Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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Corporation. HON. STEPHEN SALISBURY, A. M., President. REA DANIEL MERRIMAN, D. D., Secretary. CHARLES Cj. WASHBURN, S. B., A. B., Treasurer HON. georch: f. hoar, LL. D. CHARLES H. MORGAN, ESQ. WALDO LINCOLN, A. B. (L HENRY WHITCOMB, A. M. REV. AUSTIN S. GARVER, A. M. REV. SPENSER B. MEESER, Ph. B. ELMER P. HOWE, S. B., A. B. ON THE PART OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, FRANK P. (lOULDING, ESQ. EX-OFFIClO, HIS HONOR, MAYOR A. B. R. SPRACIUE.

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HE AFTERMATH, as published by the graduating class of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, for the past few years, has become so firmly established as a classical department of literature, that we believe it needs no explanation or apology for its existence. We have tried to combine in this, the Aftermath of ’1)7, the elements of College Annual, and of Class Book. Naturally, it is expected and, indeed, intended that this volume should be of chief interest to the Class of d)7 ; but it is also hoped that those so unfortunate as not to be members of this class, may have their lives made less dreary by finding here something to amuse or interest them. We have striven to avoid any so-called humor, which in any way approache s the comic valentine variety. If any “grind” contained within the covers of this book, seems to hit a little too hard, we trust that it will be taken, as it was intended,—merely as a good-natured “jolly,” without malice or thought of offense.

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ifacult . Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, Ph.D., LL.I)., . . President. President Mendenhall was born in Ohio in 1841. At an early age he became a teacher, and on the opening of the Ohio State University in 1873, he was elected to the chair of Physics and Mechanics. In 1878 he went to Japan as Professor of Physics, in the Imperial Univer¬ sity, where one of his distinguished colleagues was Professor J. A. Ewing. In 1887 he returned to the Ohio State University, where he received his degree of Ph.D. Three years later he entered the Government Service as Professor of Electricity in the Signal Service. In 1886 he resigned to accept the presidency of the Rose Poly¬ technic Institute, at Terre Haute, Indiana. After serv¬ ing in this capacity for three years, he was appointed as Superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. In 1894, Dr. Mendeneall left this position to assume the Presidency of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Professor of Higher Mathematics. Professor Sinclair graduated from Dartmouth Col¬ lege in 1858. The following year he spent in teaching at Adrian, Mich., and from 1859 to 1863 he was a tutor at Washington University, St. Louis. The next six years he was Professor of Mathematics in the Chandler Department of Dartmouth College, from which place he came to the W. P. I., in 1868, to occupy a similar position. Professor 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, Ph.D. He made himself popular with the class by his peculiarly interesting method of teaching Analytical Geometry and Calculus. His stock of jokes and stories was unlimited, and well served to keep the most friendly relations between the Professor and the class. It is safe to say that he is one of the best liked Professors on the Faculty.