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Professor Sabine, who died yesterday at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital after a surgical operation, came to Harvard as a graduate student in 1887. His exceptional ability was immediately recognized by Professor John Trowbridge, who soon took him as an associate in research, and not long afterward enlisted him as a teacher in one of our laboratory courses...
Professor Wallace Clement Sabine A.M. '88, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy and Director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, died yesterday morning at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Brookline, following an operation which he underwent on Monday, and from which he failed to rally. Professor Sabine was born in Richwood, Ohio, June 13, 1868. He obtained the degree of A.B. at Ohio State University in 1886, and the degree of A.M. at Harvard in 1888. In 1889 he became an assistant in physics in the University, in 1890 an instructor, in 1895 an assistant professor...
Harvard leaves a wife and a young son, Peter. His younger brother, Kenneth, was killed in the British advance near Ypres last August...
Four more members of the Faculty have been granted leave of absence for war work by the University Corporation at its meeting this week. Dr. Elmer Peter Kohler, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, who left for Washington for war research work on the first of this month, has been granted an extended leave of absence to enable him to continue his services there for an indefinite period. He is stationed at the American Experiment Station of the Bureau of Mines as assistant to the Director in charge of research problems...
...Elmer Peter Kohler, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, left the University last night for Washington, D. C., where he will be engaged in work for the Government. He will be stationed at the American Eperiment Station of the Bureau of Mines, in Washington, as "Assistant to the Director in Charge of Research Problems." The University Field Laboratory--a branch of the Bureau--of which Professor Kohler is head, has also been transferred. For the past few months he has been working in Cambridge with these men on problems arising from...