Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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.. ' mmamm MMMwm . -- ; ■■ ■ ' • ' ' ■ ONTENT Foreword. 4 Dedication. 7 Aftermath Board.11 Views of Institute.12 President Hollis.19 Corporation.20 Faculty Section.21 Graduate Students.58 Senior Section.60 Four Years at Tech with 1924 . . . 139 Permanent Class Officers.153 Senior Addresses.154 Junior Section.157 Sophomore Section.163 Freshman Section.169 Athletics.175 Wearers of “W”.202 Activities and Organizations .... 203 Social Activities.227 Fraternities.233 Department Sections.285 Advertising Section.307 . vxnX;

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Militant (fimtraii limutpr “Bill” A.B., Harvard, 1917; A.M., Clark University, 1921; Instructor in German, Browne Nichols School, 1917-18; Modern Languages, W. P. I„ 1918- 1922; Fellow in the History of Modern Culture and Thought, Clark Uni¬ versity, 1922-23; Assistant Professor of Modern Languages, W. P. I„ 1922-. It was with profound regret that the Class of 1924 learned of the death of Professor William Conrad Himmer. After a long illness, culminating in a gen¬ eral breakdown, Professor Himmer died in Lawrence, Massachusetts, September 20th, 1923. A biography of the life of Professor Himmer would contain a romantic story of the struggle for an education. Thrown on his own resources while still a boy, he set for himself a high ideal and decided to prepare for the ministry. He was graduated from Bloomfield, (N. J.) Seminary at the head of his class in 1914. Little short of perfection would satisfy him, and probably this unremit¬ ting attention to work under severe conditions did much to undermine a pre¬ viously robust nature. Modifying his plans and refusing flattering offers to enter business circles, he entered Harvard College, and in spite of ill health and worry, went through his course in Germanics with such distinction that he was numbered among the first five in the class of 1917 when he received his B.A. degree. In 1918 he came to W. P. I. as an instructor in modern languages. Both popular and successful as a teacher, he received the appointment to the Faculty as Assistant Professor in 1922. With his health undermined, however, he proved unequal to the strain, and was finally obliged to retire early in March, 1923. During every period of life Professor Himmer possessed the happy faculty of making friends—he was an examplar to loyalty to high ideals, and although he has passed on, the memory of his life will continue to be an inspiration to those who knew him. Page nine