Encyclopedia Brunoniana

1827

  • Astronomy, which may have been taught in the course in natural philosophy, appears in the 1827-28 annual catalogue as a separate subject.Astronomy
  • Biology was part of the curriculum during the existence of the early medical school from 1811 to 1827, when undergraduates were admitted to the lectures in anatomy, chemistry, and botany.Biology
  • Drowne’s lectures ended when the medical lectures were discontinued in 1827.Botany
  • President Wayland shortened the winter vacation to six weeks in 1827.Calendar
  • In 1827 Alexis Caswell was ordained and installed as minister of a Baptist church in Halifax, Nova Scotia.Caswell, Alexis
  • After the exercises seven hundred alumni and guests attended a dinner in a large tent on the campus, and heard speeches by ex-president Wayland and Professor Goldwin Smith of Oxford University, and a poem by Charles Thurber 1827.Centennial celebration
  • George Ide Chace entered Brown in 1827 as a sophomore and graduated in 1830, at which time he delivered a Commencement address on "The Results of Improvements in the Science of Education."Chace, George Ide
  • He continued to teach until the demise of the medical school in 1827.Chemistry
  • Burges was soon relieved of his burden, after the arrival of Francis Wayland as president in 1827.English
  • When President Wayland arrived in 1827, determined to take control of a student body which had become unruly, he revived a former rule that required the officers of instruction to visit the students’ rooms and added to it that the officers must "occupy rooms in College, during the hours appointed to study."Faculty
  • Delta Phi (Beta chapter) was established in 1838, when an application of Jonas D. Sleeper 1840 and Edwin C. Larned 1840 for a chapter at Brown was granted by the first chapter at Union College, which had not approved any other extension of the fraternity since its founding in 1827.Fraternities
  • Having been elected to the Massachusetts Senate in 1827, Horace Mann was involved with the passage of legislation creating the State Board of Education and the first state insane asylum in the United States.Mann, Horace
  • The medical instruction which was given from that date until 1827 is often referred to as the "Medical School," but it was, in fact, not a separate school, and was called at the time of its existence the "Medical Department," or, more accurately, the "Medical Lectures in Brown University."Medical education
  • When Francis Wayland arrived as president in 1827, he was determined to improve the discipline in the college, and convinced the Corporation to vote in March 1827 that thereafter no member of the faculty should receive his salary unless he occupied a room in the college and helped to preserve order among the students.Medical education
  • In a letter written on June 17, 1827, Wayland asked Usher Parsons to inform the New England medical community that medical courses at Brown had been suspended.Medical education
  • In 1827 the Corporation appointed a committee to consider establishing a course in modern languages, and the annual catalogue for 1827-28 mentions Hebrew or French as optional studies in the third term of the senior year.Modern Languages
  • The diary of Williams Latham 1827 contains references to the Harmonic Society on November 24, 1826, "Harmonic Society got excused from singing in the Chapel any more this term, and on March 25, 1827, "the Harmonic Society to Mr. Edes’s Meeting house, where with the use of the Organ we sung many tunes out of Bridgewater Collection to the gratification of Rev. Mr. Edes and some others."Musical Clubs
  • When Francis Wayland became president in 1827, he found that influential men among the Federal Adelphi were prepared to antagonize him as they had Asa Messer before him.Phi Beta Kappa
  • Physical education was unheard of until the arrival of Francis Wayland as president in 1827.Physical Education
  • Wayland, who was given to exercise as an aid to mental agility, installed a German "Turnplatz" on the campus in the spring of 1827 and regular exercises began in the summer term under George F. Haskins.Physical Education
  • Members of the faculty were encouraged to partake of the gymnastic program, and did so at first, but they soon found ways to avoid the exercises, which came to an end with the cold weather even before the 1827-28 annual catalogue was printed with its announcement, "A very complete Gymnasium, with every variety of apparatus for exercise, has lately been erected on the College grounds," the last mention of the Gymnasium.Physical Education
  • In May 1827 the Society chose to change its name to the Society for Missionary Inquiry, reflecting the desire of its members to learn more about the religious condition of the world.Religious Societies
  • In 1827 Barnas Sears was named pastor of the First Baptist Church in Hartford.Sears, Barnas
  • Francis Wayland, succeeding Messer as president in 1827, revived the law that officers of the college must visit students daily in their rooms, and report all infractions of rules.Student conduct
  • Tuition was increased at intervals, reaching $20 in 1801, $36 in 1827, $50 in 1864, and $75 in 1870.Tuition
  • Francis Wayland took up his position in February 1827, determined to improve the conduct of the students who had become unruly during the controversy prior to Messer’s resignation.Wayland, Francis
  • Henry Wheaton was a justice of the marine court of New York City from 1815 to 1819 and United States Supreme Court reporter from 1816 to 1827.Wheaton, Henry
  • In 1827 President John Quincy Adams appointed him chargé d’affaires to Denmark, where Henry Wheaton negotiated a treaty recovering payment for the seizure of American ships and became proficient in the Danish language.Wheaton, Henry
  • The buildings were named for two Brown presidents and seven alumni, among them two Secretaries of State, three professors, a public health superintendent, and the man who led the Housing and Development campaign to finance the Quadrangle: Marcy House for William Learned Marcy 1808, Governor of New York, Secretary of War, and Secretary of State, Olney House for Richard Olney 1856, Attorney General and Secretary of State, Goddard House for William Giles Goddard 1812, newspaper editor and professor of moral philosophy and belles-lettres, Diman House for Jeremiah Lewis Diman 1851, professor of history and political economy, Sears House for Barnas Sears 1825, president from 1855 to 1867, Wayland House for Francis Wayland, president from 1827 to 1855, Chapin House for Charles V. Chapin 1876, professor of physiology, and superintendent of health in Providence, Harkness House for Albert Harkness 1842, professor of Greek, and Buxton House for G. Edward Buxton ’02, chairman of the Housing and Development Campaign which built the Quadrangle.Wriston Quadrangle