Prof. Adams Dies
DR. WARREN A. ADAMS, Emeritus Professor of German, died in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Thursday, August 24. The Professor, who was 82 years old, had served on the Dartmouth faculty in the German Department for 32 years before his retirement in 1931.
Professor Adams was born in Skaneateles, N. Y., on September 14, 1861 and graduated from Yale in 1886. After completing post-graduate studies at the Universities of Berlin and Munich, he taught German at Montclair Military Academy for two years and in 1891 began his college teaching career at Cornell. In 1893 he went to Yale as instructor and received his Ph.D. degree there in 1895. He came to Dartmouth in 1899 as assistant professor and five years later was appointed to the full professorship from which he retired with emeritus rank 27 years later. An honorary faculty Master's degree was awarded him by Dartmouth in 1908. Professor Adams was an authority on Goethe and the editor of several German texts.
He is survived by his second wife, the former Mrs. Mary P. Billings of Woodstock, Vt.; a son, Austin, who resides in Connecticut; and by two brothers.
