Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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Faculty Levi L. Conant, Ph.D., Acting President and Professor of Mathematics. John E. Sinclair, Ph.D., Professor of Higher Mathematics, Emeritus. 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 and German. 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.B., 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. Albert 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 Engineering. David L. Gallup, M.E., Assistant Professor of Gas Engineering. Carl D. Knight, E.E., Assistant Professor of Experimental Electrical Engineering. Frederick Bonnet, Jr., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Robert C. Sweetser, S.B., Assistant Professor of Analytical Chemistry. Clarence A. Pierce, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Theoretical Electrical Engineering. Died, Oct. 1, 1911. 19

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Professors George H. Haynes, Ph.D., Professor of Economics and Political Science. “ Somewhat apart from the village and nearer the basin of Minas.’’ A little change in wording of this line from Longfellow gives the position of “Jinny” with respect to the other things on the Hill. “ Somewhat apart from mere science and nearer the problems of living ” would be a fitting version. Not forgetting the good that we got out of “Jinny’s” meteoric lectures we look back at them with a smile. It was always a time when the unexpected was likely to happen and it usually did. Either there would be an enlight¬ ening dissertation on the complexity of the married state in relation to woman’s suffrage or a few sarcasms on Schedule K or the Oregon system. Such gentle irony concealed behind a deep and sonorous voice seemed scarcely possible of issuance from a body of such delusive proportions. “ I might remark in pars-sing ” that “Jinny ” hails from Johns-Hopkins, after a few active years at Amherst. We have our suspicions that those Amherst years had “ active ” spelled with a large A and a question mark, although we lack evidence. “ Jinny ” had three whacks at us. Two of them made us read the papers and think we were politicians, and the third had us guessing whether Smith could sue Jones as a common carrier or whether A had a lien on B as a bailee. Most of the time we had to “ lean ” on the way “Jinny” put the question. Be all these as they may, to “ Jinny ” we owe a great debt. It was he who first set us thinking of the great and noble attributes of true manhood and honest citizenship. Beyond the scope of his assigned subjects he taught us to be cultured as he was cultured, kind as he was kind and above all to be a gentleman as he was a gentleman in every sense of the word. And before all science and engineering has been mastered, has he not touched on the things that are to make our lives worth something to the world? 20