Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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waLTCR L. JENNINGS, Pl . D., Assistant Protessor of CEemistru. Dr. Jennings graduated from Harvard, having received his A. B. in 1889. He spent three years in graduate work, also at Harvard, and received the degree of Ph. D. After studying abroad for two years, in Berlin and Heidelberg, he came to Tech as a member of the faculty. The Doctor is a crack tennis player and is interested in sports in general. As a professor the Electrics met him during our Junior year in Qualitative Analysis; in Metallurgy his series of lectures was listened to by the whole class, his genial manner making him a general favorite. He has made a special study of Organic Chemistry, devoting much time to the analysis of sugars, a subject which ought to be an exceedingly pleasant one to consider. ZELOTES W. COOMBS, A. M., Assistant Professor of Modem Languages. Professor Coombs graduated from Amherst College in 1888. For one year after graduation he taught at Brooklyn Tech, leaving to enter the University of Virginia, both as instructor and student. In 1890 he came to the Worcester Polytechnic Institute as Instructor in Modern Languages. In 1894 he went abroad and studied a year at the University of Berlin. On his return he was made Assistant Professor of Modern Languages, which position he now holds. Professor Coombs is Chairman of the W. P. I. Athletic Association and takes a lively interest in athletics. He is also one of the representatives of the faculty on the board of editors of the “Journal of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute.” SIDNEY A. REEVE, M. E., Adjunct Professor ot Steam and Hydraulic Engineering. Professor Reeve is an alumnus of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. He was graduated in 1887, and two years later received the M. E. degree. For a time he was a member of the Engineering Corps of the Westinghouse, Church, Kerr Co., of New York. Before his call to Tech, in 1895, he held a position on the editorial staff of the Progressive Age, a journal devoted to the gas industry. HAROLD 15. SMITH, M. E., Professor of Electrical Engineering. Professor Smith graduated from Sibley College, Cornell University, in 1891, and after a year of post-graduate work he accepted the chair of Electrical Engineering in the Arkansas State University. He then spent a year in Electrical Engineering and Designing and afterwards accepted the position of Director of the School of Electrical 14

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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

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Engineering at Purdue University, where he remained until 1896. In 1896 he accepted the chair of Electrical Engineering in the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Professor Smith has made his department one of the best of its kind in the ' United States. He is consulting engineer for several electrical concerns and is a member of many scientific societies. CLARCNCC K CHANDLCR, S. B., Siipcrinleiwlenr Of the Washlxirn Shops. Mr. Chandler was a classmate of Professor Cutler’s here at the W. P. I. in 1874, and after graduating went into partnership with Henry S. Howe, then located in Boston, and built up a prosperor,s business as a designing engineer. Later he accepted a position as Superintendent of the Carver Cotton Gin Co., of East Bridgewater, and left to come to Tech in 1896. Since coming to Tech Mr. Chandler has introduced many new methods for raising the standard of the work which is required of the students in the shops. A foundry with entire equipment is a feature which has lately been added. Mr. Chandler has proved a very able superintendent. ARTHLII W. rPENCH, C C., Profcssor Of Civil CiigiiAceriag. Professor French graduated from the Thayer School of Civil Engineering, Dart¬ mouth College, in the class of ’92. For a short time after graduation he was employed by To wer Bros., of Holyoke, Mass. From Holyoke he went to Denver, Colorado, as engineer in charge of the construction of the plant of the Platte River Paper Co. Later he was assistant engineer in bridge design for the Denver and Gulf Railroad, but left this position to become Associate Professor of Civil Engineering in the Thayer School of Dartmouth. Until July, 1899, he was a joint proprietor of the Niagara Engineering Works, of Niagara Falls, New York. He was teaching at Dartmouth when called to the Professorship at W. P. I. A. VX ' ILMCR DLirr, n. A., B. Sc, Professor of Physics. t Professor Duff is one of the four new professors who were called to the W. P. I. in the fall of last year, coming to us from Purdue University, where he had been Professor of Physics for six years. Professor Duff received his college training at the Univer¬ sity of New Brunswick, from which he was graduated in 1884. The next four years he spent in study at the University of Edinburgh, receiving in 1888 the degree of M. A., and the following year studied in the University of Berlin. In 1889 Professor Duff was called to be substitute Professor of Physics in the University of Madras, leaving in ’90 to accept a similar position in the University of New Brunswick. After staying in New Brunswick for three years Professor Duff went to Purdue University as Professor of Physics, a position which he held until called to the W. P. I. 15