Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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5)r. Thomas d. IDenbenball. ' HE members of the W. P. I. learned with great interest, on June 20th, 1894 that Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, LL. D., Ph. D., then Superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, had been chosen by the Trustees to become President of the Institute, and that he would assume his duties the next Fall. From 1873 to 1878 Dr. Mendenhall occupied the position of Professor of Physics and Mechanics at the Ohio State University. He subsequently held the same position at the Imperial University at Tokio, Japan. In 1884 he was appointed Professor in the U. S. Signal Service, and in 1886 became President of Rose Polytechnic Institute. In 1887 he was chosen an active member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was also one of the United States delegates to the Electrical Congress, held at Chicago in 1893. He has already introduced many innovations which have proved most popular. Among these might be noted the lectures on alternate Mondays, by well-known men, and his own course of lectures to the Senior Class.

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®tbcr linstnictors. ROBERT C. SWEETSER, S. B., Instniotor in Inorganic Chemistry. JOSEPH O. PHELON, S. B., Instrnc or in Physics and Electrical Engineering. ALTON L. SMITH, S. B., Instf ' uctor in Mechanical Drawing. ZELOTES W. COOMBS, A. B., Instructor in Modern Languages. JOSEPH BEALS, S. B., Instructor in Mathematics. ARTHUR L. RICE, S. B., Instructor in Mechanical Engineering. GEORGE B. VIEES, A. B., Instructor in Modern Languages. DANIEL E. O’REGAN, S. B., Instructor in Chemistry. EDWARD L. SMITH, S. B., Assistant in Chemistry. CLARENCE W. EASTMAN, S. B., Instructor iji Modern Languages. ARTHUR D. BUTTEREIELD, S. B., Assistant in Civil Engineering. CHARLES M. ALLEN, S. B., Assistant in Mechanical Engineering. EDWARD L. BURDICK, S. B., . Assistant in Mechanical Engineering.

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