Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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George H. H aynes, Ph.D., Professor of History cvid Eco?io nics, Doctor Haynes formed an early acquaintance with the Institute, joining its teacliing staff directly upon graduating from Amherst College in 1887. In 1890 he left Tech to pursue a course of study at Johns Hopkins University, from which institution he received the degree of Ph.D. in 1893. He returned to the Institute as Pro¬ fessor of History and Economics. The scope of Dr. Haynes’ work embraces a larger held than his course of instruction at the AVorcester Poly¬ technic Institute, helpful and inter¬ esting as he makes those to the undergraduate. He is a member of the American Historical Association, the American Political Science Asso¬ ciation, and the American Antiqua¬ rian Society. His publications in¬ clude two books, as well as many c on¬ tributions to journals devoted to his- torv and government. Walter L. Jennings, Ph.D., Professor of Of ' ganic Chemistry. Doctor Jennings received his A.B. degree from the University of Harvard in 1889. After three years of advanced work at the same univer¬ sity, he received the degree of Ph.D. The following two years were spent in study at Berlin and Heidelberg. On his return from Europe he came to the AVorcester Polytechnic Institute as Assistant Professor of Phvsics. « 15

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John E. Sinclair, Ph.D., Professor of Higher Mathematics. Doctor Sinclair is a radnate of Dartmouth College, being a member of the Class of 1858. He spent a year in teaching in Adrian, Mich., and in 1859 he went to Washington Universitv as a tntor. In 1863 he returned to his Alma IMater and be¬ came Professor of Mathematics in the Chandler Department of the college, which position he held until coming to Tech in 1868. He has been associ¬ ated, thus, with the Institute throngh- ont her entire history. He received the degree of A.M. from Washington University in 1863 and in 1879 from Dartmonth College. In 1883 he was given by Dartmonth the degree of Ph.D. While no longer actively con¬ nected with the Institute, he will not soon be forgotten at Tech, surely not by the Class of 1909, whose faltering steps he guided through the mazes of higher mathematics. Leonard P. Kinnicutt, S.D., Professor of Chemistry. Doctor Kinnicutt graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the Class of 1875. He then studied two vears and a half abroad, spending one year at Heidel¬ berg and a vear and a half at the University of Bonn. On his return to America Dr. Kinnicutt studied a short time at Johns Hopkins Univer¬ sity and became Instructor in Quali¬ tative Analysis at Harvard. In 1882 Dr. Kinnicutt received the degree of S.D. from Harvard, and one year later came to W. P. I. as Assistant Professor of Chemistry. In 1885 he received the full professorshi]). Doctor Kinnicutt is a recognized authority on sanitation and has made a careful and exhaustive studv of this subject, both in this country and abroad. 14

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Zelotes Wood Coombs, A.M., Professor of Modern Languages, Professor Coombs was graduated from Amherst College in 1888. During the following year he was an instruc¬ tor in the Brooklyn Polytechnic In¬ stitute. Later he attended the Uni¬ versity of Virginia both as student and instructor. He came to the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1890 as instructor in modern lan¬ guages, serving also as clerk to the President. In 1891 he went abroad and studied at the University of Ber¬ lin, and upon his return to the In¬ stitute was made Assistant Professor of Modern Languages. In 1901 he was made Professor of French, and the following summer he spent in study in Paris. Since 1903 he has been the head of the Language De¬ partment. Professor Coombs is the Faculty Director of Athletics at the Institute, and the cause of good, clean athletics gains from him hearty encouragement, and finds in him a staunch supporter. 16