University of Wisconsin Madison - Badger Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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new members of the faculty. Aff CALEB NOTBOHM HARRISON, Ph.D. ALEB NOTBOHM HARRISON, Acting Professor of Machine Design, was born in Milwaukee in 1862. In 1879 he entered the University of Wisconsin from the University of Michigan and graduated -V in 1882 with the degree of B. C. E. Since graduation he has taught in the West Side High School, Milwaukee, and also engaged in Engineering practice for about six years. In 1898 he received the degree of Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He was appointed to his present position in 1899. Professor Harrison has published several papers on the wave lengths of different metals, these researches being carried on with Professor Rolands of johns Hopkins Un- iversity. The accuracy of their results has recently received acknowledgement from the European societies, and especially from Professor Hasselberg of Sweden, who pronounces the results even more accurate than his own. ROBERT WILLIAMS WOOD, A.B. OBERT WILLIAMS WOOD was born at Concord, Massachusetts, May 2. 1868. He entered Harvard in 1887 and graduated in 1891 with the degree of A.B. He then spent a year at Johns Hop- kins, and the following two years as Honor- ary Fellow at the University of Chicago. 1895 and 1896 were spent at Berlin University, and from there he came to the University of Wisconsin as Instructor in Physics in 1897. He was promoted to an Assistant Professor- ship in Physics in April, 1899. Professor Wood is making a special study of light, and several of his papers on this subject have been published in philosophic magazines. His method of colored photography has attracted marked attention, and he recently lectured on this subject in London, before the Society of Arts, the Royal Photographic Society, the Physical Society, the London Camera Club, and also before the Royal Society, on the photographing of sound waves. Professor Wood is a Fellow of the London Physical Society, and a member of the the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, and the Astronomical and Astrophysical Society. 29

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1894 and 1898 were spent in study at the of Rome, Florence and Paris. PAUL SAMUEL REINSCH, Ph.D. AUL SAMUEL REINSCH, Assistant Professor of Political Science, was born in Milwaukee in 1869. He at- tended Concordia College, which he left in 1886, then taught for two years, and in 1888 entered the University of Wisconsin, where he graduated in 1892 with the de- gree of B. A. He completed the law course in the university in 1894, after spending a short time in Vtfashington in the study of law. Aftera year's practice in Milwaukee he was elected instructor in the university, and was also appointed extension lecturer in History and Polit- ical Science. He was granted his degree of Ph.D. in 1898, and was promoted to the Assistant Professorship of Political Science in Il899. The summers of 1890. University of Berlin and in the libraries Professor Reinsch is author of Common Law in the American Colonies, and World Politics at the End of the Nineteenth Century, and has also written many articles for the current magazines. BALTHASAR HENRY MEYER, Ph. D. ALTHASAR HENRY MEYER was born May 28, 1866, at Mequon, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin. In 1893 he grad- Y uated from the Oshkosh Normal, having previously taught in the Public Schools of Fredonia and Port Washington. In the meantime he attended the summer school of the University of Wisconsin, graduating in 1894 with the degree of B. L. He then studied for a year in the University of Berlin: in 1895 was made honorary fellow and ex- tension lecturer in the University of Wiscon- sin. The following year he was made a fel- low, and in 1897 received his degree of Ph. D. The next year he was appointed secretary of the extension department and Instructor in Sociology, and is at present Secretary of the committee on accredited schools, and Assistant Professor in Sociology. He has published several books on railway legis- lation and administration, and has two works now in press. At present he is inves- tigating for the Committee of Fifty the social functions performed by fraternal and benevolent societies in the United States. 30