Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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President Hollis has now been at the Institute during ten years. His admin¬ istration has reflected the training of his distinguished career. In 1893 he resigned from the United States Navy, where he had been com¬ missioned, since his graduation from Annapolis in 1878, and joined the faculty of Harvard University as Professor of Engineering. The design and construc¬ tion of the Harvard Stadium and the building of the Harvard Union were sub¬ sequent tributes to his engineering administration at the University. In 1913, Dr. Holl is became President of W. P. I. He has guided the affairs of the Institute through the critical period of the war, and later through the fin¬ ancial crisis occasioned by the discontinuance of the yearly state grants. By his recent resignation, the Worcester Polytechnic Institute is losing a most valuable leader. Active in national affairs in war and peace, an authority on education, and a public speaker, his fame has been ever increasing from the time when he was a lecturer at the Naval War College. His ability in engin¬ eering has earned him several honorary degrees, and the presidency of the Am¬ erican Society of Mechanical Engineers. Those of us who are well acquainted with President Hollis can best appre¬ ciate his true greatness, and sterling qualities so highly honored in the outside world. He has been interested, impartial, just, energetic, and thoroughly a gentleman, in all our dealings with him. It is the earnest hope of the Class of ’23 that his successor may be a worthy one. We wish for Ira N. Hollis many more rich years of service. We shall always remember with pride our associations with this great educator, admin¬ istrator, and engineer. •AFTERnATH 1923 , Page twenty-five