Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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PROFESSORS JOHN E. SINCLAIR, PH, D,, Professor of Higher Mathematics. ROFESSOR Sinclair was graduated from Dartmouth College 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. During the next six years he was Professor of Mathematics in the Chandler department of Dartmouth College, from which place he came to the Institute 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. Hi s alma mater further honored him in 1883 by bestow¬ ing upon him the degree Ph. D. In the class-room Professor Sinclair is noted for his stock of homely illustrations and expressions, which rarely fail to carry their point. U. WALDO CUTLER, S. B., Professor of Modern Languages. Professor Cutler is an alumnus of the Institute, being a member of the class of ’ 74 - He began teaching at Brimfield, Mass., in the Hitchcock 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 is now at the head of that department. He spent from 1878 to 1881 abroad in Germany, where he pursued a course of study. He also spent a year at Johns Hopkins University. With these exceptions he has been at the Institute ever since. 13

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additions have been made at the Institute. The mechanical laboratory building and the power laboratory, which were being built at the time of his appointment, were equipped under his direction. Practically a new faculty and corps of instructors have been selected, and they, joined to his untiring energy and tact, have raised the Institute to its present high standard. It is with sincere regret that we learn of the President’s inability to continue his splendid work. For now that our long years draw to a close, we begin to appreciate more than ever his efforts in our behalf. We know that Dr. Mendenhall has been thoroughly in sympathy with us, and has not been blind to the fact that it takes courage as well as ability to complete the courses that the Institute offers. He has our best wishes for a speedy return and complete restoration to health, and may fresh honors await him. 12

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ZELOTES W. COOMBS, A. M., Assistant Professor of Modern Languages, Elected our most popular professor. SIDNEY A. REEVE, M, E,, Professor of Steam and Hydraulic Engineering, Professor Reeve was graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale with the class of 1885. Two years later he received his M. E. degree. For the next seven years he was engaged with the Westinghouse, Church, Kerr Co. of New York as a member of their engineering corps in the erection of steam power and ice-making plants. Later he occupied a position on the editorial staff of the Progressive Age , a journal devoted to the gas industry. In 1895 he came to the Worcester Polytechnic Institute to occupy the chair of Professor of Steam and Hydraulic Engineering. HAROLD B, SMITH, M. E,, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Professor Smith, a Massachusetts man, was born in Barre in 1866. After his graduation from the Barre high school, he entered Cornell University. While in college he was a prominent member of the B 6 U Fraternity, and was elected to the honorary society of Sigma Pi. When twenty-two years old he graduated with his name on the honor list. As a post-graduate student he stayed at Cornell until 1892, when he became adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering, in charge of the department at Arkansas State University. The next year he accepted the positions of head designer and electrical engineer for the Elektron Manufacturing Company of Springfield, Mass., and the Professorship of Electrical Engineering and the direction of the School of Electrical Engineering at Perdue University, where 16