Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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FACULTY

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Faculty Edmund A. Engler, Ph.D., LL.D., President. John E. Sinclair, Ph.D., Professor of Higher Mathematics, Emeritus. Levi L. Conant, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics. George H. Haynes, Ph.D., Professor of Economics and Political Science. Walter L. Jennings, Ph.D., Professor of Organic Chemistry. Zelotes Wood Coombs, A.M., Professor of English, French, andGerman. Harold B. Smith, M.E., Professor of Electrical Engineering. Arthur Willard French, C.E., Professor of Civil Engineering. A. Wilmer Duff, D.Sc., Professor of Physics. William W. Bird, S.D., Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Alton L. Smith, M.S., Professor of Drawing and Machine Design. Charles M. Allen, M.S., Professor of Hydraulic Engineering. Joseph 0. Phelon, M.M.E., Professor of Electrical Engineering. Arthur S. Richey, E.E., Professor of Electric Railway Engineering. Carleton A. Read, S.B., Professor of Steam Engineering. Edward L. Hancock, M.S., Professor of Applied Mechanics. Arthur W. Ewell, Ph.D., Professor of Physics. Arthur D. Butterfield, M.S., A.M., Professor of Mathematics. Howard Chapin Ives, C.E., Assistant Professor of Railroad Engineer¬ ing. George R. Olshausen, M.E., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Theoretical Electrical Engineering. David L. Gallup, M.E., Assistant Professor of Gas Engineering. Carl D. Knight, E.E., Assistant Professor of Experimental Electrical Engineering. Frederic Bonnet, Jr., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Robert C. Sweetser, S.B., Assistant Professor of Analytical Chem¬ istry. 16

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Professors Levi I,. Conant, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics “ Conie ” has endeared himself to all Worcester Tech men by his attitude of absolute fairness toward those in his charge, and by his personal interest in each man. After hearing his high-pitched, mild voice expound¬ ing the difference between a “ horse chestnut and a chestnut horse ” in recitation, one would hardly credit the performances of his past on the base¬ ball field in the green of Dartmouth. But to give credence to these things one has only to see and hear him at a B. A. A. meet, when he lends his support to the upholders of the standing of his Alma Mater. Though our memories of “ calc ” and “ trig ” may not be of the pleasantest, yet when we think of the personal contact with this real man, all the unpleasantness will be forgiven and forgotten in the pleasure of the honor that is done us by our acquaintanceship with him. George H. Haynes, Ph.D., Professor of Economics and Political Science “ Jinny ”—we don’t know where he got that cognomen; it doesn’t fit him, but it sticks to him tighter than some brother that we read about somewhere. When we are in a grinful mood, we like to think of him—his numerous degrees of longitude thrown with careless and inherent grace over a Washburn Shops drawing-stand; his faithful cowlick erect at its post- delivering to us sundry preachments on the psychology of the mob, and winding up with that drastic objurgation, “ Go to! ” (We were going to 18