College Faculty
Fifteen College faculty members including the President are listed in the Bucknell Catalogue for 1894-1895. Eleven of them and William Gretzinger, the Registrar, are pictured in this composite photograph that appeared in the 1895 L’Agenda, which was produced by the Class of 1895 when they were juniors in 1894. Some of these photographs probably were taken quite some time before 1894. There were seventeen faculty members including the President listed in the 1895-1896 Catalogue when Leo Guido Charles Riemer, A.B. Bucknell University, 1895, was appointed Instructor in Latin and German, and Nelson Fithian Davis, Sc.B, Bucknell University, 1895, was appointed Assistant in Organic Science.
The men pictured in this photograph are listed from left to right for each row beginning with the top row, which is row one. Row one: Enoch Perrine, John P. Crozer Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, A.B., Brown University, 1874, A.M, Brown University, 1882, Litt.D, Pennsylvania College, 1892; William Gundy Owens, Professor of Physics and Chemistry, A.B., Bucknell University, 1880, and A.M., Bucknell University, 1883; Thomas Franklin Hamblin, New Jersey Professor of the Greek Language and Literature, A.B., Colgate University, 1880, and A.M., Colgate University, 1883. Row two: Freeman Loomis, Professor of Modern Languages and Literature, A.B., Bucknell, 1866, A.M., Bucknell, 1869, and Ph.D, Bucknell, 1889; John Howard Harris, President and Professor of Psychology and Ethics, A.B., Bucknell University, 1869, A.M., Bucknell University, 1872, Ph.D. Lafayette College, 1883, LL.D Dickinson College, 1891 and Colgate University, 1892; George G. Groff, Professor of Organic Science, M.D., LL.D. Row three: Frank Ernest Rockwood, Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, A.B. Brown University, 1874, and A.M. Brown University, 1877; William Cyrus Bartol, Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy, A.B., Bucknell University, 1872, and A.M., Bucknell University, 1875; Lincoln Hulley, Professor of History and Hebrew, A.B., Bucknell University, 1888, A.B. Harvard University, 1889, A.M., Bucknell University, 1891, and Ph.D., Chicago University, 1895. Row four: Llewellyn Phillips, Instructor in Elocution, A.B., Bucknell University, 1892; William Christian Gretzinger, Registrar of the University, Ph.B., Bucknell University, 1889; William Emmet Martin, Professor of Logic and Anthropology, and Librarian, A.B., Bucknell University, 1871, and A.M., Bucknell University, 1874.
The four other faculty listed in the 1894-1895 Catalogue who do not appear in the photograph were: Elysee Aviragnet, Instructor in The Romance Languages and Vocal and Instrumental Music, A.B., University of Paris, 1847, A.M, University of Paris, 1852 and Mus. Doc., Bucknell University, 1891; Albert Burns Stewart, Instructor in Mathematics, A.B., Bucknell University, 1876, and A.M., Bucknell University, 1879; Heman Lincoln Wayland, Lecturer on Sociology, A.B., Brown University, 1849, A.M., Brown University, 1852, and D.D.; and George Dana Boardman, Lecturer on Social Ethics, A.B., Brown University, 1852, A.M., Brown University, 1855, D.D., 1865, and LL.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1889.
Three of the College faculty members were cross-listed as faculty of the Female Institute and the Academy. Llewellyn Phillips taught Greek in the Institute and the Academy, and Albert Burns taught mathematics in the Institute and the Academy. Elysee Aviragnet taught vocal and instrumental music and the Romance Languages in the Institute, and he was also Director of the School of Music.
Of these fifteen faculty members, thirteen had received the Bachelor of Arts degree from a Baptist university, and eight of them had received that degree from Bucknell University. Most of them probably had received the “Master of Arts degree, in course” rather than taking graduate work to obtain it. In the Nineteenth Century, three years after receiving the B.A. degree college graduates could apply to the institution from which they had received the degree and could be awarded the M.A. degree if they demonstrated good moral character. Bucknell did not award an “earned” Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy or Master of Science degree until after 1891.
The major source for the information on this page is the Minutes of the Board of Trustees of Bucknell University, 1882-1920 (BT '82-'20). Additional sources are the 1895, 1896, 1897 and 1898 L'Agendas; and the Forty-fifth Annual Catalogue of Bucknell University, 1894-95 (CAT '94-95) and the Forty-sixth Annual Catalogue of Bucknell University, 1895-96 (CAT '95-'96)