Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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Tech Shows .... Athletics Drawing by C. A. Bellows, ' 17 Scenes in Alumni Gymnasium The Influence of the Gymnasium . Football Drawing by T. R. Stenbarg, ’17 The Football Season . Baseball Drawing by T. R. Stenberg, ' 17 The Baseball Season . Track Drawing by T. R. Stenberg, ’17 The Track Season The Tennis Club Interclass Basketball The Rifle Club .... Wearers of the “W” . 1917 Aftermath Drawing by H. S. Freeman, ’17 Aftermath Committee Drawing by C. A. Bellows, ’17 Tech Council .... A. S. M. E. Civil Engineering Society Chemistry ..... Electrics ..... Tech News .... Tech Journal .... Y. M. C. A. Dramatics Drawing by C. A. Bellows, ’17 Page Seventh Annual Tech Show . . 243 The Dramatic Association . . . 246 Tech Carnival ..... 247 Musical Association .... 248 Junior Prom Committee . . . 253 Wireless Association .... 255 Commencement Week Committee . 256 Fraternities Drawing by H. S. Freeman, ’17 . 257 Inter-Fraternity Council . . . 258 Phi Gamma Delta .... 259 Sigma Alpha Epsilon .... 263 Delta Tau . . . . . . 267 Alpha Tau Omega . . . . 271 Theta Chi ...... 275 Lambda Chi Alpha .... 279 Phi Sigma Kappa .... 283 Cosmopolitan Club .... 287 Tau Beta Pi . . . . . 291 Sigma Xi ...... 295 Skull. 298 Interfraternity Competition . . . 300 In a Lighter Vein Two-Color Drawing by P. S. Has- elton, ’18 . . . Facing 300 Sights Familiar to Senior Mechanics Drawing by C. A. Bellows, ’17 . 301 The End Drawing by C. A. Bellows, ’17 . 340 Ads Drawing by C. M. Lyman, ’20 . 341 Page 206 207 208 209 211 213 215 217 219 221 223 225 111 228 229 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 241

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ICmt ICrnnarli (Honant TO R. LEVI L. CONANT, Professor of Mathematics, for more than twenty-five years a member of the Institute Faculty, Senior Professor since 1911, was almost instantly killed by an auto truck, October 11, 1916. Levi Leonard Conant was born of old New England stock in Littleton, Mass., March 3, 1857. He prepared for college at Phillips Andover, graduating from Dartmouth in 1879. For eight years he was engaged in public school work in Minnesota and South Dakota, serving later for three years as instructor in the South Dakota School of Mines. The year 1890-91 he spent in graduate work in Math¬ ematics at Clark University. In 1891 Professor Conant was appointed Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the Institute, succeeding Dr. T. E. N. Eaton, who had resigned owing to ill health. Prof. J. E. Sinclair was head of the department. He entered upon his duties in September, 1891, and his service was unbroken until his death. In 1 892 he was made Associate Professor of Mathematics; in 1899 Professor of Mathe¬ matics. When Professor Sinclair resigned in 1908, Professor Conant succeeded him as head of the department. In 1915, when the John E. Sinclair Professorship of Mathematics was created. Professor Conant was named its first incumbent. From 1911 to 1913, he served the Institution as Acting President, discharging the ar¬ duous duties of this position most creditably. Dartmouth College conferred upon Professor Conant the degree of Master of Arts in 1887, and in 1893 he secured the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Syracuse University. Busied as he always was with Institute affairs. Dr. Conant nevertheless found time to serve city and state. From 1900 to 1909 he was a member of the School Board of the city of Worcester, the last year being Chairman. From 1 909 to 1914 he was a member of the State Board of Education. Professor Conant was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advance¬ ment of Science, a member of the American Mathematical Society, also of the London Mathematical Society. He published several books. The Number Con¬ cept—Its Origin and Development; Original Exercises in Plane and Solid Geom¬ etry; Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, and Logarithmic and Trigonometric Ta¬ bles. He was engaged upon another work for publication at the time of his death.