Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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6 THE ANTENNA. iOARD of Trustees. Hon. STEPHEN SALISBURY, President Hon. D. WALDO LINCOLN, Secretary, DAVID WHITCOMB, Esq., Treasurer, ' Rev. SETH SWEETSER, D. D., Hon. GEORGE F. HOAR, CHARLES H. MORGAN, Esq., PHILIP L. MOEN, Esq., Rev. EDWARD H. HALL, IIon. LUCIUS J. KNOWLES, Rev. B. D. MARSHALL, D. D. On the Part of the Board of Education : Hon. WILLIAM W. RICE. Ex Officio : IIis Honor, Mayor CLARK JILLSON.

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THE ANTENNA. 5 the present classes. By the time the Antenna meets the e} T e of the public, ’75 will be on the eve of its departure. Their theses finished, they now enter upon their last examination. This safety passed, they outnumber their predecessors. Though the} T did not have the success of ’74 in their winter entertain¬ ment speculation, they seem to be vigorously preparing for the coming closing exercises. ’76 reduced to less than half its original numbers, still has the prospect of being the largest class yet. For them this year has been a busy one. No distinction between Saturday and the rest of the week. Practical researches in Chemistry, and marvelous strides in Physics. Fifteen evening lectures in Geol¬ ogy, in common with the Seniors, in the first two months of the last half. Mathematics in great amount and variety. French Translation and English Composition. The Engineers, that is to say, the great majority of the class, having finished Henck, are engaged in lively practice under their new instructor. The examination, which may reduce ’76 to a minimum, is close at hand. Then a month of practice, a month of rest, and they are Seniors. ’77, those athletic mechanics, will step into their places, doubting some if they will be obliged to work harder than here¬ tofore, for up to this time they have been by no means idle, having been harder pressed in some respects than previous classes. The Apprentice Class are in a measure strangers, the step from “prep” to student being something of a stride. There is, comparatively, no “feeling” between the students of different classes, and no surprising instance of manifested con¬ tempt for “preps” is on record. The present Apprentice Class appears to be, on the whole, a steady set of fellows. Next year many of them will assume the dignity of students, and some of them will condescend to notice those fellows who happen to pass the next February examination. In the meantime, this pamphlet, the first effort of the kind by students of our Institution, we commit to the perusal of such as may see it, conscious of having wasted but little time which should have been devoted to its preparation during the two months since its conception. Hoping that it may be followed by similar productions, with great improvements, we now turn the leaf.

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THE ANTENNA. 7 l|oARD OF Instructors. r CHARLES 0. THOMPSON, A.M., Principal, and Professor of Chemistry. GEORGE I. ALDEN, B.S., Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. GEORGE E. GLADWIN, Professor of Drawing. JOHN E. SINCLAIR, A. M., Professor of Mathematics and Civil Engineering. ALONZO S. KIMBALL, A. M., Professor of Physics. EDWARD P. SMITH, A. M., Professor of Modern Languages. THOMAS E. N. EATON, A. M., Junior Professor of Mathematics. MILTON P. HIGGINS, B.S., Superintendent of Machine Shop. GEORGE II. WHITE, Instructor in Field Work and .Topography. T. STERRY HUNT, LL. D., Lecturer in Geology.