January 6, 1922] 



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Yale '32, Congi-egational minister, and Sarah 

 Hay ward (Torrey) Eddy, a graduate and 

 teacher of mathematics at Mt. Holyoke Sem- 

 inary. 



Dr. Eddy graduated from Yale A.B. '67, 

 Ph.B. '68, A.M. '70, Hon. Sc.D. 1912; Cornell, 

 C.E. '70, Ph.D. '72; and Centre College (Ky.) 

 LL.D. He also studied at the University of 

 Berlin and at the Sorbonne, Paris. He was 

 instructor in Latin and mathematics at the 

 University of Tennessee, 1868-9; assistant pro- 

 fessor of mathematics and civil engineering, 

 Cornell, 1869-73; adjutor professor mathe- 

 matics, Princeton, 1873-4; professor of mathe- 

 m.atics and astronomy and civil engineering, 

 1874-90, and dean of the academic faculty, 

 1874-7, at the University of Cincinnati, and 

 was its president-elect in 1890. The following 

 year he went to Rose Polytechnic Institute, 

 Terre Haute, Indiana, as its president and 

 remained there until 1894, when he resigned 

 and went to the University of Minnesota as 

 professor of engineering and mechanics, in the 

 College of Engineering. In 1906 he was 

 elected dean of the Graduate School, which 

 position he held until his retirement from 

 university work in 1912 as professor and dean 

 emeritus. 



After his retirement from teaching at 68 

 years of age, Dr. Eddy formed an association 

 with Mr. C. A. P. Turner, consulting engineer, 

 of Minneapolis, and spent several happy years 

 in mathematical researches concerning the 

 properties and stresses in reinforced concrete 

 floor slabs, the results of which he published in 

 collaboration with Mr. Turner. Dr. Eddy was 

 one of the first to take up the subject of 

 graphical statics and in 1878 he published his 

 well-known "Researches in Graphical Statics" ; 

 this was followed in 1879 by a treatise on 

 "Thermodynamics"; previously to this he had 

 published a mathematical text on "Analytical 

 Geometry." 



Dr. Eddy was a member of numerous scien- 

 tific societies of varied interest, including the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, of which he was one of the vice- 

 presidents in 1884; the American Philosophical 

 Society, the American Mathematical Society, 

 the American Physical Society, and the Soci- 



ety for the Promotion of Engineering Educa- 

 tion, of which he was an honored past presi- 

 dent. He was a man of versatile attainments, 

 as shown by his many valuable contributions 

 to the various societies to which he belonged. 



Dr. Eddy was a man of quiet, scholarly 

 tastes, genial in his intercourse and always an 

 inspiration to his associates. He was married 

 in 1870 to Sebella Elizabeth Taylor, of New 

 Haven, Conn., who died on September 5, 1921, 

 only three months prior to the death of her 

 husband. The surviving children are : Horace 

 T. Eddy, Omaha; Mrs. Charles F. Keyes, 

 Minneapolis; Mrs. Clive Hastings, Atchison, 

 Kan.; Mrs. Charles H. Patek, Minneapolis, 

 and Mrs. J. B. Frear, Buffalo, N. Y. 



The faculty of the Graduate School of the 

 University of Minnesota has placed on its 

 records the following tribute : 



Henry Turner Eddy, Ph.D., LL.D., died on 

 December 11, 1921, at the age of 77 years. In 

 his death the faculty of the University has lost 

 one of its most eminent and honored members. 



As professor of mathematics and meehanies 

 from 1894 to 1905, as the first dean of the Gradu- 

 ate School from 1906 to 1912, and as professor 

 emeritus since 1912, Dr. Eddy was a distinguished 

 associate whom the faculty was proud to own as 

 a colleague. His ability as a mathematician won 

 him an international reputation and his high 

 general scholarship and Christian character en- 

 deared liim to all witli whom he came in contact. 

 He was an educator of the highest type, an 

 inspiration to his students and intimate associates, 

 and a wise, sympathetic counsellor in the faculty 

 conferences. 



This faculty would express its lieartfelt sym- 

 pathy with the family, in the faith that God has 

 given the departed a rich reward ; and the assur- 

 ance that it cherishes the memory of a noble life 

 that has left a precious and imperishable 

 heritage. TIF 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



THE STERLING HALL OF MEDICINE OF 

 YALE UNIVERSITY 



The Yale Corporation and the Sterling 

 Trustees will appropriate from the Sterling 

 funds the amount of $1,320,000 for the erec- 

 tion of a new and modern building to be known 

 as the Sterling Hall of Medicine. With this 



