Dr. Hollis was selected to convey the greetings of American engineers
to the British Institute of Civil Engineers, and later to the
engineers of France, both of which assignments he carried out in
scholarly and convincing fashion. He also made his influence felt in
the field of engineering education, though at times he was widely at
variance with his colleagues on the faculty. In March, 1921, he was
influential in bringing to the Institute a large group of engineering
educators, who organized at that meeting the New England section,
Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education.
Increased income made possible an addition to the salary budget of
about ten per cent in 1919-20, and of about thirty per cent in
1920-21, but it did not provide for an expansion of the regular
instruction staff. The need in this direction was temporarily met by
the appointment of numerous graduate assistants and student
assistants, a makeshift that the faculty deplored. Two members were
added to the faculty in 1920: Harris Rice, '12, with five years'
teaching experience at Tufts and Harvard, as assistant professor of
Mathematics; Herbert F. Taylor, '12, with eight years' experience in
railway, military, and sanitary engineering, as assistant professor of
Civil Engineering. Carl D. Knight was promoted to a full professorship
in Electrical Engineering. In June, 1921, Dr. Raymond K. Morley was
elected Sinclair professor of Mathematics, an honor fully merited
because of his mathematical and teaching abilities. Dr. Lester
B. Struthers came from the University of Indiana to succeed Professor
Joslin as head of the Modern Language department.
Herbert S. Busey, instructor in mechanical drawing since 1912,
resigned in 1920 to become draftsman in a Worcester industry. Charles
B. Hurd, '15, graduate assistant and instructor in Chemistry since
1915, left to do graduate work for his doctor's degree at Clark
University. Wayland M. Burgess from Rhode Island State became an
instructor in Chemistry, and William L. Phinney from Dartmouth, an
instructor in Mathematics, both in 1920.
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