Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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Corporatioi ' i HON. STEPHEN SALISBURY, A. M., President. REV. DANIEL MERRIMAN, D. D., Secretary. CHARLES G. WASHBURN, S. B., A. B., Treasurer HON. GEORGE F. HOAR, LL. D. CHARLES H. MORGAN, Esq. G. HENRY WHITCOMB, A. M. REV. AUSTIN S. GARVER, A. M. REV. SPENSER B. MEESER. ELMER P. HOWE, S. B., A. B. JAMES LOGAN, Esq. ON THE PART OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, FRANK P. GOULDING, Esq. EX-OFFICIO, HIS HONOR, MAYOR RUFUS B. DODGE, Jr.

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THOMAS C. MCNDIiNHALL, Ph. D., LL. D., President. Dr. Mendenhall was born in Hanoverton, Ohio, in 1841. He early began to devote his attention to the physical sciences, and in 1873 was elected to the chair of Physics and Mechanics in the Ohio State University, from which he resigned in 1878 to accept a similar position in the Imperial University at Tokio, Japan. Dr. Mendenhall remained in Japan nntil 1881, when he returned to the Ohio State University. Three years later he entered the Government service as Professor of Electricity in the United States Signal Service, and in 1886 he accepted the presidency of the Rose Polytechnic Institute. He was made Superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1889, and resigned in 1894 to become President of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. During his sojourn with us Dr. Mendenhall has raised the standard of the Institute so that it compares favorably with that set by any scientific school in the country. He has made many valuable researches in Physics, and has twice been awarded honorary degrees, receiving his Ph. D. from the Ohio State University and his UU. D. from the University of Michigan. JOHN C. SINCLAIR, Ph. D., Professor of Higher Mafheincitlcs. Dr. Sinclair is the senior member of the facult} , having come to the W. P. I. in 1868. He received his college training at Dartmouth, from which he was graduated in 1858. After his graduation he taught in Adrian, Michigan, and in the Washington University of St. Louis, and from the latter institution received the degree of A. M., in 1863. From ’63, until coming to the Tech in ’68, Dr. Sinclair was Professor of Mathematics in the Chandler Department of Dartmouth College. Up to 1884 he was Professor of Higher Mathematics and Civil Engineering at the W. P. I., at which time the faculty was enlarged. Professor Sinclair taking the chair of Higher Mathe¬ matics and Professor George H. White that of Civil Engineering. In 1879 received the degree of A. M. and in 1883 that of Ph. D. from Dartmouth. U. WALDO CUTLIzD, 5. { Professor of noderii Languages. Professor Cutler is one of the few members of the faculty who are Tech graduates, being a member of the class of 1874. He taught school at Brimfield, Mass., and then went to Holliston, where he introduced drawing into the public schools. He came to Tech in 1877 as Assistant Professor of Languages. In 1879 went to Germany for two years and took a course of study. On his return he came back to W. P. I., and in 1892 was made Senior Professor of Languages. With the exception of one year spent at Johns Hopkins University, he has been at Tech ever since. Professor Cutler has, undoubtedly, the hardest subject to teach to men taking scientific courses, but he certainly has succeeded, and our associations with him have been very pleasant. 10