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Howard Lincoln Hodgkins

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Hodgkins' job was to keep the living alumni interested in the school. He created various activities and outings for alumni to participate in, in support of the University, and in 1892 Hodgkins prepared a historical catalogue of the University that covered the George Washington University's first seventy years. Hodgkins served the Alumni Association for more than twenty-five years.
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Hodgkins served George Washington University's Columbian College for more than forty-eight years. Over the course of this time he served the University as a tutor (in 1883), an assistant professor (in 1884), a professor of physics (beginning in 1887), Dean of the Scientific School (from 1898 until
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On February 28, 1887, the George Washington University's Alumni Association underwent some major construction. Upon its reorganization, Howard Lincoln Hodgkins, better known as Dean Hodgkins, became the Secretary of the Alumni Association. As the only permanent officer of the Alumni Association,
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In addition to all his work at the George Washington University, Howard Lincoln Hodgkins was involved in a number of “extracurricular activities. He was initiated into the DC Alpha chapter of
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in the fall of 1878. Upon his graduation in the class of 1883, Howard Lincoln Hodgkins received a number of successful degrees including a
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1903), Dean of the University (in 1901 and 1903), Dean of the College of Engineering (beginning in 1905) and President (in 1921).
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on campus which is still present today. He worked with the Washington Society of Engineers, served as a fellow of the
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Special Collections Research Center, Melvin Gelman Library, George Washington University
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in addition to serving as the special computer of the National Almanac Office of the
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Hodgkins died on February 13, 1931, in Washington DC at age 69.
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
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