College Faculty
Twenty-nine College faculty members including the President are listed in the Bucknell Catalogue for 1914-1915. Twenty-six of them and Walter S. Wilcox, the Registrar, are pictured in this composite that is composed of photographs that appeared in the 1915 L’Agenda, which was produced by the Class of 1915 when they were juniors in 1914. There were thirty faculty members including the President listed in the 1915-1916 Catalogue. Harry Schiedy Everett, A.B. Bucknell University, 1912, A.M. Bucknell University, 1913 and Sc.M., Bucknell University, 1914, was appointed Instructor in Mathematics, replacing Paul Caris; Ernest Lancelot Taylor, B.S, Bucknell University, 1903, M.S., Bucknell University, 1904, was appointed Instructor in Mathematics and Drawing; and William Hilliard Schuyler, ScB., Bucknell University, 1915, was appointed Instructor in Chemistry. Thomas Edwards had died in 1914.
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:
Frank Ernest Rockwood, Professor of the Latin Language and Dean of the
College, A.B., Brown University, 1874, A.M., Brown University, 1877, L.L.D.,
Denison University, 1900; William Cyrus Bartol, Professor of Mathematics
and Astronomy, A.B. Bucknell University, 1872, A.M., Bucknell University,
1875, Ph.D., Adrian University (Michigan), 1895; Enoch Perrine, Professor
of the English Language and Literature, and Secretary of the Faculty,
A.B., Brown University, 1874, A.M., Brown University, 1881, Litt.D., Pennsylvania
State College, 1892; Thomas Franklin Hamblin, Professor of the Greek Language
and Literature, A.B., Colgate University, 1889, A.M., Colgate University,
in course, L.L.D., Alfred University, N.Y., 1908; William Emmet Martin,
Professor of Sociology and Anthropology and College Librarian, A.B., Bucknell
University, 1871, A.M. Bucknell, 1874, L.H.D., Dickinson College, 1908;
William Gundy Owens, Professor of Chemistry, A.B., Bucknell University,
1880, A.M., Bucknell University, 1883.
Row two: Nelson Fithian Davis, Professor of Biology, Sc.B., Bucknell University, 1895, Sc.M.., Bucknell University, 1896, ScD., Bucknell University, 1903; Ephraim M. Heim, Professor of Economics and Political Science, A.B., Bucknell University, 1893, Ph.D, Bucknell University, 1901; Guido Carl Leo Riemer, Professor of Modern Languages, A.B., Bucknell University, 1895, A.M., Bucknell University, 1896, A.M. Harvard University, 1900, Ph.D., Leipzig University, 1905; Llewellyn Phillips, John P. Crozer Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, A.B., Bucknell University, 1892, A.M., Bucknell University, 1893, D.D., John B. Stetson University; Thomas Alpheus Edwards, Professor of Pedagogy and Dean of the Department for Women, A.B., Allegheny College, 1886, A.M., Allegheny College, 1889; Thomas Henry Colestock, Professor of History, A.B., Bucknell University, 1896, B.D., University of Chicago, 1899, A.M., Bucknell University, 1899, Ph.D., Bucknell University; Charles Arthur Lindemann, Professor of Applied Mathematics, A.B., Bucknell University, 1898, A.M., Bucknell University, 1899.
Row three: Frank Morton Simpson, Professor of Physics and Mechanical Drawing, B.S., Bucknell University, 1895, M.S., Cornell University, 1897; Walter Kremer Rhodes, Professor of Electro-Technics, Ph.B., Bucknell University, 1903, A.M., Bucknell University, 1906, E.E., University of Michigan, 1907; Floyd George Ballentine, Assistant Professor of Latin, A.B., Bucknell University, 1899, A.B., Harvard University, 1900, A.M., Harvard University, 1901, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1903; Frank Eugene Burpee, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, A.B., Bucknell University, 1901, A.M., Bucknell University, 1902; Martin Linnaeus Drum, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Ph.B., Bucknell University, 1902, A.M. Bucknell University; Norman Hamilton Stewart, Assistant Professor of Biology, A.B., University of Rochester, 1908, M.S., University of Michigan, 1910; Benjamin W. Griffith, Assistant Professor of French, A.B. Bucknell University, 1899, A.M., 1905.
Row four: Glenn Vinton Brown, Professor of Quantitative
and Physical Chemistry, Ph.B., Dickinson College, 1898, A.M., Dickinson
College, 1899, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1910; Charles Carpenter
Fries, Instructor in English, A.B., Bucknell University, 1909, A.M., Bucknell
University, 1911; Bromley Smith, Instructor in Rhetoric and Oratory, A.B.,
Bucknell University, 1895, A.M., Bucknell University, 1896; Walter S.
Wilcox, Registrar of the University, B.S., Bucknell University, 1904,
Sc.M., Bucknell University, 1906; Harrold Murray McClure, Ex-Judge Seventeenth
Judicial District, Lecturer on Contracts and Property, A.B., Bucknell
University, 1877, A.M., Bucknell University, 1880, Admitted to Northumberland
County Bar, 1881; Albert William Johnson, Judge Seventeenth Judicial District,
Lecturer on Real and Personal Property, A.B., Bucknell University, 1896,
A.M., Bucknell University, 1901, Admitted to Union County Bar, 1898; Cloyd
Nillis Steininger, Lecturer on Bills and Notes, Partnership and Real Property,
Attorney-at-Law, Sc.B., Bucknell University, 1903, A.M., Bucknell University,
1907, Admitted to Union County Bar, 1905.
Three faculty members are not pictured: John Howard Harris, President
and Professor of Psychology and Ethics; Martin Luther Baldwin, Instructor
in German, A.B., Bucknell, 1911, A.M., Bucknell University, 1913; and
Perry Aquila Caris, Instructor in Mathematics, A.B. Bucknell University,
1913, A.M., Bucknell University, 1914.
There had been some changes in the faculty since 1895. Freeman Loomis retired in 1900; Lincoln Hulley, Professor of History, resigned in 1905 to accept the Presidency of John B. Stetson University; Elysee Aviragnet had died in 1908 while still Director of the School of Music; and George D. Groff, Professor of Organic Science, had died in 1910. However, many faculty members from 1895 continued to teach at the university including President Harris, who was still Professor of Psychology and Ethics, and Professors Bartol, Rockwood, Owens, Perrine, Hamblin, Martin and Phillips. Thus, eight of the twenty-eight faculty members of 1915 had been faculty members in 1895.
Of the faculty members added since 1895, nineteen had received undergraduate degrees from Bucknell University, and sixteen had received master’s degrees from Bucknell. Most of the master’s degrees were “earned” rather than “in course” or honorary degrees. Eleven of these faculty members had received bachelor’s degrees from Bucknell during the decade of the 1890’s, and seven of them received undergraduate degrees in the period from 1893 to 1896.
In 1895, the faculty titles were professor, instructor and lecturer. By 1915, the title of assistant professor had been introduced. Although a number of faculty members possessed a doctorate in 1915, most of these degrees were not “earned.” Probably, only three faculty members held an earned doctorate: Riemer (Ph.D., Leipzig), Brown (Ph.D., Pennsylvania) and Ballentine (Ph.D., Harvard). The other degrees were either honorary or awarded for work done at some other institution. For example, Bucknell University conferred the Ph.D. on Ephraim Heim in 1901 “upon the basis of three years work done by him in the University of Chicago as Bucknell Fellow” and conferred the Doctor of Science degree “pro merito” on Nelson Davis in 1903.
Major changes had occurred since 1895 in science and mathematics. In 1915, the Mathematics Department was the largest department in the College. The faculty who taught courses in physics and engineering were included in this department as well as those who taught mathematics and astronomy. Fifty-eight courses were listed under mathematics, including all of the courses in engineering. Organic Sciences had become Biology, and the there were two professors in the Biology Department (Davis and Stewart) as well as two assistants, one of whom, John Winter Rice, Class of 1914, would later join the this department as a faculty member. There were two professors in the Chemistry Department (Owens and Brown). When William Schuyler, Class of 1915, was appointed an Instructor in Chemistry in 1915, the chemistry faculty increased to three for the 1915-1916 Academic Year.
Changes also had occurred in the arts and humanities. A Professor of Political Science (Heim) had been added and Professor Martin’s title had changed from Professor of Logic and Anthropology to Professor of Sociology and Anthropology. There were three members in the Department of Modern Languages (Riemer, Griffith and Baldwin) who taught courses in German (seventeen courses), French (nine courses), Spanish (two), and Italian (one course for engineers). The Department of Rhetoric and Oratory, which consisted of Professor Phillips and Instructors Smith and Fries, offered courses in composition as well as rhetoric and oratory; Professor Perrine was the only faculty member in the Department of English Language and Literature. In 1895, Perrine had been John P. Crozer Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature; in 1915, he was Professor of the English Language and Literature. In 1915, Phillips, who had been Instructor in Elocution in 1895, was John P. Crozer Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory.
Lecturers McClure, Johnson and Steininger (all Bucknell graduates) composed the Department of Law, which gave a certificate for work done “in the department”….”in addition to the Diploma of the College.” The instruction was “…. by text-book, lecture, and the study of cases.” These three faculty members taught law courses in agency, bills and notes, contracts, partnership, personal property and real property. In addition, College faculty members taught courses in the Department of Law: Professor Colestock (Elementary Law, Blackstone’s Commentaries, and American Civics), Professor Heim (Principles of International Law, Constitutional Limitations, and Comparative and Constitutional Law), Professor Rockwood (Roman Law), and Professor Hamblin (American Constitutional Law).