Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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17 ' Harold B. Smith, M. E., . Professor of Electrical Engineering. Professor Smith received his degree of M. E. from Cornell University in 1891, remaining as a graduate student, until called, in 1892, to the Professorship of Electrical Engineering at the Arkansas State University. Was later head designer and electrical engineer for the Elektron Manufacturing Co., Springfield, Mass., and still remains with that firm in the capacity of consulting engineer. Professor Smith occupied the position of Director of School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue Uni¬ versity, Lafayette. Indiana, from 1893 to 1S96, at the expiration of which time he was given the chair of Professor of Electrical Engineering at the W. P. I. Professor Smith is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and the American As¬ sociation for the Advancement of Sciences. William L. Ames, S. B., Professor of Drawing and Machine Design. Born in Kingston, Mass., with the Mason Locomotive Works, Taunton, Mass., for three years; with Old Colony Rivet Works for three years; S. B., Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1882; student at Cincinnati School of Design, Cincinnati, Ohio, for one year; called, in 1883, to the Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute, Indiana, as teacher of Drawing. To this department was added the work in Stereotomy and Descriptive Geometry, and later, Machine Design. He is the author of the “ Notes on Descriptive Geometry” at present used in the W. P. I. He was called, in 1896, to the Professor¬ ship of Drawing and Machine Design at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Professor Ames is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. James J. Guest, A. B., . Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Educated at Handsworth Grammar School, near Birmingham, England, and at Marlborough College, graduated in 1888 at Cambridge University, being fifth Wrangler and a scholar of Trinity College. Afterwards studied Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory and taught Mathematics. Took the course in the Engineering Laboratories, Cambridge, being finallj ' assistant. While at Cambridge studied under, among others, Dr. Routh, Sir G. Stokes, Professors J. J. Thomson and Ewing. En¬ tered the works of Messrs. Tangyes as a draughtsman; left, in 1895. for the post of Assistant Pro¬ fessor of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University, Canada. He came to Tech in the fall of 1896. Assistant Professor of Physics. Professor Beals is a graduate of the W. P I., Class of ’85, M. E. course. He spent a year partly with the Dean Steam Pump Co. of Holyoke, Mass., and the remainder with Washburn Moen M’f’g Co. of this city. The next two and a half years were spent in business in Westfield, Mass., and in Stanstead, Province of Quebec. In the spring of 1889 he organized the Manual Training Department of the Fall River High School, and remained in charge of it for two years. In the fall of 1891 he returned to Worcester, accepting the position of Instructor in Mathemathics at the Institute. In June, ’95, he became Instructor in Physics and Elementary Mechanics, and in ’97 was made Assistant Professor of Physics. Prof. Geo. E. Gladwin. Prof. Gladwin graduated from the State Normal School of Connecticut in 1854, and spent the next six years teaching. During a part of the time he was teacher of Drawing in the public sc hools of Hartford, Conn. In 1859 he went abroad, and took a four year’s course of study at the Govern¬ ment School of Art, South Kensington, London, Eng., from which he graduated with first honors in a class of above a hundred students. When the W. P. I. opened in 1868 he was called to the position of Professor of Free Hand Drawing, which position he held for twenty-eight years. Since leaving the Institute he has had a private studio in the city. We were the last class to have Professor Glad¬ win, and only the pleasantest of memories remain with us of his cheerfulness and readiness to help in the class room.

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