Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-14

it isn't only in the student body, but
in the teaching body as well that Tex
as can claim representation in that
institution. It isn't only New Eng
land that furnishes the professors ter
the university at Cambridge; they
come from every part Of the United
States and the civilized world, and
make up body of men that is per
haps the most cosmopolitan of any I'M
ivcrsity faculty in Europe and Amer
ca. President Eliot's policy was to 60
after the expert wherever he might
be found, and as a result he drew men
from everywhere.
The contributions that Texas made
to this teaching force are in the nath-
ematics and science schools.
There is George Washington Pierce.
assistant professor in physics in Har-
ward and one of the electrical eX-
perts IN the jefferson physical labor
atory. His home address was form
erly Austin, Texas. He went to the
University of Texas and after his
graduation was fellow in physics there.
Then he was instructor in science at
the Dallas high school. He decided
that he wanted more training in his
chosen science, and left the high
school work to become graduate
student in Harvard. 1t was hard
pull for him-he had but Sc when ne
landed in Cambridge-but his math-
ematical knowledge stood him in good
stead and soon he was making money
tutoring undergraduates who were
backward in mathematics He took
graduate degree in Harvard and
found himself right at once IN the
teaching force first as an instructor
and then as assistant professor. Presi-
dent Eliot has said of this Texan.
Professor Pierce is a world authority
on wireless biography"
Professor William Morton Wheeler
was at the head of the school of zoo
logy in the University of Texas about
eight Years ago He was not a Texan
and not product of that university,
but his distinguished service in Aus
tin linked him closely with the course
of scientific work in Texas and made
him recognized as one Of the uniyer-
| sity's leading lights His fame spread
to New York among other places. and
soon the Museum Of Natural History
in New York got him away from Tex
as anu made him one of its curators'
Now DR. Wheeler is in Harvard, pro-
fessor Of economic chronology in the
department of zoology.
Another former Texas man is work
ing with him in the person Of c. T.
Brues. who graduated in Austin IN
1901. Brues went to the University OF
Chicago and studied there for his doc
! tor Gf philosophy degree. Later lie
came to Harvard and is now an M
structor in entomology. With Pro-
| fessof Wheeler he has completed a
very thorough investigation into the
habits Of ants and published mono
graph on the study.
t. J. Dohmen is an intellectual
prodigy. He has been totally blind
from infancy. and yet he graduated
| in the University Of Texas with high
est honors Gin 1857 and has since pur-
sued his studies in mathematics and
philosophy to the doctors degree. He
studied in Germany, and then returned
| TO the University of Texas as a lectur-
er in mathematics. Three years age
he was added to the Harvard teaching
force and is now instructor in mathe-
mates. His father was an eminent
oculist in Austin.
Lawrence j. Rhea Was instructor II
pathology in the Harvard Medical