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Funeral services will be held today for William Caspar Graustein '10, professor of Mathematics, who was killed in an automobile accident in Belmont Wednesday afternoon...
Internationally known as a mathematician and recognized as one of three foremost differential geometers in the country, Professor Graustein was also Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Chairman of the Board of Tutors in the Department of Mathematics...
...teacher, however, that he was best known by undergraduates. For his brilliant instruction in Mathematics A and 3, he was deeply admired by his students, try, Professor Graustein was a member...
...Harvard flag is flying at half mast today, but the whole University mourns the death of William C. Graustein. No member of the faculty was more admired or beloved. As a professor and adviser he endeared himself to undergraduates, and as an authority on differential geometry he was internationally respected...
Professor Graustein had been associated with Harvard off and on for thirty years, graduating cum laude with the class of 1910. He completed his studies at the University of Bonn in Germany and returned to Harvard as an instructor some five years later. Except for several years spent at the Rice Institute as an assistant professor of mathematics, and two years spent at the Aberdeen proving ground where he helped to compile range tables for anti-aircraft guns, Professor Graustein has been teaching at Harvard. When he died he was a full professor, chairman of the Board of Tutors...