Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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jifter serving ' for ii:any years on the School Coniinittee of Worcester, is now its Chairman, and is also actively interested in the movement for indepen¬ dent industrial schools in this city. Tie has ])nl)lished several books on mathematics, and has contributed many articles to educational and scientitic journals. He is even at this present time readin.ii the galley proof of his late.st work, which is entitled, “Plane and Spherical Trigonometry,” and which he assures ns is designed for fntnre Tech freshies. l r. C’onant is a member of the American Association for the Advance¬ ment of Science, and of the American Mathematical Society—yes, and there ' s lots more to be said about “Conie,” but what thongTi he be this, that, and the other, and mncli in the world ' s work—“for a ' that, and a’ that”— he is not too great to be, in yonthfnl sympathy and interest, “on the level with an insignificant freshie or a snpercilions senior.

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Levi L. Conant, Ph.D. Professor of Mathematics For us there is a life of action, hearty and toilsome, yet there will come times for cjuiet thinhiny. And it will he ‘ood, when the lights and shadows shall Hit and chase over the dying embers of a wood fire, to be able to call back and place in the retina of the mind’s eye a figure whose proto¬ type we knew back in our Tech days as Professor Conant, or better, as ‘‘Conie.” What shame is there in confessing to it? AA ' e meant no dis¬ respect; it was but the Adam in us clamoring to give a name to every new thing. There is no personality better fitted to be indelibly manifolded, one copy to each of us, to take with us as we go forth to meet and to mix with whatever vicissitudes may fall across our several paths. Him, if we have known well, we have learned to know as typifying serenity, refine¬ ment, gentleness and restful strength. Yet in that calm and quiet demeanor there was warmth. AVho of us has not known the smile that gleamed in his eyes, who has not heard him cheer our athletes, who has not caught the stray bits of humor in his conversation? There were warmth and human¬ ness in that sereniW. «. Ih ofessor Conant owns np to Littleton, Alass., as his birthplace, where he first cooed—we are sure he never broke his neighbor’s rest—on the 3d of Alarch, 1857. lie came in due time by way of Phillips-Andover to Dart¬ mouth College, where he received his Bachelor’s degree in 1879. Later he was given the degree of Alaster of Arts by his Alma Alater, and was fur¬ ther honored bv SA racuse Tbiiversitv in 1893 with the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. From 1887 to 1890 Dr. (’onant Avas installed as l rofessor of Mathematics at the Dakota School of Alines. FolloAving this he ])nrsned post-graduate studies at Clark Lniversity, and came to the Institute in 1891. He has made Tech the scene of his labors ever since, so we are bnl one of the eighteen classes he has seen go ont and on, and he will not remem])er ns, Avho are many, as the many of us Avill remem])er him. Neither, if his ready recognition be any token. Avill he ever wholly forget. Let us not Hatter ourselves that on us alone was his energy for a year or tAvo l)estowed. He has ever been ready to respond to hvic duty, and 0

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Board of Editors—1909 Aftermath Ediior-in-chief, Jerome Willard IIowe, Joseph Fra.ncis Callahan, Charles Adams I.ewis, Harvey Cobden Irving, Kobert Thomas Pollock. 1 usiiiess Maiuiijer, IvALPH Edward Toucey, Koy AVillia.m Purpee, Kalph Edgar Perry, Frederic Pobert Ellis, Francis W illiam Koys, Kalph Edgar Spaulding.