Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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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.

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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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9 George H. kite, S. B., . . Professor of Civil Engineering. Professor White is one of the four members of the Faculty who graduated from Worcester Tech. He engaged in civil engineering work, in 1869, for Mr. W. P. Granger, then of Worcester, who subsequently was appointed chief engineer of the Hoosac Tunnel. Later, Professor White went with him to New York State, where he was engaged on the Adirondack Railroad. He then returned to Worces¬ ter, and entered Tech in advanced standing with the Class of ’73. He left in 1872, however, and engaged in engineering work in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Minnesota. Returning to Tech, in 1875, he took up the Senior studies with ’76, being at the same time tutor in field practice. He graduated in 1876, and then returned to Minnesota, where he engaged in railroad work until 1884, when he was appointed Professor of Civil Engineering at the W. P. I. Professor White is a very thorough instructor. Levi L. Conant, Ph.D., . . Associate Professor of Mathematics. Professor Conant graduated from Dartmouth with the Class of ’79. The following year he taught at Cottage City. The next three years he spent in High School work at Mankato, Minn., and Elkhart, Ind. For four years he was Superintendent of Schools in Deadwood and Rapid City, S. D., and for three years was Professor of Mathematics in the State School of Mines in South Dakota. He then came East, and took post-graduate work at Clark University during 1890 and 1891. Professor Conant received the degree of A. M. from Dartmouth, in 1887, and the degree of Ph.D. from Syracuse University, in 1892. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the New York Mathematical Society. Pro¬ fessor Conant has always taken an active interest in athletics, and during training or contest, he is sure to be seen, giving advice, or shouting encouragement to the athletes. George H. Hayne.s, Ph.D., Professor of History and Economics. Dr. Haynes is another Amherst alumnus, receiving his diploma with the Class of 1887. From Amherst he came to Tech, and taught here from 1887 to 1890. He then took a course at Johns Hopkins, where he received his degree of Ph.D., in 1893. Returning, he was tendered the chair of History and Economics, in which capacity we had the pleasure of knowing him. Dr. Haynes has contrib¬ uted many valuable articles to the scientific journals on topics in American history and politics. We did not espec¬ ially admire studying “ Bryce,” but aside from that, enjoyed our course with him.