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

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Professor Anderson has published several scientific papers while at M. A. C. and three men — Messrs. Noyes, Bogue and Brown — have made the degree of Master of Science under his direction. Since coming to Amherst, he has co-operated with Professor Peters in reor- ganizing the work in freshman chemistry. He has also enlarged and strengthened the course in qualitative analysis so that it is now considered fully equal to that given in any college. A course in physical chemistry has been introduced by him and is required of all men majoring in chemistry. Professor Anderson is an excellent teacher and full of energy and enthusiasm for his subject. He inspires and leads rather than commands the student. He is cordial in his relations with both faculty and students; the latter regard him as their friend and advisor as well as their superior. While he is always ready to help any one to a better understanding of his subject, he has little patience with the drone. He seems to care little for formal social functions; the atmosphere of the libran ' and laboratory is evidently preferred to that of the drawing-room. Even administrative duties and committee meetings seem irksome and as so much time lost from more important work. While somewhat reserved and not inclined to take the first step in making acquaintances, the ice once broken, one finds be- neath the apparent shyness the true democratic spirit. Professor Anderson is not only a teacher but he possesses also the true spirit of research which is bound to prove decidedly helpful to the department of chem- istry and to the entire institution. His mind is ever busy with some problem requiring solution, and he communicates this spirit to his associates and students. Professor Nef of Chicago, in his letter of recommendation, said of him, He is a young man of tremendous capacity for work and is brimful of enthusiasm for research. ' ' I can, therefore, recommend him to you as a very, very unusual and exceptionally well qualified teacher and research man . Let us hope that he can be retained at M. A. C. 12

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Crnesit nberi on HE subject of this sketch was bom near K aufman, Texas. He hved on a farm until twenty years of age, attended the public schools, entered a small college — Trinity University — and received from it the degree of A. B., taking highest honors. He then entered the University of Texas, intending to specialize in biology but devoted the major part of his time to botany and chemistry. During his course at that institution he made Phi Beta Kappa, and in 1903, received the degree of B. Sc. The two following years he was a fellow in botany and chemistry and received the degree of M. Sc. During the year 1905-6 he taught chemistry and physics in the Corsicana high school. As early as 1901 he began taking courses at the University of Chicago during its summer quarter, and he continued this work until he entered the University as a graduate student and fellow in the auttmm of 1906. In the spring of 1907 he was made associate in chemistry and in 1909 received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy magna cum laude, the subject of his thesis being, The Action of Fehling ' s Solution on Galactose. While a graduate student at Chicago he pursued his studies in physical chemistry with Professors McCoy and Stieglitz, and in quantitative analysis and organic chemistry with Professors Stieglitz and Nef. In the spring of 1909 he passed the United States Civil Service examination and was offered and declined a position in the Bureau of Standards. He was also elected to membership in the Sigma Xi fraternity. After receiving his doctor ' s degree he became special research assistant to Professor Nef, the head of the department of chemistry and continued in this position until his call to M. A. C. He was offered the position of instructor in chemistry in case he decided to remain at the University. In addition to his doc- tor ' s thesis, he published, while at Chicago, two scientific papers entitled, The Relation between Configuration and Rotation of the Lactones in the Sugar and Saccharinic Acid Groups, and An Empirical Relation between the Configuration and Rotation of Sugars. In the summer of 1912, Dr. Anderson was called to M. A. C. as assistant pro- fessor of general and physical chemistry and in 1914 he was made associate pro- fessor. During his three years of residence he has received a call to an instructor- ship in organic chemistry at Harvard University, and another call to become head of the scientific division of the Margaret Morrison School of Science at the Carnegie Institute at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Only recently he was approached by the president and dean of the University of Utah with a view to securing him as head of the chemical department of that institution. 11

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ilembers! of tJje Corporation TERM EXPIRES Arthur G. Pollard of Lowell 1916 Charles A. Gleason of New Braintree 1916 Frank Gerrett of Greenfield 1917 Harold L. Frost of Arlington 1917 Charles H. Preston of Danvers 1918 Frank A. Hosmer of Amherst 1918 Davis R. Dewey of Cambridge 1919 John F. Gannon of Worcester 1919 William H. Bowker of Concord 1920 George H. Ellis of West Newton 1920 Elmer D. Howe of Marlborough . 1921 Edmund Mortimer of Grafton 1921 Nathaniel I. Bowditch of Framingham 1922 William Wheeler of Concord 1922 His Excellency Governor David I . Walsh . . President of the Corporation Kenyon L. Butterfield . President of the College David Snedden State Commissioner of Education Wilfrid Wheeler Secretary of the State Board of Agricidture 9tiittvi of tfjc Corporation His Excellency Governor David I. Walsh of Boston .... President Charles A. Gleason of New Braintree Vice-President Wilfrid Wheeler of Concord Secretary Fred C. Kenney of Amherst Treasurer Charles A. Gleason of New Braintree Auditor 13