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years as head of the department of Modern Languages, to become head of
the German department at Williams. Mr. Spaulding served temporarily as
head of the department, assisted for three years by R. M. S. Heffner,
and after 1915 by Richard C. Joslin, a graduate of Dartmouth and
Harvard. Francis J. Adams returned to the Electrical Engineering staff
in 1915, after a two-year leave of absence. That year Walter
D. Stearns took a similar leave, but resigned at the end of that
period. Dr. James A. Bullard resigned in 1916, after eight years as
instructor in Mathematics, to take a similar post at the U. S. Naval
Academy.
After the resignation of J. K. Marshall the Institute was without the
services of an official registrar for several years. Miss Josephine
Frost was appointed to this office in 1916. Miss Frost, a graduate of
Radcliffe who had taken secretarial courses at Simmons, had spent the
two previous years as an assistant in the Institute offices. Miss
Martha E. Strong, bookkeeper and later assistant bursar, began her
work at the Institute in 1915.
The man selected to be head of the new department of Physical
Education was Percy R. Carpenter. A graduate of Harvard, he had spent
the succeeding years at Amherst College in the department of Hygiene
and Physical Education, and for the last five years had been associate
professor. His work with gymnastic teams, physical examinations, and
as a football official had given him excellent preparation for the
service that the Institute needed. As his assistant he chose Frank
C. Brough, Amherst, '14, versatile athlete and instructor.
Another addition to the Institute staff during this period was Fred
Margerum, appointed electrician in 1915, and destined to become well
known to all students three years later. Word reached the Institute
that year that one of its earlier instructors, Frank A. Sherman,
professor emeritus of Dartmouth, had died at the age of
seventy-three. Another death at about the same date was that of
Mrs. Homer T. Fuller. Mrs. Thomas C. Mendenhall died in November, 1916
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