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1878

  • Gabriel N. Grisham 1878, who entered in 1874 and left college during his sophomore year, received his bachelor’s degree by special vote in 1900, after he had taught mathematics and astronomy at Lincoln Institute in Missouri and had become principal of Lincoln High School in Kansas City.African Americans
  • The American Philosophical Society has numbered among its members the following individuals connected with Brown, elected to membership in the years indicated: Stephen Hopkins in 1769; Benjamin Waterhouse in 1791; Francis Wayland in 1838; John E. Holbrook 1815 in 1839; Alpheus S. Packard in 1878; George Dana Boardman 1852 in 1880; Henry S. Frieze 1841 in 1884; William Williams Keen 1859 in 1884; James Macalister 1856 in 1886; James Burrill Angell 1849 in 1889; Lester Frank Ward in 1889; Richard Olney 1856 in 1897; Stephen F. Peckham 1862 in 1897; John Hay 1858 in 1898; Robert H. Thurston 1859 in 1902; Carl Barus in 1903; Hermon Carey Bumpus 1884 in 1909; Charles E. Bennett 1878 in 1913; Winthrop John Vanleuven Osterhout 1893 in 1917; John Franklin Jameson in 1920; Charles Evans Hughes 1881 in 1926; Arthur F. Buddington ’12 in 1931; John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 1897 in 1931; Ernest E. Tyzzer 1897 in 1931; Gilbert Chinard in 1932; George E. Coghill 1896 in 1935; Harvey N. Davis ’01 in 1935; George Grafton Wilson 1886 in 1936; Frederick G. Keyes ’09 Ph.D. in 1938; Charles August Kraus in 1939; Walter S. Hunter in 1941; Leonard Carmichael in 1942; Zechariah Chafee ’07 in 1946; Robert Cushman Murphy ’11 in 1946; Otto E. Neugebauer in 1947; William A. Noyes in 1947; George Boas ’13 in 1950; Carl Bridenbaugh in 1950; Clarence Saunders Brigham 1899 in 1955; Clarence H. Graham in 1956; John Imbrie in 1956; Lars Onsager in 1959; John Wilder Tukey ’36 in 1962; Edmund Sears Morgan in 1964; Carl Pfaffmann ’33 in 1964; Vartan Gregorian in 1965; Barnaby C. Keeney in 1965; Donald F. Hornig in 1967; Floyd Ratliff ’50 Ph.D. in 1972; Leon N. Cooper in 1973; David E. Pingree in 1975; George F. Carrier in 1976; Eliot Stellar ’47 Ph.D. in 1977; Brooke Hindle ’40 in 1982; Thomas J. Watson, Jr. ’37 in 1984; Barbara K. Lewalski in 1986.American Philosophical Society
  • In 1878 he wrote, "From the necessary brevity of the course, their attention was confined chiefly to Spherical Astronomy.Astronomy
  • An Athletic Association was founded on November 30, 1875, but was inactive until it was revived in the fall of 1878, when the first field day was held.Athletics
  • Bailey wrote, "At the end of the season I was voted thirty dollars, and was tempted to go on by the title of instructor and the advanced pay of fifty dollars for the season of 1878."Bailey, William Whitman
  • The appointments of John Whipple Potter Jenks as professor of agricultural zoology in 1874 in accordance with the requirements of the Morrill Act, of William Whitman Bailey as instructor in botany in 1877, and of Alpheus Spring Packard as professor of zoology and geology in 1878 made it possible for Parsons finally to devote his course to human anatomy and physiology.Biology
  • Alpheus Spring Packard joined the department in 1878 and taught electives in zoology and geology.Biology
  • Henry Lippitt 1878 was in charge of collecting money for a new boat house, which was built during the summer of 1875 by Peabody and Wilbur.Boat House
  • William Patten 1818 (1867-1873), Benjamin F. Thomas 1830 (1874-1878) and Thomas Durfee 1846 (1879-1888) were all lawyers.Chancellors
  • In 1878 a group of seniors held a reception in University Hall and Manning Hall.Class Day
  • In 1871 and again in 1876 seniors requested an elective course, which became a regular course in 1878.Classics
  • For about twenty years in his well-known stove-pipe hat he presided over a three-level tin box filled with confections from the catering business of Lewis H. Humphrey, the proprietor of the City Hotel, and only gave up his post on the chapel steps in 1878, at an estimated age of ninety.College servants
  • In 1938 the Faculty Club moved to the house at 1 Megee Street, the former home of Zachariah Allen 1813, designed by Alfred Stone and built in 1864, which had become the home of William Ely 1878.Faculty Club
  • In 1874 a football association was formed, but Brown did not play an intercollegiate game until invited by Amherst College in 1878.Football
  • On November 12, 1878 (nine years to the day after Rutgers and Princeton played the first intercollegiate game) Brown arrived at Amherst fitted out with white canvas uniforms and brown stockings, which they had obtained two days before the game for a fifty-dollar down payment and Brown Football Association President George Malcom’s watch as security for the balance.Football
  • Between 1878 and 1932 Brown’s powerful teams won 254, lost 158, and tied 23.Football
  • Alpheus Spring Packard became professor of zoology and geology in 1878 and was succeeded at his death in 1905 by Charles Wilson Brown, who set up a separate Department of Geology in the basement of Sayles Hall.Geology
  • His own post-graduate lectures given in 1878-79 and 1879-80 had been replaced the next year by a course of lectures on a variety of subjects, also open to the public, taught by six faculty members.Graduate School
  • In 1878 John Hay became Assistant Secretary of State and moved back to Washington.Hay, John
  • Charles Evans 1881 Hughes entered Brown in 1878 after two years at Colgate.Hughes, Charles Evans 1881
  • The chalet-style building, designed by Stone and Carpenter and built in 1878, was first used by Mrs. Caroline Alden, who opened a school for training kindergarten teachers in the Froebel method.Jews
  • Langdon studied at Harvard from 1878 to 1881, and between 1881 and 1890 he taught German and romance languages in various places including Lehigh and Cornell Universities.Langdon, Courtney
  • The "New Library" (now Robinson Hall) was dedicated on February 16, 1878.Library
  • The new regulations adopted by the Corporation on June 20, 1878 permitted undergraduates to borrow up to three volumes for two weeks, provided that any student planning to leave Providence for more than one week return his books before his departure.Library
  • The next year John Larkin Lincoln was promoted to professor, and, although presidencies of colleges were offered him, kept that position for the rest his days with the exception of three trips to Europe, one for his health in 1857, the next in the summer of 1878, and the last a year’s absence in 1887-88.Lincoln, John Larkin
  • The library removed to the new library building (now Robinson Hall) in 1878, and, after the renovation of University Hall in 1883, the president’s lecture room was located in the lower floor of Manning Hall.Manning Hall
  • A fine walrus skin was obtained in 1878 as the parting gift of the senior class.Museum of Natural History
  • Nicholson House at 71 George Street, was originally the home of Francis W. Goddard, built in 1878-79 and given to him by his mother, Charlotte Ives Goddard.Nicholson House
  • From 1867 to 1878 Alpheus S. Packard was curator and then director of the Peabody Academy of Science.Packard, Alpheus S.
  • Alpheus S. Packard came to Brown as professor of geology and zoology in 1878.Packard, Alpheus S.
  • William Carey Poland was hired by Mrs. John Carter Brown to teach Latin to her sons, John Nicholas and Harold, and in 1878 was given a leave of absence from his duties at Brown to travel to Europe with the Browns to tutor his young charges.Poland, William Carey
  • Elliott kept this job until 1864, and was succeeded in the position by William Douglas 1839 from 1864 to 1879, Francis W. Douglas 1868 from 1879 to 1884, Gilman P. Robinson 1878 from 1884 to 1889, John C. Stockbridge 1838 from 1889 to 1891, and Frederick T. Guild 1890 from 1891 to 1938.Registrar
  • Roland George Dwight Richardson (1878-1949), professor of mathematics and dean of the Graduate School, was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, on May 14, 1878.Richardson, Roland G. D.
  • Despite his satisfaction with the state of the University, his resignation was saddened by, and perhaps precipitated by the fact that his son, Gilman P. Robinson 1878, who had been registrar of the University since 1884, had been charged with failing to deposit cash payments of tuition to the credit of the University.Robinson, Ezekiel Gilman
  • Robinson Hall was the "New Library" of 1878.Robinson Hall
  • His widow paid the difference between what he had given and the final cost of $95,588 for the building, which was dedicated on February 16, 1878.Robinson Hall
  • 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
  • Sayles Hall was dedicated on June 4, 1881, a memorial to William Clark Sayles 1878 donated by his father, William F. Sayles.Sayles Hall
  • On June 14, 1878 his father wrote to President Robinson offering $50,000 for a building "which shall be exclusively and forever devoted to lectures and recitations, and to meetings on academic occasions."Sayles Hall
  • Track and field events began at Brown in 1878, when the Athletic Association held the first Field Day.Track
  • From May 1878 to September 1879 Winslow Upton was a member of the staff of the Harvard Observatory, which experience was the inspiration for a skit, "The Observatory Pinafore, (obviously a parody on a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta), which included such lines as:Fifty years later this work came to light and was performed on December 31, 1929 at a meeting of the American Astronomical Association, to the delight of its audience."Upton, Winslow
  • Uniforms for the unit were provided by the Class of 1878.World War I