Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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r 7 J i m n ! aJ - I -il CARLETON ALLEN READ Professor of Steam Engineering B. S., M. I. T., 1891; Instructor in Mechanical Engineering, M. I. T., 1891-99; Professor, New Hampshire State College, 1899- 1908; Professor of Steam Engineering, W. P. I., 1908- We have with us today a noted authority on Steam, Steam Engines, Steam Boilers and Steam Pipes, in fact everything with heat in it, as well as things without heat. Refrigeration, and things like that. You might ask why “B. A.” and not “C. A.,” but as this is a subject of too large a proportion to discuss, we cannot satisfy your curiosity. However, an extended thesis on this subject can be had from Prof. Read’s man, Sammy. Anyone who has had a course with “B. A.” cannot have failed to be deeply impressed with the value of the expressions “and so forth,” “things like that,” “the in¬ scrutable laws of nature,” and numerous other oft repeat¬ ed phrases, used as convenient means for ending sen¬ tences, especially when those sentences would better have ended with a period. We must frankly admit, however, that some of “B. A.’s” odd ways of explaining prob¬ lems were very effective and to the point. To be a good fellow was a particular desire of Prof. Read and most of us appreciate the attitude which he always took toward the class. CARL DUNHAM KNIGHT Assistant Professor of Experimental Electrical Engineering B. S„ W. P. I., 1903, and E. E„ 1908; Instructor in Electrical Engineering, 1904-08; Assistant Professor of Experimental Elec¬ trical Engineering, 1908- When first we met Prof. Knight we were prejudiced in his favor by the fact that he had been through the mill before us. Also we had heard wondrous stories of him, but after a few disillusions even the most optimistic grow skeptical. But for once the “stories were not overdone, in fact they completely failed to do him justice. For he has never been known to lose his tem¬ per—not even when some idiot has tried to send 50 amperes through a five-ampere wattmeter. And his uni¬ versal popularity is attested by the utter lack of even a single “nom de plume.” 7 J 23

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FREDERIC BONNET, JR. Professor of Chemistry B. S., Washington University, 1899; M. S., Harvard, 1902, and Ph. D., 1903; Assistant in Chemistry, Harvard, 1899-1903; Instructor in Chemistry, State University of Iowa, 1903-04; W. P. I., 1904-09; Assistant Professor, 1909-12; Professor, 1913- . Frederic Bonnet, Jr., Professor of Chemistry, is the way his name appears in the catalogue, but to us he has been known as “Doc” Bonnet ever since we met him in Freshman Chemistry. “Doc” started right out in the beginning to get a string of letters after his name, the first ones being “Jr.” In 1899 he acquired a “B. S.” at Washington University; in 1902 an “M. S.” at Harvard, and in 1903 he received a “Ph. D.” (which accounts for the nickname). The only letters he uses, however, are the ones he received first. Although his specialty is Chemistry, he has by no means confined his energies to that field alone, but has become an authority on numerous other subjects, among these being pigs, politics and harmonicas. JOHN HARLAND NELSON Professor of Applied Mechanics B. S„ South Dakota State College, 1905; M. S., University of Illinois, 1909; Instructor in Mathematics, South Dakota State College, 1903-08; University Fellow, University of Illinois, 1908- 09; Assistant Professor of Applied Mechanics, Case, 1909- 12; Professor, W. P. I., 1912- . It “strains” and it “stresses” us to say our au revoir to this member of the Mechanical Dept., but in our au revoir there is not a single “impooity” and all we say is sincere. In our Junior year, Prof. Nelson, whose sobriquet has somehow come to be “Hungry John” (we know not how or even why), left us for a short stay at the Bureau of Standards in Washington. There he was busy on the calibration of their huge testing machines, on which he is an expert. After going to the Watertown Arsenal and testing their machine there he returned to Worcester and resumed his work in “Matscon,” or rather the “Ma¬ terials of Construction.” 24

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DAVID LAMPREY GALLUP B. S. f W. P. I. Engineering, Engineering, Professor of Gas Engineering , 1901, and M. E., 1906; Instructor in Mechanical W. P. I., 1902-09; Assistant Professor of Gas 1909-13; Professor, 1913- Very little need to introduce Prof. “Davy” Gallup to the people who read automobile magazines of today, or who have any knowledge concerning “Who’s Who” in regard to Gas Engines. No one fully appr eciates the real ability of this well dressed, quiet looking individual until they see him watch a mechanic tinker with a gas engine for a while, then with a little remark, sotto voce, chuck his coat and get into the game himself. Then it is they believe he must have a sort of supersight in locat¬ ing trouble, for before he has had time to get his hands dirty the engine is running like the proverbial sewing machine. His recent election to the presidency of the Worcester Auto Club attests his general popularity. CLARENCE ALBERT PIERCE Professor of Theoretical Electrical Engineering B. S., Wesleyan, 1902, and M. S., 1904; Ph. D., Cornell, 1908; Assistant in Physics, Wesleyan, 1902-04; Instructor in Electrical Engineering, Cornell, 1904-11; Assistant Professor, W. P. I., 1911- . “Doc” acquired his education via Mount Hermon, Wesleyan and Cornell. Only the electrics meet this extraordinary man in a scholastic way, and half of them would be entirely willing to forego this privilege to escape the terrors and anxiety of the three required courses in theoretical A. C. But the most rabid of these unhappy ones confess eventually that a large portion of their knowledge of Electricity is due to him. Half the time he forgets his notes, but that doesn’t fuss him one bit, for he wades through the differential equations and what¬ not as if he were reading them from his notes. And then to let the “deep stuff” sink in he tells us of his experi¬ ences with the Westinghouse Co., or at the Bureau of Standards, or possibly how he was almost converted in Ithaca. 26