'83_m_, Professor of Anatomy, and
Herbert S. Jennings, '93, Professor of Biology. At Cornell, Jeremiah W.
Jenks, '78, was for many years Professor of Social Science and Economics
and now holds a research professorship in New York University. L.M.
Dennis, '85, is also Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Cornell.
As is natural, many Michigan teachers are to be found in practically all
the Western universities, although only a few can be mentioned. Thus at
Chicago are Andrew C. McLaughlin, '82, Professor of American History,
James R. Angell, '90, who was Professor of Psychology and Dean of the
Graduate School until he became President of the Carnegie Foundation in
1920; and at Wisconsin, J.B. Johnson, '78, who was, until his death in
1902, Dean of the Engineering College, and George C. Comstock, '77,
Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Observatory; while at
Minnesota Edward VanDyke Robinson, '90, is Professor of Economics, and
John B. Johnston, '93, Professor of Comparative Neurology and Dean of
the College, and for a short period the late John R. Allen, '92_e_,
formerly at Michigan, was Dean of the Engineering Department. At Ohio
State University may be mentioned Stillman W. Robinson, '63, Professor
of Mechanical Engineering until 1910, George W. Knight, '78, Professor
of American History, and Joseph V. Denney, '85, Professor of English,
and Dean of the College of Arts; and, at Nebraska, Herbert H. Vaughan,
'03, Professor of Modern Languages. One of the oldest of Michigan's
educators is Professor William J. Beal, '59, Professor of Botany at
Michigan Agricultural College from 1871 to 1910.
On the Western coast, Alexander F. Lange, '85, Professor of German at
the University of California, and Dean of the Faculties, has also served
as Acting-President; while other representatives of Michigan are Charles
M. Gayley, '78, Professor of English, Bernard Moses, '70, Professor of
History and Political Science, and Armin O. Leuschner, '88, Professor of
Astronomy. At Stanford are George Hempl, '79, Professor of Germanic
Philology, Ephraim D. Adams, '87, Professor of History, and Douglas
Campbell, '82, Professor of Botany.
Among Michigan graduates in foreign universities may be mentioned the
names of Stephen Langdon, '98, Professor of Assyriology at Oxford, the
late Alfred Senier, '74_m_, Professor of Chemistry at the National
University of Ireland at Galway, and Masakozu Toyama, '73-'76, Dean of
the College of Literature
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