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Julian Coolidge
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Our New York Correspondent reports the death at Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 80, of Dr. Julian Lowell Coolidge, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University.
He was born at Brookline, Massachusetts, on September 28, 1873, and was educated at Harvard. From 1897 to 1899, he was a teacher of mathematics at Groton School, and in 1900, he was appointed an instructor in mathematics at Harvard. In 1908, he was appointed to an assistant professorship, and in 1918, he became a professor, a post he held until 1940, when he retired. In addition to being a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was a member and a former vice-president of the American Mathematical Society. He had been president of the Association of Mathematics Teachers in New England, and in 1925, he was elected president of the Mathematical Association of America.
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H. K. N. and P. B. W., write:
Julian Lowell Coolidge, whose death was recently reported in The Times, came up to Balliol from Harvard in 1895 and made many friends during his two years there. He had a unique and loyal personality and a good sense of humour. He was a robust and enthusiastic oarsman and, in the Torpids, had the pleasure of helping to make 12 bumps for the college in two successive years. In 1918 he came over here with the American Army, in which he served as a major: he commanded the school detachment of the American Expeditionary Force in Paris and was awarded the Legion of Honour.
After the war, he returned to his professorial duties at Harvard and was made Master of Lowell House in 1929, a post he held with distinction until his retirement in 1940. His time at Oxford was before the days of Rhodes Scholarships; but he and Roger Merriman (Master in his day of Eliot House at Harvard), who came up to Balliol soon after him, both contributed fully to the pleasant college life of those days, both absorbed much of its spirit, and both returned to Harvard to become, in due time, heads of houses there, a happy instance, surely, of international interchange
Our New York Correspondent reports the death at Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 80, of Dr. Julian Lowell Coolidge, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University.
He was born at Brookline, Massachusetts, on September 28, 1873, and was educated at Harvard. From 1897 to 1899, he was a teacher of mathematics at Groton School, and in 1900, he was appointed an instructor in mathematics at Harvard. In 1908, he was appointed to an assistant professorship, and in 1918, he became a professor, a post he held until 1940, when he retired. In addition to being a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was a member and a former vice-president of the American Mathematical Society. He had been president of the Association of Mathematics Teachers in New England, and in 1925, he was elected president of the Mathematical Association of America.
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H. K. N. and P. B. W., write:
Julian Lowell Coolidge, whose death was recently reported in The Times, came up to Balliol from Harvard in 1895 and made many friends during his two years there. He had a unique and loyal personality and a good sense of humour. He was a robust and enthusiastic oarsman and, in the Torpids, had the pleasure of helping to make 12 bumps for the college in two successive years. In 1918 he came over here with the American Army, in which he served as a major: he commanded the school detachment of the American Expeditionary Force in Paris and was awarded the Legion of Honour.
After the war, he returned to his professorial duties at Harvard and was made Master of Lowell House in 1929, a post he held with distinction until his retirement in 1940. His time at Oxford was before the days of Rhodes Scholarships; but he and Roger Merriman (Master in his day of Eliot House at Harvard), who came up to Balliol soon after him, both contributed fully to the pleasant college life of those days, both absorbed much of its spirit, and both returned to Harvard to become, in due time, heads of houses there, a happy instance, surely, of international interchange
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