Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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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.

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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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s Alonzo S. Kimlall, Ph.D., . . . Professor of Physics. U. Waldo Cutler, S. B., Professor Kimball graduated from Amherst College with the Class of 1866. After leaving college he taught Mathematics in the Webster High School for four years, and in the Worcester Highland Military Academy for one year. In 1871 he entered Worcester Free Institute, as Tech was then called, as an instructor in Mathematics, In the following year he was promoted to the position of Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering. At the end of our Junior Year, however, he resigned the depart¬ ment of Electrical Engineering, and now devotes all his time to the improvement of the course in Physics. Professor Kimball is a trustee of Mount Holyoke Col¬ lege, where he frequently delivers lectures. As a lecturer he made himself very popular with the class. He has the faculty of making his statements well understood, and is another one who thoroughly enjoys telling a good joke. Professor of Modern Ivangu.ages. Professor Cutler is an alumnus of the W. P. L, having graduated in 1874. His first position as a teacher was at Brimfield, Mass., where he taught in the Hitch¬ cock High School. He next went to Holliston, where he introduced Drawing into the public schools. In 1877 he came to Tech as Assistant Professor of Modern Languages, and two years later, received leave of absence for a course of study in Germany. With the exception of one year, which he spent at Johns Hopkins University, he has been here ever since. Leonard P. Kinnicutt, S. D., . . . Professor of Chemistry. Dr. Kinnicutt graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1875. He went abroad and studied for two years at the University of Heidelberg, there coming in contact with such men as Bunsen and Heirmath. He studied further in Organic Chemistry at Bonn University. After his return to the United States he studied at the Johns Hopkins University, and later went to Cambridge to become private assistant to Dr, Gibbs. He was granted the degree of S. D. by Harvard in 1881. He came to the Tech in 1883 as Assistant Professor of Chemistry, and in 1885 was made Professor. The Chemists have seen a good deal of the Doctor, but to most of us he is remembered chiefly by the course of lectures he delivered us during our Freshman Year.