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5, Idaho, and Minnesota, on the Denver and K Rio Grande, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, and Northern Pacific Railroads, and since that time has extended his engineering- experience in various other directions. In September,'85, he was appointed assistant professor of Engineering and

Mathematics in the University, and in H) was madeProfessor of Municipal and Sanitary Engineering, in charge of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He is a contributor to engineering literature, and is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Western Society of Engineers.

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Brtbur M- palmerArthur William Palmer, Sc. D., Professor of Chemistry, was born in London, England, in 1801, and came to Illinois with his parents in 1866. He attended the public schools of Elgin and Springfield. In '83 he graduated from the Chemical Course of this University, and the following year he was first assistant in Chemistry. Two years were spent at Harvard taking postgraduate work in Chemistry. From the fall of '86 to the spring of '88 he was chief assistant in Chemistry here, and the next year w a s spent in Germany at the Universities of Berlin and Gottingen. He returned here in '89 as assistant professor of Chemistry, in charge of the departu in t of Chemistry. In )0 he was given his present title.

IT- If- jfrcberichFrank Forrest Frederick, Professor of Art and Design, was born in Methuen, Mass., in 1866. The greater part of his education was obtained in Boston, where he graduated from the Massachusetts Normal Art School. He was a teacher in the free evening Industrial Art School of Boston, and in September, '90, was appointed to his

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position here. He completed his studies abroad, where he made a special study of the organization and management of art schools. H e is editor of the educational department of " T h e A r t . " He is also a contributor to various art magazines, and is the author of a book on "Architectural Rendering in Sepia."