Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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Prof. Kinsrsbury Mr. Ashworth Mr. Allen Prof. Kinincutt Mr. Harris Dr. Mendenhall Prof. Sinclair Prof. Reeve Prof. Coombs Prof. Chandler Prof. Smith Mr. hairfield Prof. Jones Prof. French Prof. Beals Mr. Sweetser II

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LCOMAPD P. KINNICUTT, 5. D., Professor of Cheinisfrg. Dr. Kinnicutt graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the class of ’75. He then took a course of study abroad, spending one year at Heidel¬ berg, and a year and a half at the University of Bonn. Upon his return he studied at Johns Hopkins. In 1880 he was made Instructor of Qualitative Analysis at Harvard. He held this position for two years and during that time he received his S. D. from Harvard. He came to W. P. I. in 1883 as Assistant Professor of Chem¬ istry, and in 1885 became Professor of Chemistry. Dr. Kinnicutt has made a special study of the problems connected with the disposal of sewage, having visited for this purpose the plants of many of the larger cities in England and the Continent. LCVl L. CONSNT, Ph. D., Professor of riafhemafics. Professor Conant was born in Littleton, Mass., in 1857. He fitted ior college at Andover, and graduated from Dartmouth in 1879. Since his graduation he has devoted his time entirely to educational pursuits. In 1880 he taught at Cottage City and for the next three years was principal of the High School in Mankato, Minn. From 1883 to 1885 he taught at Elkhart, Indiana, and later was Superintend¬ ent of Schools in Deadwood and afterwards in Rapid City, South Dakota. From 1887 to 1890 he was Professor of Mathematics in the Dakota State School of Mines. During the year 1890-1891 he took advanced work in Mathematics at Clark University and in 1891 accepted the position of Associate Professor of Mathematics at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. A deserved tribute to Professor Conant’s popularity lies in the fact that several times he has been elected the most popular professor by the graduating class. He received his Ph. D. from Syracuse University in 1892. OEOPOC H. HAYNES, Ph. D., Professor of History and Econoinics. Dr. Haynes is an Amherst alumnus, having received his degree with the class of ’87. After leaving Amherst he came to the Tech, where he taught for three years in the Department of Modern Languages, leaving in 1890 to enter Johns Hopkins University as a graduate student in History and Economics. In ’93 he received the degree of Ph. D. and returned to the W. P. I. to succeed Dr. MacDonald, now of Bowdoin College, as Professor of History and Economics. Dr. Haynes has frequently contributed to the various historical and economic magazines, and a series of articles from his pen is now appearing in the “Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.” Dr. Haynes’s courses have been among the pleasantest taken during our stay in the Institute. His thorough knowledge of his subjects, his ready wit and kind and sympathetic bearing have won him so many friends in the class of 1900 that he was unanimously chosen our most popular professor. 13