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took the chair of natural philosophy in the

took the chair of natural philosophy in the | university of New York, and remained | there until 1860. His labors in astronomy and natural philosophy before this time had been extensive. He carried on for IA months in 1844 45 a series of observations of the declination of the needle during @ daily period of IA or 15 hours While at the university of New York he prepared his series of mathematical text books, which have been used all over the country, and have attained a circulation of over 500, ,000 copies. Loomis' treatise on astronomy has been adopted in England his analytical geometry and calculus have been translat- ed into Chinese, and his meteorology into Arabic. He accepted the chair of natural philosophy and astronomy at Yale in 1860, and held the position until his death. A large part of this period has been devoted to original research and the writing of sci entific articles. His principal works in- clude "Plane and Spherical Trignometry, Progress of Astronomy. Analytical Geometry and Calculus, and Elements of Algebra, ""Tables and Logarithms, "'.Nat- ural Philosophy" Practical Astronomy" and sElements of Astronomy"
 The Hartford Courant says Those who have been students at Yale since 1860 have a very vivid recollection of the spare, aus- tere, reserved, solitary man who was ter TOT to most of them ill the class room from term to term, to whom they felt that the mathematical problems that wrought their confusion were trifles worth no second thought, whom no one of them knew so- cially, and whom indeed few wanted to know. It was not that he was unkind or harsh. They merely felt that he dwelt in a region wholly apart, one of figures and l ]nrvp aud r7nG If far-sweeping comets, elemental forces among which he sought fer the rule and order If their development, region as wholly aside from. the ordinary life of men, especially young men, as could be imagin- ed. They respected his learning and his trained brain, but they were content to have as little as possible to say to him in the recitation room or elsewhere. His de- light was original research {; probably the great drawback to his life was the daily need of hearing the rudiments of the high CT mathematics gone over again and again by class. On the other hand he was not slow to recognize mathematical ability in his pupils. His dryness was less dry, and sort of content rested on him when he saw good work being done. It was plain enough for those with an eye to see, though it was not pronounced. There was no af- IecIatlpu UT uumpuBBery. LVeu tuOSe WHO had suffered most before him usually found at the end that they went away with an uneeigned respect and something approach ing liking for the man with whom they had probably never exchanged twenty words outside the class room.
 The plans for the new dormitory at the Storrs agricultural school at Mansfield are finally accepted. Work will begin on it at once, and the building will be ready for the crush of students at the winter term
 The fall term opens in September, and the incoming class promises to be the largest on record. The school furnishes just the education demanded by so many young
 men on Connecticut farms. The force oi
 teachers is to be enlarged, and with the
 Hatch experiment. station at the same place,
 the school will be more attractive to boys
 and more helpful to them than ever before
 Principal Rooms has made success of his
 system of agricultural education.-N 2. | Homestead
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