Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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Arthur tk ' xtrr iButterfiplii, M. M. A.lM. As a teacher, Professor Butterfield’s studies have been varied and his successes have been rewarded with many Faculty promotions. Graduating from Worcester Tech in the class of ’93, he made a very high record in scholarship. Professor Butterfield returned to the Institute and received his M.S. degree in ’98, and, still in the quest of knowledge, he turned to Columbia University, where he was awarded his A.M. in 1904. The years between Professor Butterfield’s post-graduate studies were occupied in gaining experience in teaching, and thus we find that he has held many professorships. During the four years immediately succeeding graduation he acted as assistant in the Civil Department at Tech, from which he transferred to the University of Vermont, where he eventually became Professor of Mathematics and Mechanics. Returning to his Alma Mater, Mr. Butterfield served first in the Mathematics Department, and later in the Civil Department also, his present official title being Professor of Mathematics and Geodesy. Professor Butterfield is a man among men, and thus it is that we find him affiliated with several societies on the “Hill.” His creative mind has shown such capacity for research as to secure his election to Sigma Xi, and his high scholarship combined with his worth to Tech have earned his membership in Tau Beta Pi. Always active in the affairs of the student branch of the Y. M. C. A., he is a member of its advisory board. In “Who’s Who at Tech” Professor Butterfield would be listed as the man to whose untiring efforts Tech’s superb athletic field and excellently appointed gymnasium are due. It took a good deal of vision to see this new era and a great deal of courage to push through the plans. As secretary of the W. P. I. Alumni Association, our friend has done much towards collecting the $275,000 up to date, and his promise to make it $350,000 assures a sufficient endowment to keep our athletic equipment in its place as a leader among technical schools. Our class-room memories of the master are of the pleasantest and he surely did teach us Calculus. How well we remember the stories of his boyhood days—which he never has forgotten—and his illustrations of mathematical principles taken from “Country Life in America.” As a juggler, he was without peer and there was nothing he could not [ S 1

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WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE do with a piece of chalk. His examples at the end of the hour were infallible, and he took great joy in encouraging us in our work and in correcting our papers with an enormous check, or, more commonly, a question mark of even greater proportions. But we like to remember Professor Butterfield as our friend, for in spite of his importance he was ever very approachable; in spite of being extremely busy he always had time to advise and encourage us; and he held the interest of every Tech man very closely at heart. His life has been full of service to Tech and to others, and Professor Butterfield has always kept “A. D. B.” much in the background. But it takes more than a broad brimmed hat and a long overcoat to hide this great man, so there are few who do not know and appreciate his wholesome frankness, open-mindedness, and self- sacrifice. I 0 1