Encyclopedia Brunoniana

1915

  • After graduation from Cranston High School and a summer spent as night watchman at the reform school where he was born, Adams entered Brown University in the fall of 1915, expecting to major in economics with a business career in mind.Adams, Clarence Raymond
  • In 1915-16 students could be admitted at both the beginning and the middle of the academic year to accommodate midwinter graduates of secondary schools.Admission
  • It served as the Governor’s Mansion during the administration of R. Livingston Beekman, Governor of Rhode Island from 1915 to 1921, who resided there in the English splendor he so much admired.Andrews House
  • Raymond C. Archibald's published works included "Carlyle’s First Love, Margaret Gordon, Lady Bannerman" in 1910, "Euclid’s book On Division of Figures" in 1915, "A Semicentennial History of the American Mathematical Society, 1888-1938" in 1938, and "Outline of the History of Mathematics" in 1932 and five subsequent editions.Archibald, Raymond C.
  • Arnold Laboratory was built in 1915 at a cost of $80,000 furnished by the bequest of Dr. Oliver H. Arnold 1865.Arnold Laboratory
  • On the retirement of Poland in 1915, the direction of the Museum was transferred to the Department of Greek.Art
  • John Shapley was instructor in art from 1915 to 1919 and assistant professor from 1919 to 1924.Art
  • In 1915 Clarence A. Barbour was named Wyckoff Professor of Homiletics and president of Rochester Theological Seminary.Barbour, Clarence A.
  • In 1915 the varsity won seventeen and lost four, and for the first time a second team was organized and won six of its eleven scheduled games.Baseball
  • Albert A. ’10 Bennett received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1915, having spent a year at the mathematical center at Göttingen.Bennett, Albert A. ’10
  • In 1915 the department moved out of Rhode Island Hall into the new Arnold Laboratory built especially for biology.Biology
  • Ralph M. Blake graduated from Williams College in 1911 and earned A.M. and Ph.D. degrees at Harvard in 1912 and 1915.Blake, Ralph M.
  • Ralph M. Blake was instructor in philosophy at Princeton from 1915 to 1917, acting professor at Wells College for one year, and was named assistant professor at the University of Washington in 1919.Blake, Ralph M.
  • Ralph L. Blanchard graduated from Brown in 1915.Blanchard, Ralph L.
  • York left for West Virginia, and Walter H. Snell ’13, who had been assistant in botany in 1915-16 and instructor in 1919-20, took his place.Botany
  • He graduated from Brown in 1915, served as an assistant in the English Department for a year, then taught at Phillips Academy in Andover, at Oregon State College, and served in the army during World War I, before coming back to Brown in 1923 as assistant professor.Brown, Sharon
  • From 1910 to 1913 Harold S. Bucklin taught school in Ironwood, Michigan, after which he was resident and playground director at the Henry Street Settlement in New York while he was a graduate student at the New York School of Social Work, where he received a master of arts degree in 1915.Bucklin, Harold S.
  • Harold S. Bucklin came back to Brown as instructor in social science in 1915 and earned his Ph.D. degree in 1918.Bucklin, Harold S.
  • Millar Burrows received his divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in 1915 and the same year was ordained a minister in the Presbyterian Church.Burrows, Millar
  • The Cammarian Club also took on fraternity rushing, and recommended a delayed rushing season to give the freshmen and the fraternities more time to become acquainted, and in 1915 established an Interfraternity Governing Board for enforcing regulations.Cammarian Club
  • The 1915 Club, the first chosen by popular election, amended the Constitution to provide for the election of its members by the three upper classes, established a blanket tax to support athletics, publications, and debating, and limited the offices one person could hold.Cammarian Club
  • In 1915 a crop of buckwheat was raised on the middle campus and plowed in to benefit both the trees and the lawn about to be seeded there.Campus
  • In addition to the land acquired from Stephen O. Metcalf, in 1915 more land on Cushing Street was added by the purchase of houses, three of which were torn done, one at 123 Cushing Street fitted for rental, and one at 98 Cushing Street turned into a cooperative dormitory for the Women’s College.Campus
  • Robert F. Chambers became assistant in chemistry at Brown in 1914-15, and was promoted to instructor in 1915, assistant professor in 1916, and associate professor in 1922.Chambers, Robert F.
  • In 1915 a second such committee recommended "that no action be taken at the present time."Charter
  • In 1915 there was concern that Class Day was turning into a fraternity day with seniors missing exercises to prepare for receptions in off-campus fraternity houses.Class Day
  • Professor Albert Harkness retired in 1892 and was replaced by James Irving Manatt, who was professor of Greek literature and history from 1892 to 1915.Classics
  • In 1915 a Greek play, a modern version of Aristophanes’ "The Frogs" was performed by the Faculty.Classics
  • In 1927 Kendall K. Smith, who had taught Greek at Brown since 1915, became head of Classics, a position which was assumed by Benjamin C. Clough after Smith’s death in 1929.Classics
  • Benjamin C. Clough served as assistant in the English Department at Brown from 1913 to 1915, instructor from 1915 to 1917 and again from 1920 to 1922, and was promoted to assistant professor in 1922.Clough, Benjamin C.
  • Nathaniel F. Davis retired in 1915, and died on May 17, 1921 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Davis, Nathaniel F.
  • James Q. Dealey also published "The Development of the States" in 1909, "The Family in its Sociological Aspects" in 1912, "Growth of the State Constitutions" in 1915, "State and Government" in 1921, "Foreign Policies of the United States" in 1926, and "Political Situations in Rhode Island" in 1928.Dealey, James Q.
  • Ralph L. Blanchard arrived in 1915, and Benjamin W. Brown was appointed in 1921 to teach drama, public speaking, and playwriting.English
  • Perhaps the most memorable moment in Brown football history is the 1915 team’s appearance in what is referred to as the first "annual" Rose Bowl game.Football
  • Brown did not have a really outstanding season in 1915, ending with a 5-3-1 record.Football
  • The Interfraternity Governing Board was established by the Cammarian Club in 1915.Fraternities
  • In 1915 the Cammarian Club was criticized by the "Brown Daily Herald" for abolishing freshman caps in January and reinstating them in March.Freshman caps
  • The Publicity Committee announced in October 1915 that publication would be temporarily suspended.GSJ George Street Journal
  • James B. Hedges earned a bachelor of arts degree at the University of Missouri in 1915 and a master’s in 1916.Hedges, James B.
  • Walter B. Jacobs was director of university extension from 1915 until 1931, by which time the registration had climbed to 3400 persons in nearly sixty courses.Jacobs, Walter B.
  • The first of these, the Menorah Society, was dedicated on January 6, 1915 in the Brown Union.Jews
  • Winship came to the campus with the Library, and by the time of his retirement in 1915, the collection had grown to 30,000 volumes.John Carter Brown Library
  • James Irving Manatt (1845-1915), professor of Greek literature and history, was born in Millersburg, Ohio, on February 17, 1845.Manatt, James Irving
  • In 1893 James Irving Manatt became professor of Greek literature and history at Brown, a position he held until his sudden death from pneumonia on February 14, 1915 in Providence.Manatt, James Irving
  • Nathaniel French Davis 1870 returned to Brown in 1874 as instructor in mathematics and remained until 1915, being named professor of pure mathematics in 1890.Mathematics
  • May Day of 1915 was described as "the best organized May Stunt we have had," with three heralds in brown, wearing the bear rampant, leading a procession of "personages of every county and every class, from the fair Queen of the May to tinkers and sailors."May Day
  • Carl W. Miller graduated from Harvard in 1915, received a Sheldon Prize Fellowship with which he studied in Zurich and Paris in 1915-16, then returned to Harvard as an assistant in the Physics Department from 1916 to 1918, when he became an inspection supervisor of army ordnance.Miller, Carl W.
  • When the Biology Department moved into Arnold Laboratory in 1915, Rhode Island Hall was assigned to other departments and the contents of the Museum were put into storage.Museum of Natural History
  • However, an oration and a poem were delivered in 1915.Phi Beta Kappa
  • William Carey Poland continued as professor of the history of art until his retirement in 1915.Poland, William Carey
  • Albert K. Potter was promoted to professor in 1915.Potter, Albert K.
  • In 1915 the Providence Biblical Institute sponsored a series of lectures in cooperation with the University and presented speakers from Harvard, Yale, and Union Theological Seminary.Religious Studies
  • In 1915 the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Biblical Literature combined to teach a course in the History of Religion.Religious Studies
  • When Biology moved to Arnold Laboratory in 1915, Rhode Island Hall was remodeled, and the Philosophy Department was installed on the first floor, while the Geology Department moved to the basement and the second floor from the basement of Sayles.Rhode Island Hall
  • Roland G. D. Richardson was promoted to associate professor in 1912 and professor in 1915.Richardson, Roland G. D.
  • Roland G. D. Richardson was head of the Department of Mathematics from 1915 to 1942.Richardson, Roland G. D.
  • The classes of 1909 through 1914 dressed as the French soldiers who had occupied University Hall during the Revolution, while the senior class of 1915 were soldiers of the Continental army.Sesquicentennial celebration
  • Kendall K. Smith taught the classics at Harvard from 1909 to 1915.Smith, Kendall K.
  • In 1915 Kendall K. Smith came to Brown as assistant professor of Greek literature and history.Smith, Kendall K.
  • Harold S. Bucklin ’10 became an instructor in social science in 1915 while he studied for his Ph.D.Sociology
  • The mascot of the Class of 1915 was a professor’s daughter, four-year-old Janet Benedict, who appeared in person.Sophomore Masque
  • While Will S. Taylor was executing these paintings between 1915 and 1925, he also taught painting at Pratt Institute.Taylor, Will S.
  • Archie Hahn, who won three medals in the 1904 Olympics, coached from 1915 to 1920, and Brown came in second in the New Englands in 1917, 1918, and 1920.Track
  • Jacobs was appointed Director of University Extension in 1915.University Extension
  • Clarence M. Webster graduated from Clark University in 1915 and earned a master’s degree from the University of Michigan in 1916.Webster, Clarence M.
  • West Cottage on Cushing Street was opened in 1915, with furnishings provided by the Rhode Island Society for the Collegiate Education of Women, to receive the overflow of women students who could not be accommodated in Miller Hall.West Cottage
  • When the library was given to Brown University in 1904 and the John Carter Brown Library built to house it, Winship came along and remained as librarian until 1915.Winship, George Parker
  • As early as the summer of 1915 a few students went to the Citizens’ Training Center at Plattsburgh.World War I