Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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11 .1 ts Zhc jfacult?. Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, LL. D., Ph. D., ....... President. Dr. Mendenhall commenced life in Hanoverton, Ohio, in 1841. He received a common school education and displayed a special aptitude for Physics, in which science he has become distinguished. He first began to teach in Ohio State Univer¬ sity in 1873, being Professor of Physics and Mechanics. He left this position to become Professor of Physics at the Imperial University at Tokio, Japan, but in 1881 he returned to Ohio State University. In 1884 he was Professor in the United States Signal Service, and in 1880 he accepted the Presidency of Rose Polytechnic Institute. He was Superintend¬ ent of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1889 to 1894, when he resigned to accept the Presidency of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The University of Ohio, in 1878, conferred upon him the degree of Ph. L ., and in 1887 he received his LL. D., from the University of Michigan. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Science in 1887, and is a past-president of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. George I. Alden, M. M. E., ...... Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Prof. Alden is a son of old Harvard. In 1808 he graduated from the Lawrence Scientific School, and the follow¬ ing summer was assistant to Prof. Wheelock at Harvard College Observatory. He is the oldest professor, in point of service, among the faculty, having been here ever since the opening of the Institute. He has been an active worker in the interests of the college, and has always striven to make the Department of Mechanics one of the foremost of the course. Mainly by his influence, the testing station at Chaffinville has come to be recognized as one of the best equipped and most efficient of its kind in the country. The Institute has also been brought before the public by his invention of the Alden Absorption Dynamometer. Professor Alden is a leading member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. John E. Sinclair, Ph. D., ....... Professor of Higher Mathematics. Prof. Sinclair graduated from Dartmouth College in 1858. The year after leaving college he spent in teaching at Adrian, Mich. From 1859 to 1863 he was a tutor at Washington University, St. Louis. The next six years he spent in the position of Professor of Mathematics in the Chandler Department of Dartmouth College, from which place lie came to W. P. 1. in 1868, to occupy a similar position. Prof. Sinclair received the degree of A. M. from Washington University in 1863, and from Dartmouth in 1879. His alma mater further honored him, in 1883, by bestowing upon him the degree of Ph. D. Prof. Sinclair piloted us through the snares of Analytical Geometry in our Sophomore year, in a peculiarly easy and interesting manner, that is one of the characteristic features of his teaching.