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Professor Bouton was preeminently a teacher. Whether he were engaged in steering a Freshman section through the rocks and shoals that beset the approach to analytic geometry, or in guiding a graduate student in his research, he had an unerring instinct for picking out what was essential and vital, to the exclusion of the trivial and unimportant. His mathematical judgment was unerring, his advice on scientific questions was absolutely sound. No pains were too great to be expended on any student, his pupils had always the first claim to his time, and no one who applied...
Charles Leonard Bouton '96, Professor of Mathematics at the University since 1898, died Monday at his home, 9 Avon St. His death came as the result of an illness lasting several months, due to nervous affection of the spine...
Professor Bouton was born in St. Louis on April 25, 1869, and he graduated from Washington University in 1891. He spent the years 1894-96 at Harvard as a graduate student of mathematics. In 1898 he went abroad on a Parker Fellowship and studied with Sophus Lie in Leipzig, taking the degree of Ph.D. in 1898. He returned to Cambridge the same year and took up his work on the staff of the Mathematics department continuing in this position until a few months before his death...
Shortly after his return he was obliged to submit to an emergency operation for appendicitis an occasion which raced his strength to the utmost, the traces remaining with him so that he never again had that complete measure of strength and endurance which had been his before Professor Bouton was one of the editors of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society...
...23Kirk to Weaver (inclusive), Sever 24Hist. of Science, Emerson FItalian 1, Harvard 3Mathematics A:Mr. Brown's section 1, Sever 17Dr. Morse's section 2, Sever 17Professor Coolidge's section 3:Anderson to Spero (inclusive), Sever 5Stone to Treaner (inclusive), Sever 6Mr. Rupp's section, Sever 6Mathematics C:Professor Bouton's section 2a:Bancroft to Linn (inclusive), Sever 35Merrill to Young (inclusive), Sever 36Dr. Barnett's section 2b, Sever 36Mathematics 2b II, Pierce 202Mathematics 13, Sever 30Music 4:Abbott to Newell (inclusive), Pierian RoomOrr to Young (inclusive), Glee Club RoomPalaeontology 1, HoldenPhilosophy 18, Emerson DPhysics 2b, Sever 18Romance Philol...