The University of California: In MemoriamThe thirteenth day of December nineteen hundred and thirty-one |
[Program]
ADDRESS . . . . . . WALTER MORRIS HART
QUARTETT NO. 4. OP. 18 . . . . . . . . L. van Beethoven
- Allegro ma non troppo
- Andante Scherzoso
- Menuetto
- Allegro
QUARTETT NO. 2. OP. 76 . . . . . . . . Josef Haydn
- Allegro
- Andante
- Menuetto
- Vivace
ELEGISCHER GESANG. OP. 118 . . . . . . L. van Beethoven
MEMBERS OF THE STRING QUARTETT:
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MEMBERS OF THE STRING QUARTETT:
- Antonio De Grassi, first violin
- Marian Nicholson, second violin
- Winifred Connolly, viola
- Dorothy Dukes Dimm, 'cello
MEMBERS OF THE VOCAL QUARTETT:
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MEMBERS OF THE VOCAL QUARTETT:
- Mrs. Orrin K. McMurray, Soprano
- Mrs. Lloyd Harter, Contralto
- Mr. M. J. Goodman, Tenor
- Mr. Mynard Jones, Bass
. . . whose works are truth
Florian Cajori, Mathematics: Berkeley
Florian Cajori was born at Saint Aignan near Thusis in Switzerland February 28, 1859, came to the United States in 1875 and was graduated at the University of Wisconsin in 1883. The year 1884-85 he spent at the Johns Hopkins University and in 1885 was called to Tulane University to teach mathematics. A breakdown in health sent him to Colorado, where he prepared a monograph on the Teaching and History of Mathematics in the United States. This started him in the direction of his life work.
In 1889 he joined the faculty of Colorado College. There he published a history of elementary mathematics in 1896 and a history of physics in 1899. He was then invited to contribute to the fourth volume of Cantor's treatise on the history of mathematics which appeared in 1908. Year by year his scholarship became more and more profound and the number and quality of his contributions to the history of mathematics increased steadily to the time of his death August 15, 1930. He was appointed professor of the history of mathematics in the University of California in 1918, where he came to be recognized as the leading historian of mathematics in this country.
Cordelia Crain, Public Speaking: Berkeley
Cordelia Crain was born in Alton, Illinois, March 28, 1894. The family moved successively to Florida, to Illinois, and to Pueblo, Colorado, where Cordelia attended school and won a scholarship that enabled her to spend a year at Colorado College. At the University of California she received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1918, and that of Master of Arts in 1919. After teaching two years Miss Crain went to Radcliffe College as a graduate student. She there received the degree of Master of Arts in 1923 and studied for the doctorate from 1923 to 1925. Meanwhile, Miss Crain was associated with Professor Winter of Harvard as his assistant in Public Speaking in five summer sessions at Harvard and four years at the New Church Theological School in Cambridge. Miss Crain came to Berkeley in 1925 as associate in the department of Public Speaking. In 1927 she received her doctorate (in English) from Stanford University. She was made instructor in Public Speaking in the University of California in 1927, which position she held until her death February 19, 1931.
Arthur Starr Eakle, Minerology: Berkeley
Arthur Starr Eakle was born in Washington, D. C., on July 27, 1862. He received his doctorate, magna cum laude, from the University of Munich in 1896. He married Fannie V. Kenney in 1899 and in 1900 came to Berkeley. He became assistant professor in 1903, associate professor in 1913, full professor in 1919 and professor emeritus in 1929. He died at Honolulu, July 5th 1931 while studying the minerals of Hawaii.
Professor Eakle contributed much to science by the discovery of new minerals. He was highly esteemed by the mineralogists of the world, was a member of the Mineralogical Society of America and its president in 1925. Of a genial disposition, kindly, considerate, obliging and cooperative, he was active in social and civic affairs. The community in which he lived no less than the University is the poorer for his passing; and his colleagues in the Academic Senate mourn his loss.
George Cunningham Edwards, Mathematics: Berkeley
George Cunningham Edwards was born at Spencer, Indian Territory, June 18, 1852. His father was Reverend John Edwards, related to Jonathan Edwards, the New England philosopher and cleric. At the age of ten years Edwards came overland with his parents to San Francisco. After studying at the McClure Military Academy in Oakland and the College of California, he received the degree Ph.B. at the University of California in 1873. He was the third student to register at the University of California after it opened its doors and was thereafter continuously connected with the institution as student, professor, and professor emeritus until his death. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him in 1923. His life work was teaching mathematics at the University of California. For a period Colonel Edwards was commandant of the cadets. The qualities of his personality endeared him to a multitude of students and colleagues. His loyalty to the University and his high ideals enabled him to exert a wide and admirable influence. He died November 19, 1930.
Isaac Flagg, Greek: Berkeley
Isaac Flagg was a lover of solitude, whose sensitive soul turned naturally to idealism, unworldliness, elevation of thought, and scrupulous refinement of speech. The classics engaged his attention from boyhood. With little taste for erudition and research, he acquired a mastery of the subtleties of the ancient
(Born 1843, died 1931. A.B., Harvard, 1864; Ph.D. Göttingen, 1871; LL.D., California, 1924. Tutor in Greek, Harvard, 1865-69; Professor of Greek, Cornell, 1871-88; Associate Professor of Greek, California, 1891-1909; Professor Emeritus, 1909-1931).
William Charles Hassler, Preventive Medicine and Hygiene: San Francisco
William Charles Hassler was one whose efforts and energies were given untiringly to serve the public health needs of his community.
It was due largely to him that the cooperation of the University, in which he was an inspiring teacher, with the San Francisco City Hospital was made fruitful. This achievement is not the least of his memorials.
Hassler graduated from Cooper Medical College in 1892. From 1915 until his untimely death he was Health Officer of the City of San Francisco. In 1926 he was chosen to represent the United States at the League of Nations' Conference on Municipal Sanitation. The value of his activities was recognized when he was made a member of the Public Health Committee of the League. For years he was an indefatigable worker in the American Public Health Association; at the time of his death August 1, 1931 he was its President elect. With Dr. Hassler's passing, this community loses an eminent public servant who was a citizen of great unselfishness and of militant righteousness.
Arthur Henry Hoffman, Agricultural Engineering: Davis
Arthur Henry Hoffman was born in Washington, Iowa, August 13, 1873, and died in Sacramento, California, May 19, 1931.
Education: Iowa Weslyan University A.B. degree 1897, M.S. degree 1905, Iowa State College B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering 1905, B.S. degree in Agricultural Engineering 1915 and the same year the professional degree in Electrical Engineering.
Positions: He held positions at Iowa State College, Rutgers University, New Mexico State College, and came to the University of California,
His outstanding work was in connection with air cleaners and oil filters for internal combustion engines. Engineers from all parts of the world visited his laboratory and studied his methods. He was a member of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers; Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education; Society of Automotive Engineers; Sigma Xi and Beta Theta Pi. His passing leaves a vacancy in the ranks of our scientific workers but the results of his research conducted so thoroughly and accurately continue to live.
John Galen Howard, Architecture: Berkeley
John Galen Howard was born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts May 8, 1864, died in San Francisco July 18, 1931. His professional training in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was completed (after five years of experience under the eminent architects H. H. Richardson, Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, and McKim, Mead and White) at l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts and by travel in Europe.
Professor Howard's career was early distinguished by work of major importance. Recognition in New York, where he was first established, led, through the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Competition, to his coming to California in 1901. While the architect of many fine buildings hereabout, the interest of this community naturally centers in those with which Professor Howard had to do on this Campus, where he not only established the general scheme, but designed and built the Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Greek Theatre, California Hall, Benjamin Ide Wheeler Hall, the Stephens Union, the Sather Gate, the Sather Tower, Boalt Hall, the Doe Library, Agriculture Hall, Hilgard, LeConte, Gilman, Hesse and Haviland Halls and, as Chairman of the Commission, the Memorial Stadium.
Paralleling this great accomplishment ran a remarkable diversity of other interests. He was a classical scholar and an author. His epic poems Brunelleschi and Pheidias are richly significant to workers in the arts. Finally, and probably best in its eventual power for good, the School of Architecture at the University stands as his monument. In the thirty years since its small beginnings it has come, under his guidance for the most part, to full recognition by the profession to which he devoted his life.
Myer Edward Jaffa, Nutrition: Berkeley
Myer Edward Jaffa, Professor Emeritus of Nutrition, died at Berkeley, June 28, 1931. He was born in Sydney, Australia, October 6, 1857, and was brought to California at the age of nine. He entered the University in 1873, and was graduated in 1877. In 1896, he was awarded the degree of Master of Science. From the time of his graduation until his death, he was connected with the work of the University. From Assistant Chemist of the Agricultural Experiment Station in 1879, he rose to the rank of Professor of Nutrition in 1908. His labors were concerned chiefly with the problems of food chemistry.
Professor Jaffa was largely instrumental in having passed the California Food and Drug Laws, formulated on the same basis as the Federal Food and Drug Act of 1906. He acted as Director of the State Food and Drug Laboratory from 1908-1915 and again from 1925 until his death.
Patrick Beveridge Kennedy, Agronomy: Berkeley
Patrick Beveridge Kennedy, professor of Agronomy and Agrostologist in the Experiment Station; born near Glasgow, Scotland, June 17, 1874; educated in Scotland, England, Canada, and the United States, Ph.D., Cornell University, 1899. Professor of Botany and Horticulture, University of Nevada, 1900-1914. Professor of Agronomy, University of California, 1914 to date of his death, January 18, 1930.
In his botanical studies he took a special interest in the clovers and made important contributions to their taxonomy. He also published on grasses, saltbushes, forage plants, alpine plants, and plant ecology. He did much to advance practical agronomy, and by the introduction of various grasses and forage plants improved the stock ranges of California. His was a modest and genial personality, and his willing helpfulness to all who sought his counsel can be testified to abundantly by students, colleagues, practical gardeners and agriculturalists. The herbaria of economic plants, weeds and seeds, which he assembled and which remain with the University, are unequaled in the west.
Lieutenant Commander Norman Lloyd Kirk, Naval Science and Tactics: Berkeley
Lieutenant Commander Norman Lloyd Kirk, U. S. Navy, Associate Professor of Naval Science and Tactics, was drowned in Clear Lake, California, June 17, 1931. Kirk, born in Norwich, Canada, July 10, 1888, was appointed a midshipman to the U. S. Naval Academy from Minnesota in July, 1907. He graduated in May, 1911, and was appointed
Frederick Clinton Lewitt, Otology, Rhinology, and Laryngology: San Francisco
Frederick Clinton Lewitt, qui totam vitam in urbe Sancti Francisci degit, medicus laudem atque gratiam meritus est. Obiit die XVI Junii a. MCMXXXI.
William Adams Lippincott, Poultry Husbandry: Berkeley
William Adams Lippincott was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, July 3, 1882, and died in Berkeley, California, January 5, 1931.
Education: Illinois College A.B. degree, 1903; University of Wisconsin, M.S. degree, 1917; Ph.D. degree 1920.
Positions: Assistant Professor Iowa State College, 1911, 1912; Professor Kansas State Agricultural College, 1912-1923; Professor and Head of Poultry Division, College of Agriculture, University of California, 1923 to the time of his death.
His researches were largely in the field of genetics of poultry; his textbook Poultry Production, published in 1914 is now in its fourth edition. Remembered among his colleagues for his genial personality, high standard of ethics and keen interest in students, he set a worthy example in academic life and service as a hard worker and sympathetic critic of the work of others.
Matthew Christopher Lynch, Jurisprudence: Berkeley
1882-1931; B.L., 1906, J.D. 1908, Instructor and Professor in active service School of Jurisprudence 1910-1924, University of California. A great teacher--his courses in Contracts and Sales were generally regarded as the best in the School--he saw beyond the subject to the personality of the
A wise counselor and administrator, behind the machinery of institutions he saw the interplay of human personalities. Student organizations sought his membership and advice. His activities included Faculty representative on the Executive Committee, Assistant to President Wheeler during the war, and later to the Federal Reserve Agent, legal consultant, draftsman of the City Manager provisions of the Berkeley Charter, Counsel for the City of Berkeley. His devotion to the University never failed. After he was stricken many made pilgrimages to Altadena to learn of the University from him and of their opportunities for service. Valiantly his mind contributed to the support of a devoted family when the body gave way. As the inevitable end drew close he arranged his affairs and with the never failing sparkling wit and buoyant courage passed serenely on.
William Diller Matthew, Palaeontology: Berkeley
William Diller Matthew, born at St. John, New Brunswick, February 19, 1871, attended New Brunswick College and later went to Columbia University, where he took the degree of Ph.D. in 1895. He then became Assistant Palaeontologist in the American Museum of Natural History, and gradually worked up to higher positions in this institution until he became Curator in Chief of the Earth Sciences, a position which he held from 1922 to 1927. Matthew was Professor of Palaeontology in the University of California from 1927 to the time of his death September 24, 1930.
During his association with the American Museum of Natural History Matthew took a prominent part in several geological and palaeontological expeditions and surveys. In 1927 he received the distinction of being elected a member of the Royal Society of London. He belonged to many learned societies in this country and was a corresponding member of several societies abroad. He was the author of numerous papers on geological and palaeontological subjects. His most widely known contribution is his paper on Climate and Evolution. By common consent he is regarded as one of the foremost investigators in the field of palaeontology.
William Augustus Merrill, Latin: Berkeley
William Augustus Merrill, born in 1860 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and graduated from Amherst College in 1880, came in 1894 to the University of California as Professor of the Latin Language and Literature. This chair he occupied, as Professor
Lillian Mary Moore, Physiology: Berkeley
Lillian Mary Moore, born in New Mexico in 1887, attended first Wellesley College, then the University of California where she received her bachelor's degree and her doctorate. In 1923 she was appointed Assistant Professor and Lecturer in Physiology. From her graduation until her death on August 2, 1929, her life and service were devoted to the University. Her most important work was concerned with the regulation of body temperature. She had already pushed on to new views, and she has left much both in her published and unpublished work which points the way for subsequent research. In addition to her scientific interests, she, as Assistant to the Dean of Women, gave time and strength to administration and to the needs of individual students. She had rare gifts of mind and heart which combined to make her a scholar and a teacher.
Hugo Karl Schilling, German: Berkeley
Hugo Karl Schilling was born at Saalfeld, Germany, on March 28, 1861. At the early age of seventeen he entered the University of Leipzig where, after having spent two years in France and Ireland, he obtained his doctor's degree in 1885. His first position in America was in the Johns Hopkins University; from 1886 to 1891 he was professor of modern languages at Wittenberg College, and from 1891 to 1901 assistant professor of German at Harvard. In 1901 he was called to the University of California to assume the chairmanship of the Department of German. As a scholar well grounded in philology and a specialist in Goethe he made his influence widely felt here. In 1928 he was President of the Modern Language Association of America. After his retirement in the year following he devoted his energy to his Goethe-dictionary, which his sudden death on July 12, 1931 prevented him from completing.
John Wilson Shiels, Medicine: San Francisco
John Wilson Shiels born in San Francisco of Scotch parentage in 1868, was sent to Scotland for his schooling. He was graduated in 1895 from the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh; at this time he also became a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, and of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Dr. Shiels returned to San Francisco and was licensed to practice medicine in California in 1898.
At the time of his death, December 30, 1929, he was Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Medical School. He first joined the staff in 1906. He was instrumental in organizing the San Francisco Polyclinic and in its beginnings one of its mainstays. Medicine in California has lost one it could ill afford to lose; a great teacher, a great practitioner, a practitioner his colleagues loved, and with whom they were proud to be associated; a physician in whom his patients found always a dependable, kindly, understanding friend.
Earl James Sinclair, Jurisprudence: Berkeley
Earl James Sinclair, born in San Luis Obispo, California, on March 20, 1891, received his A.B. degree from the University of California in 1913 and his J.D. degree in 1915. In the same year he became a member of the bar of California. He was appointed lecturer in law in the School of Jurisprudence in 1923, and occupied that position until his untimely death on January 3, 1931. He taught the law of Municipal Corporations during all that period, but during the later years, conducted courses in Practice in Intersessions and also supervised the legal aid work done by students of the School in Alameda County. He was married to Madge Dightman August 15, 1912, who survives him.
During the greater part of the time in which he was acting as lecturer in the School, Dr. Sinclair was the city Attorney of Berkeley, and was engaged in the private practice of his profession.
Dr. Sinclair was no mere routine teacher. He devoted to his University work the best of his mind and talents, and was generous of his time and talents to his students and his associates on the faculty. His learning and intellectual powers, his kindness, love of truth and justice, won respect and affection.
Austin Tappan Wright, Jurisprudence: Berkeley
Austin Tappan Wright, born at Hanover, New Hampshire, August 20, 1883, was the son of John Henry Wright, an eminent Greek scholar, and of Mary Tappan Wright, a talented novelist. Austin spent his boyhood in Cambridge, in contact with the best culture of our country.
He received his A.B. degree from Harvard in 1901, and his LL.B. degree cum laude in 1905. A year of study at Oxford intervened. He traveled in Europe, and visited Greece with his father who was engaged in archaeological research. He was on the editorial staff of the Harvard Law Review during his years at the law school.
He practiced law in Mr. Brandeis' office in Boston, until the latter became an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. In 1916 he joined the faculty of the School of Jurisprudence of our University, being an active member of the University community from July 1916 to July 1924, when he left us to become professor of law in the University of Pennsylvania. His death occurred September 18, 1931. Professor Wright's special interest was in admiralty and maritime law. He was also an expert in the law of corporations and partnership. His simple and charming personality, his sense of life and his delight in the study of law and literature, made him an unusual teacher.
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Title: 1931, University of California: In Memoriam
By: University of California (System) Academic Senate, Author
Date: [1931]
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