University of Massachusetts Amherst - Index Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE II inherited qualities, fostered and improved by a healthy environment and a right course of living, that have developed the man whose life and work among us for so many years has endeared him to all who have come in contact with him, as students, associates on the faculty, or in other lines of college activities. Philip Bevier Hasbrouck was born in Libertyville, Ulster County, New York, m 1870. He prepared for college at the New Paltz Normal School, and was admitted to Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J., in the fall of 1889. Early in his college course he developed a fondness for mathematical work, in which he specialized later, taking courses in mathematics, physics and civil engineering. At the completion of his college course he received the degree of B. Sc. Soon after graduating from Rutgers he accepted a position as secretary to the Director of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, a position he retained until 1895, when he accepted a call to M. A. C, as Assistant Professor of Mathematics. In recognition of his services and abihty as a teacher, he has been promoted to Associate Professor of Mathematics and Adjunct Professor of Physics. In June, 1905, he assumed the duties of Registrar, succeeding his classmate and colleague. Professor Lull. By reason of the work that has fallen to his lot in his capacity as teacher, registrar, and a member of the faculty committee on entrance, he has secured a more intimate acquaintance with the undergraduates than any of his associates on the faculty. His relation to the students during their first years at M. A. C, and his personal interest in every one of them, has resulted in his being selected by many men in college as an adviser regarding their college and personal affairs. In the capacity of personal adviser, confi- dant and teacher he has had frequent opportunity to impress upon those with whom he has thus come in contact, the marks of his character that make for the growth of the true college man and the development of a genuine college spirit. This intercourse between teacher and student has served to magnify in him those innate qualities of consideration, generosity, frankness and loyalty. By every one who has been associated with him either as student or colleague, he is held in high esteem as an earnest student, faithful teacher and friend. l,. . ,95