Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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interested in athletics, especially football. And he still has that interest, for he is always on deck at the games, and it is his custom to entertain the football team at his house each year. A singular trait, that is seen each year in his classroom, is the method in which he shows the students how to select an “ arbitrarily chosen ” point. He closes his eyes and hurls a piece of chalk in the general direction of the blackboard. If it strikes the slate he considers the point of impact as “ arbitrarily chosen.” Professor Butter¬ field usually has a few stories up his sleeve, and also he usually has a few problems for the class at the end of each hour. He enjoys sitting at his desk and watching the progress of the students in the “ very simple” inte¬ grations that he has just put on the board. He enjoys taking the papers of each one, as they are brought up to him, and either “ checking ” them or, as he exhales a long breath, placing a long, lean question-mark through the whole example. Howard Chapin Ives, C.E., Assistant Professor of Railroad Engineering A second cousin to the gink that built the first wooden nutmeg, it stands to reason that “ Reddy ” comes from the Nutmeg State. There are many mysteries surrounding this specimen of the genus Civil. Possibly the most puzzling question that occurs to us is why he was ever christened Howard Chapin. How could they have gazed at his lovely, wavy, straw¬ berry-blond locks and then have perpetrated Howard Chapin? Anyhow, the defect has been remedied and only in the catalogue can you find his official cognomen. “ Reddy ” he has been, is, and always will be, unless some of those Chemists get busy with the peroxide. His early career was unmarked by any distinction except an ability to ask fool questions, a trait which he has never outgrown. Sheff was enlightened by his hair for three long years, but the sad part of it was that the enlightening was all one-sided, at least we have never seen any signs of reciprocation on Sheff’s part. After having dazzled Sheff, “ Reddy ” gave the Pennsylvania lines, “ West of Pittsburg ,” the value of his presence. Don’t forget that “ West of Pittsburg,” for that is the important part of the job. The only reason that he isn’t down there now is because he was mistaken for a danger signal so often that they couldn’t keep the schedule. 26

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Edward L. Hancock, M.S., Professor of Applied Mechanics Professor Hancock was an unknown quantity when he came to us at the first of our Junior year, but soon became one of the most popular of our profs. Both in classroom and in lab we have found him agreeable and considerate, which has helped to make his popularity. Before coming to the Institute, Professor Hancock had acquired considerable fame as an author of books on mechanics and kindred subjects. Since his coming he has rearranged the courses which he teaches in such a way as greatly to increase their value. We look back with pleasure to our associations with him. Arthur W. Ewell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physics Doctor Ewell has as yet failed to break down under the burden of a string of nicknames, such as “ Punk,” “ Schusme,” “ Fizzle,” and others too numerous to mention. Having been long accustomed to deal with small units of time, he has evidently decided that the time consumed in enun¬ ciating the second syllable of “ Mister ” is wasted; consequently we have become accustomed to being addressed as “ Miss ” without thinking we had made a mistake and got into a co-ed school. His efforts to instill scien¬ tific accuracy into our methods have met with success as varied as the sub¬ jects into whom he tried to instill it. Pleasant memories will hover around the old brown cap which has so recently been elevated to a dignified posi¬ tion above the steering gear of the Doctor’s new automobile. We shall be surprised if the Doctor’s graceful form does not chase madly through our day dreams in pursuit of a probable error when we review memories of Tech at some future date. Arthur D. Butterfield, M.S., A.M., Assistant Professor of Mathematics If he should put on high leather boots and gauntlets one would think that a western ranchman was coming over the Hill. But when he-has hung¬ up his hat in his office and has entered the classroom, we find a broad- shouldered, robust man of athletic physique. When an undergraduate at the Institute, with the Class of 1893, Professor Butterfield was very much

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He hectored the poor cusses at U. of P. for a year or so and then we had to suffer. During his career at Tech, he has collected an enormous number of replies to his inevitable remark, “ Are there any questions? ” He always defers any answer to those questions until the next recitation, but we never knew that recitation to come. But when all’s said and done, there are lots of things that have been poked into our ivory domes by “ Reddy ” that never, would have gotten there any other way. Like the rest of the department, he has given us a square deal, and when we leave the Hill we are leaving a good friend of the 1911 Civils. George R. Olshausen, M.E., Ph. D., Assistant Professor of ' Theoretical Electrical Engineering Professor Olshausen received his first degree in Washington University in 1890, and has acted in many and varied capacities since that time. His work has been mostly of a theoretical character, however, and because of remarkable proficiency in that respect, he came to the Institute in 1907 to teach mathematics and theoretical electrical engineering. The courses in this subject have been unique to the students in their presentation. Professor Olshausen is wont to start a problem by remark¬ ing, “ We’ll take a point, ‘ p,’ out here and call it ‘q,’ ” and then goes on to explain, “It is not usually customary,” but “ all what you got to do,” when the present system of units is not satisfactory, is to make another system, “ if you like.” A living instance and exponent of the fourth possible curve in human attitude and poise, as well as an extreme advocate of the extended promul¬ gation of the helical tendencies in gestures, George has endeared himself to us by his remarkable manner of conducting a class and by his absolute dis¬ regard of mathematical difficulties. David L. Gallup, M.E., Assistant Professor of Gas Engineering “ Davy ” has risen from the ranks of the instructors and become an assistant professor during our sojourn at Tech. Gas engines are his spe¬ cialty, and he generally has one spitting violently into the atmosphere of 27