William Gammon, M. D., Demonstrator of Normal Histology . M. D., University of Texas, 1S93. L,oriS Kdmond MAGNENAX, M. D., Demonstrator of Chemistry. M. D., University of Texas, 1S95. V. F. Stori.Ev, Jr., M. D., Demonstrator of Obstetrics. R. L. McMAHON, M. D., Assistant Surgeon. Conn L. Milburn, Ph. G., Demonstrator of Chemistry and Botany. Ph. G., Medical Department, University of Texas, 1897. JAMES Pope Johnson, Provost of Medical Department, Secretary of the Fac- ulty, and Librarian, at Galveston.

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As an associate of Prof. Sutton, the Regents have elected Dr. A. Cas- wei.i. Ellis, Ph. I)., (Clark University, Boston). Dr. Ellis is a specialist in psychology and child study. He is a young man, well posted in his subject, and a captivating k-eturer. Robert A. Thompson, M. A. (University of Texas), has been added to the Department of Engineering. Prof. Thompson has already had one year of service in the University of Texas as a teacher of engineering dur- ing the absence of Prof. Taylor in the year 1893-94. Since that time he has been engaged in the active field of railroad building, and resigned his work there only because he loved teaching and the ' Varsity more. William I,. Bray, M. A. (Indiana University), is now professor in charge ot the work in botany in the University of Texas. Prof. Bray has done work at Cornell University, the University of Indiana, Chicago Uni- versity and the University of Berlin. He will enter the examination for his doctorate in June next at the University of Chicago. The unworked field of Texas in botany offers Prof. Bray an excellent opportunity for achievement in his line. James Robinson Bailey, A. B. (University of Texas), Ph. D., ' 97 (University of Munich), comes back to his Alma Mater as instructor in Chemistry. He is a specialist in organic chemistry, and secured his doctor ' s degree upon brilliant original work done under Dr. Adolf von Beyer, reputed to be the master of organic research. Milton Brocket Porter, A. B. (University of Texas), Ph. D. (Har- vard University), received his appointment as instructor in mathematics in the University of Texas and donned his gown for his doctor ' s degree at about the same time. Dr. Porter ' s work at Harvard was of such high order as to win from his professors letters of recommendation and endorsement so flattering that we refrain from publishing them, wishing to spare his modesty. Dr. Porter ' s papers in mathematics are sought for publication by the leading mathematical journals of the country. William Tyler Mather, Ph. D., ' 97 (Johns Hopkins University), succeeded Prof. Northrup (who resigned in November, 1897) in the chair of physics. Dr. Mather was for one year a university scholar at Johns Hop- kins. During the last year of his connection with that institution, he held a fellowship in physics. He was then elected instructor in physics in the same institution, but resigned this place to assume his duties as professor of physics in the University of Texas, which place was tendered him by the Regents in December, 1897. Prof. Mather is enthusiastic in his praises of Texas and the opportunity for research work in his department of this University. He finds his school much better equipped than he expected, and promises soon to have the best appointed workshop in the South. Benjamin Wyche, B. L. (University of North Carolina), is the new librarian. He is quiet, modest and unassuming; thoroughly acquainted with the science of keeping in order an up-to-date library. At the same time he holds firm convictions that the greatest need of the University of Texas is for more books, and in this conviction there are many friends of the University who heartily concur. ' 9