Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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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

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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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he stayed until 1896. The same year he came to the W. P. I. Since 1893 Professor Smith has been consulting electrical engineer. He is a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineering, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society for Promotion of Engineering Education, Fellow of the American Society for Advancement of Science, and other scientific societies. Though so young, Professor Smith is in the front rank of his profession. CLARENCE A. CHANDLER, S. B., Superintendent of the Washburn Shops Mr. Chandler is a graduate of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, class of ’74. After receiving his diploma he went into partnership with Henry S. Howe of Boston, and built up a flourishing business as a designing engineer. Later he accepted a position as superintendent of the Carver Cotton Gin Company of East Bridgewater. In 1896 he left to accept the position of superintendent of the Washburn Shops. He has proved an able superintendent in every respect. ARTHUR W. FRENCH, C. E., Professor of Civil Engineering. Professor French was graduated from the Thayer School of Civil Engineering, Dartmouth College, with the class of 92. After graduation he entered the employ of Tower Brothers, Holyoke, Mass. From there he went to Denver, Col., to engineer the construction of the Platte River Paper Company’s plant. Later he was made assistant engineer in bridge design for the Denver Gulf Railroad, but left this position to become Associate Professor of Civil Engineering in the Thayer School of Dartmouth. Until July, 1899, he held an interest in the Niagara Engineering Works of Niagara Falls, N. Y. While engaged in teaching at Dartmouth, he received a call two years ago to the professorship at the W. P. I. to succeed Professor White. 17