Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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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

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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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A WILMER DUFF, M. A., B. Sc., Professor of Physics. Professor Duff was graduated from the University of New Brunswick in 1884. After graduation he went abroad, where he spent the next four years in study at the University of Edinburgh, receiving his degree of M. A. in 1888. The following year he studied in the University of Berlin. In 1889 Professor Duff accepted a position as substitute Professor of Physics in the University of Madras, which he left in 1890 to take up a similar place in the University of New Brunswick. Three years later he went to Perdue University to become Professor of Physics. He remained there six years, until called to the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1899. Great credit is due to Professor Duff for the manner in which he has improved the physics department. He takes a real interest in his work, and has made the junior laboratory course especially instructive and efficient. ALBERT KINGSBURY, M. E., Professor of Applied Mechanics. Professor Kingsbury graduated in 1889 from Sibley College, Cornell University. Prior to this, he was for one year a student at Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio, and for two years attended the Ohio State University at Columbus. He was thus able to enter Cornell in 1887 in advanced standing. After graduation he was appointed Instructor in Mechanical Engineering and Physics in the New Hampshire State College. At the close of the school year he was raised to the full professorship, but resigned to become superintendent of the machine-shop of the H. B. Camp Co., Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. In 1891 he was re-appointed Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the New Hampshire State College, where he remained until his call to Tech two years ago. Professor Kingsbury is a member of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an associate member of the American Society of Naval Engineers. 18