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

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WALTER FREDERICK Kki.i.v, 15. L. (Dartmouth), the new physical director, has met a much needed want at the University, and his presence has given an impetus to athletic interests which foretells a great improvement in the excellence of college sports. John Avery Lomax is the latest occupant of the peripatetic office of registrar. John C. SANER is the librarian of the law department. Pack T. Lomax is registrar of the law department. P$ edi©al department. WILLIAM SPENCER CARTER, was born in Pennsylvania. Previous to his medical study he was a close student of biology. He gradu- ated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1890, and was awarded the Medical News prize for his thesis on A Study of Heat Production and Heat Dissipation in the Normal and Febrile States. Served as resident physician in the Philadelphia Hospital, and later in the Presbyterian Hospital. The latter position he resigned to accept a position as assistant in physiology in the University of Pennsylvania. His promotions in this University were quite rapid. He served successively as assistant demonstrator in pathology , assistant professor in comparative physiology, and assistant demonstrator of physiology. His Summer vaca- tions were spent in Europe, where he pursued original researches at the University of Berne. He has contributed many valuable articles based upon original research to the science of physiology, therapeutics and pathology. Both in public and private relations Professor Carter was popular because of the kindly in- fluence he exerted, because of his high sense ot the duties of life, and because of tin.- purity and earnestness of his convictions. Surely, the medical department of the University of Texas is to be congratulated upon securing Dr. Carter as professor of physiology. Conn L. MlLBURN was born in Missouri, but received his education in Texas. He graduated from the San Antonio High School in [895. He entered the Pharmacy School of U. T. in the fall of [895 and received the degree of Ph. G. in May, [897. He practiced his profession in San Antonio but a short while when he was elected to the chair of botany and demon strator of chemistry in the medical department of U. T. His earnest and untiring application to his life-work lias won for him the hi lu-st praise. DM

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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

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• ' ' ■■ ' ■ :i:in Jambs Wharton McLaughlin was born in 1840, at Springfield, Ohio. He was educated in the public schools of Ohio, and began to read medicine in 1858. He attended a course in medicine at the Cincinnati College of Medicine. In 1861 he joined the First Kentucky Regiment of Confederate Infantry and served as Lieutanent in Company I). Later he joined Gilmore ' s Company of Scouts and afterwards served with Generals Morgan and Forrest. In 1865, he came to Texas and began a review of his medical studies. He attended a second course of lectures at the University of Louisiana, receiving th e degree of M. D. in 1867. In the same year was married to Miss Tabitha Bird. He practiced medicine in Fayettville until 1870, and since that time has practiced his profession in Austin. Dr. McLaughlin is a member and ex- president of The Texas State Medical Association, and also of The American Medical Association, and The Pan American Medical Congress, etc. In 1885 he made original reseaches in the bacteriology of Dengne Fever and read a re- port of same at The St. Louis Meeting of The American Medical Association. He is the author of a volume entitled Fermentation, Infection and Im- munitv. The book takes on special interest from the fact that his theory is entirely original and based upon modern teachings of allied sciences. Dr. McLaughlin was editor of Texas Sanitarium and Texas Medical Netcs. He severed his editorial connections when elected to the chair of Theory and Practice of Medicine in the Medical Department of U. T. 1 titsui 9 ttoaa» a