Encyclopedia Brunoniana

1804

  • The Annmary Brown Memorial at 21 Brown Street was built in 1907 by Rush Christopher Hawkins as a memorial to his wife, who was the daughter of Nicholas Brown 1811 and the granddaughter of Nicholas Brown 1786, whose name the University adopted in 1804, and sister of Carrie Brown Bajnotti, whose memorial is Carrie Tower.Annmary Brown Memorial
  • Elisha Bartlett (1804-1855), "Brown’s most eminent medical graduate" according to William Osler, was born in Smithfield in 1804.Bartlett, Elisha
  • A number of the Brown family attended the University, among them Nicholas Brown 1786, for whom the college was named in 1804, and his brother, Moses Brown 1790, who died in 1791.Brown family
  • Asa Messer was professor of learned languages from 1790 to 1796 before he became president, and presumably continued in that capacity until Calvin Park was named to that professorship in 1804.Classics
  • John Reeves, an Englishman, was a provider of fruit and confections on the campus, who came to Providence as a boy around 1804, and after a life of many vicissitudes on sailing ships and adventures as a servant in China, came back to Providence in the late 1850s.College servants
  • In 1804 Commencement was held in the First Congregational Church to accommodate the seniors who wished to "have the benifit (sic) of the Organ."Commencement
  • The program for the sophomore-junior exhibition on August 22, 1804 announced the performance of a one-act comedy for four actors, "The Miser Outwitted."Dramatics
  • Years later, in 1931, the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays acquired a copy of a play entitled "The Miser" by Samuel Randall of the class of 1804.Dramatics
  • When Nicholas Brown contributed the $5,000 which changed the name of the College in 1804, he specified that the money should be used to establish a Professorship of Oratory and Belles Letters (sic), a hope which his uncle John Brown had expressed in a letter the previous year.English
  • A professor of learned languages, Calvin Park, was engaged in 1804.Faculty
  • In 1815, Tristam Burges was appointed to fill the first endowed professorship, that of Oratory and Belles Lettres, established by Nicholas Brown 1786 in 1804.Faculty
  • Since 1776 all Commencements have been held there, except for those of 1804 and 1832.First Baptist Church
  • The first honorary Doctor of Medicine degree was conferred upon Solomon Drowne in 1804.Honorary degrees
  • He was also awarded the first medical degree from Brown University, an honorary doctor of medicine in 1804.Medical education
  • In 1802 Asa Messer succeeded Jonathan Maxcy as president "pro tempore" for two years before being named president in 1804.Messer, Asa
  • The Name, Brown University, was adopted in 1804.Name
  • On September 6, 1804, Nicholas Brown 1786 donated $5,000 for the establishment of a "Professorship of Oratory & Belles Letters (sic)," and the Corporation voted, "That this College be called and known in all future time by the Name of Brown University in Providence in the State of Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations."Name
  • Calvin Park was a tutor at the College from 1800 to 1804, librarian from 1800 to 1806, professor of learned languages from 1804 to 1811 and of moral philosophy and metaphysics from 1811 to 1825.Park, Calvin
  • The "Brunonian" of February 12, 1878 included this description of the new Library Building: The four inscriptions were, first, the commemoration of the donor John Carter Brown, noting in Latin his dates of birth and death and his bequest of the building; second, the dates of the beginning and completion of the building; third, that the University was founded in 1764 and received its name in 1804 from Nicholas Brown; and fourth, an extract form the Book of Proverbs.Robinson Hall
  • He was to be the one to establish the Professorship of Oratory and Belles Letters in 1804 with his contribution of $5000.Treasurer