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

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List of Faculty Ira Nelson Hollis 11 Boynton Street President of the Institute U. S. Naval Academy, 1878; A.M., (Hon.) Harvard, 1899; L.H.D., Union, 1899; D.Sc., Univ, of Pittsburg, 1912; Professor of Engineering, Harvard, 1893-1913; President of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1913—. George Henry Haynes 7 Otsego Road Professor of Economics and Government A.B., Amherst, 1887; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1893; Instructor in Modern Lan¬ guages, W. P. I., 1887-88; Mathematics, 1 8-89; Modern Languages, 1889-90; Professor of Economics and Government, 1893—. Walter Louis Jennings 18 Boynton Street Professor of Organic Chemistry A.B., Harvard, 1889, A.M., and Ph.D., 1892; Assistant in Chemistry, Harvard, 1890-92; Parker Fellow at Univ. of Berlin, 1893-94; Assistant Professor of Chemistry, W. P. 1., 1894-99; Professor of Organic Chemistry, 1900—. Zelotes Wood Coombs 32 Richards Street Professor of English, and Secretary of the Faculty A.B., Amherst, 1888, and A.M., 1895; Instructor in English, Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, 1888-89; Univ. of Virginia, 1889-90; Clerk and Assistant in Languages, W. P. I., 1890-92; Instructor in Modern Languages, 1892-95; Assistant Professor, 1895-1901; Professor of French, 1901-03; English and Modern Languages, 1903-13; Secretary of the Faculty, 1910—; Professor of English, 1913—. Harold Babbitt Smith 20 Trowbridge Road Professor of Electrical Engineering M.E., Cornell, 1891; Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering, Arkansas State Univ., 1892-93; Professor, Purdue, 1893-96; W. P. I., 1896—. A. WiLMER Duff 52 Fruit Street Professor of Physics B. A., Univ. of New Brunswick, 1884, and Univ, of London, 1887; M.A., Univ. of Edinburgh, 1888, B. Sc., 1892 and D. Sc., 1901; L. L. D., Univ. of New Brunswick, 1920; Professor of Physics, Univ. of Madras, 1899-90; Univ. of New Brunswick, 1890-93; Purdue, 1893-99; W. P. I—. Arthur Willard French 202 RusseR Street Professor of Civil Engineering C. E., Dartmouth, 1892; Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Dartmouth, 1895- 98; Professor, W. P. I., 1899—. William Warren Bird 10 Harvard Street Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Director of the Washburn Sho js B.S., W. P. I., 1887; Instructor in Mechanical Engineering, W. P. I., 1887-91; Assis¬ tant Professor of Steam Engineering, 1894-96; Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Washburn Shops, 1903—. AFTERMATA 1923 Page twenty-six