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Alonzo S. Kimball, Ph. D., . Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering. Prof. Kimball graduated from Amherst College in 186(5. After leaving college he taught Mathematics in the Webster High School for four years, and in the Highland Military Academy of Worcester, for one year. In 1871 he entered Worcester Free Institute, as Tech was then called, as a teacher in Mathematics. In the following year he was pro¬ moted to the position of Professor in Physics and Electrical Engineering, in which position’Ninety-six has enjoyed his acquaintance. Professor Kimball also holds the honored office of Trustee of Mount Holyoke College, and he frequently delivers lectures at that institution. As a teacher and friend, Professor Kimball has endeared himself to every member of our class. George E. Gladwin, ......... Professor of Drawing. George E. Gladwin, our revered teacher of Free-Hand Drawing, received his education in Connecticut schools. Subsequent to his graduation at the State Normal School, he taught drawing for a few years in the public schools of Hart¬ ford. He went to Europe in 1850, where he remained for four years, studying in the Governmental Schools of Science and Art in London. After his return to America, he taught in the schools of Worcester, Hartford, Norwich, Providence and Springfield. Upon the opening of Tech he was tendered the chair of Professor of Drawing, which position, with the excep¬ tion of instruction in the draughting department, he has occupied ever since. M i lton P. Higgins, S. B., . . . . . . Superintendent of Washburn Shops. Superintendent Higgins claims Dartmouth as his alma mater. After his departure from there he entered the employ of C. H. Morgan, of Worcester, as a mechanical engineer and draughtsman. He left this position to accept the superintend¬ ency of the Washburn Shops, in 18(58, and he has been at the head of this department of the Institute ever since. Since being connected with Tech he has been engaged in the organization of two other Technical School Shops, one in Albemarle County, Virginia, and the other in Atlanta. He also assisted in organizing the Norton Emery Wheel Co. in 1885, since which time he has been its president. He has taken out several patents in the United States and Great Britain, some of which have proved very important elements in the financial success of the Washburn Shops. Leonard P. Kinnicutt, S. D., ........ Professor of Chemistry. Dr. Kinnicutt graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1875. He then studied in the University of Heidelberg for two years, under such distinguished chemists as Bunsen and Heimrath. He also studied organic chemistry at Bonn University. On returning to America he went, a short time, to Johns Hopkins, and then became private assistant to Dr. Gibbs, at Cambridge. In 1881 Harvard honored him by bestowing upon him the degree of S. D. In 1883 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the W. P. I., and was made full Professor in 1885. He has been abroad several times since connecting himself with the Tech, and many changes and advances in the Chemistry Department have been due to his careful investigation of the work done in European Universities and Schools. Levi L. Conant, Ph. D., ....... Associate Professor of Mathematics. Prof. Conant graduated from Dartmouth, in 1879. The next year after graduation he taught at Cottage City, and the following three, he was engaged in High School work at Mankato, Minn., and Elkhart, Inch For four years he
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