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Stevens (JAMES STACY an American)

JAMES STACY, an American educator, born in Lima, N. Y., in 1864. He was educated at the University of Rochester and at Syracuse University. From 1885 to 1891 he was instructor of science at Cook Academy, Montour Falls, N. Y. In 1891 he became professor of physics at the University of Maine; in 1915, dean of its College of Arts and Sciences; and from 1917 to 1919, acting head of its department of English. He was a member of several American and foreign scientific societies.

Besides frequent contributions to scientific, educational, and literary periodicals, he wrote "Outlines of General Physics" (1900); "Outlines of Laboratory Physics" (1901); "Theory of Measurements" (1915); "A Dramatization of Job" (1917); and "Corollaries of Infinity" (1919).