Encyclopedia Brunoniana

1865

  • Arnold Laboratory was built in 1915 at a cost of $80,000 furnished by the bequest of Dr. Oliver H. Arnold 1865.Arnold Laboratory
  • William Whitman Bailey was assistant in chemistry at Brown in 1865 and at M.I.T. in 1866.Bailey, William Whitman
  • The Class of 1865 team as freshmen captured the championship of Providence by defeating the Dexters and was challenged by the freshman team of Harvard.Baseball
  • The physiology course was taught from 1863 to 1865 by Nathaniel P. Hill, who continued to deliver the lectures prepared by Chace.Biology
  • In 1865 Dr. Parsons began teaching the course, apparently by some informal arrangement at first, as he was formally appointed "Lecturer in Physiology" only in 1867, when Chace became acting president.Biology
  • In December 1865 the open Greek letter society Gamma Nu and other non-society students published the "Caduceus," a paper similar to the "Brown Paper."Brown Paper
  • It was first published in December 1865 as an alternative to the "Brown Paper," which was the annual publication of the secret societies.Caduceus
  • George Ide Chace became professor of chemistry and physiology in 1859, professor of geology and physical geography in 1864, and professor of chemistry and geology in 1865.Chace, George Ide
  • The first to hold this professorship was John Howard Appleton 1863, who was the founder and moving spirit of modern chemistry at Brown from 1865 until his retirement in 1914.Chemistry
  • In 1865 Gamma Nu published the first issue of the "Caduceus" as an alternative to the "Brown Paper," which was the organ of the secret societies.Fraternities
  • In March 1865 John Hay was appointed secretary to the American legation in Paris, where he remained until 1867.Hay, John
  • Alexander Lyman Holley was able to make improvements in Henry Bessemer’s steel-making process developed several years earlier, and in 1865 was successfully producing steel in Troy, New York.Holley, Alexander Lyman
  • In 1865 Bartlett prepared an edition of fifty copies of the first part of "A Catalogue of Books relating to North and South America in the Library of John Carter Brown, of Providence, R.I.," which included selected titles of works printed between 1493 and 1600.John Carter Brown Library
  • Lyman Hall was formerly Lyman Gymnasium, named for Daniel W. Lyman 1865, who bequeathed the University $50,000 in 1887 for a building which was to be named for him.Lyman Hall
  • After serving as assistant surgeon of the First Maine Veteran Volunteers during the Civil War, Alpheus S. Packard became librarian and custodian of the Boston Society of Natural History in 1865 and curator of the Essex Institute in 1866.Packard, Alpheus S.
  • After the resignation of Nathaniel P. Hill in 1865, Parsons taught the physiology course at Brown on a temporary basis until 1867, when he was appointed lecturer in physiology.Parsons, Charles W.
  • The "Brown Paper" includes in November 1864 and again in November 1865 a society called "Pi Kappa Fraternitas," with a list of members whose names are decidedly fictitious.Pi Kappa
  • The Bishop Seabury Association was founded in May 1865.Religious Societies
  • Lorenzo Sears was ordained a priest of the Episcopal Church in 1865, and served as pastor in churches in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire, until 1885, when he gave up the ministry and became professor of rhetoric and English literature at the University of Vermont.Sears, Lorenzo
  • His situation at that time is summed up in his letter of February 8, 1865, to Abraham Lincoln, seeking support in his application for employment: Ward died on April 18, 1913 in Washington.Ward, Lester F.
  • Francis Wayland (1796-1865), fourth president of Brown University, was born in New York City on March 11, 1796.Wayland, Francis
  • When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 15, 1865, Wayland declined an invitation to attend and address a public meeting in the evening, whereupon it was decided that the citizens should come to his house.Wayland, Francis
  • This was the last time Francis Wayland addressed his fellow-citizens, as he died on September 30, 1865.Wayland, Francis
  • Alonzo Williams took part in the sieges of Fort Pulaski, Savannah, and Charleston, and in General Sherman’s March to the Sea, and was promoted to Second Lieutenant by the time he was mustered out in August of 1865.Williams, Alonzo
  • The architects tried, but in vain, to incorporate the Powel House, a Victorian mansion at the corner of George and Brown Streets built in 1865 by Thomas Poynton Ives Goddard 1846 into the plan.Wriston Quadrangle