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To the Memory of Leonard Parker Kinnicutt Eminent Chemist and Sanitarian Skillful and Inspiring Teacher Courteous Gentleman Loyal and Generous Friend This AFTERMATH is Affectionately Dedicated by the Class of 1911
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Lincoln Parker Kinnicutt Professor ' of Chemistry , Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1883-1911 N THE morning of February 6, 1911, the flag on the tower of Boynton Hall hung at half-mast. “ ‘Kin- nie’ is dead! ” It did not seem possible! It does not yet seem possible. For, of all the men who have labored on the Hill, no other has so wrought his personality into Tech life as did “ Kinnie.” How we do miss him! Doctor Kinnicutt was born in Worcester, and with the exception of his student years, his life was spent here. After his graduation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1875 with the degree of Bachelor of Science, he spent four years in the study of chem¬ istry at the universities of Bonn and Heidelberg, followed by a year at Johns Hopkins. He then became an Instructor in Quantitative Analysis at Harvard University, which conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Science. In the fall of 1882 he was made Instructor in Chemistry in the Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial Science, and soon became one of the most indefatigable workers in the development which trans¬ formed a struggling school of uncertain aims into the Worcester Polytech¬ nic Institute. Three years later he was made a full Professor, and from 1893 he was Director of the Chemical Department. When the money for the Salisbury Laboratories was given to the Institute, with two of his colleagues he visited many universities, and his keen observation and careful planning were largely instrumental in making that building and its equipment among the best of its day. In his early years at the Institute, Doctor Kinnicutt found time for not a little research work in varied lines; gradually, however, he specialized in the field of sanitary chemistry, devoting most of his attention to prob¬ lems relating to water supply and sewage disposal. In these lines he became a recognized expert whose counsel was sought by distant cities. Learned societies at home and abroad honored him by election to their member-
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