Encyclopedia Brunoniana

1828

  • The trustees of Charleston called him back in 1828 and the college continued to advance under Jasper Adams's administration.Adams, Jasper
  • The Catalogue for 1828-29 added the requirement of "Algebra, as far as Quadratick Equations."Admission
  • Another Brown graduate who had an impact on black education was Joseph T. Robert 1828, a white ordained minister and holder of a medical degree, who took over the care of Augusta Institute for colored ministers in 1871 and moved with that institution when it merged with the Atlanta Baptist Seminary under his presidency.African Americans
  • Alexis Caswell joined the faculty as professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in 1828, and from 1850 to 1863 was professor of mathematics and astronomy.Astronomy
  • When the medical program ended and its professors departed, President Francis Wayland, who had studied medicine, undertook to continue the courses by delivering lectures in natural history in 1828 and in anatomy and physiology in 1829-30.Biology
  • The company’s first lithographs appeared about 1828.Campus
  • Alexis Caswell was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy from 1828 to 1850, professor of mathematics and astronomy from 1850 to 1855, and professor of natural philosophy and astronomy from 1855 to 1863.Caswell, Alexis
  • Several addresses, because of the lateness of the hour, were rescheduled to the commencement dinner the next day, including a 120-line poem by Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe 1828.Centennial celebration
  • Alexander Viets Griswold (1815-1828) was Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Eastern Massachusetts.Chancellors
  • Samuel Willard Bridgham 1794 (1828-1840) was the first graduate to be named Chancellor.Chancellors
  • Chemistry was listed as a subject taught in the second term of senior year in the annual catalogue of 1828.Chemistry
  • Economics was introduced as "political economy" by Francis Wayland in 1828.Economics
  • Enrollment fluctuated from 98 in 1828, to 196 in 1836, back down to 140 in 1845.Enrollment
  • Theodore Foster (1752-1828), early graduate and one of the first two United States Senators from Rhode Island, was born on April 29, 1752 in Brookfield, Massachusetts.Foster, Theodore
  • Theodore Foster died on Providence on January 13, 1828.Foster, Theodore
  • During the life of the Medical School, from 1811 to 1828, twenty-two honorary M.D. degrees were conferred.Honorary degrees
  • Samuel Gridley Howe returned to America in 1828 to undertake a lecture tour to raise supplies of food and clothing for the Greeks and returned to distribute them, giving them away to the feeble, but requiring the able-bodied to work for them.Howe, Samuel Gridley
  • In 1828 John Kingsbury opened a department for girls, which became the Young Ladies’ High School, at which the students learned not the usual feminine accomplishments, but Latin, mathematics and science.Kingsbury, John
  • In 1828 the annual catalogue noted that an entering student "must be well acquainted with ... Colburn’s Algebra, as far as Quadratick Equations."Mathematics
  • The professors of mathematics during the first hundred years included Benjamin West, who lectured from 1786 to 1798, Asa Messer whose title was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy from 1799 to 1802 and who continued to teach after becoming president in 1802, Jasper Adams from 1819 to 1824, Alva Woods from 1824 to 1828, Alexis Caswell from 1828 to 1863, and Samuel Stillman Greene from 1855 to 1864.Mathematics
  • After Jewett, the professor of modern languages were George Washington Greene 1828 from 1848 to 1852, and James B. Angell 1849 from 1852 to 1860.Modern Languages
  • A student band played at Commencement in 1828.Musical Clubs
  • The minutes of the society and lists of members and beneficiaries indicate that it continued until 1828.Philendean Society
  • Natural Philosophy was taught by Alexis Caswell from 1828 to 1850, by William Augustus Norton in 1850 and 1851, by Henry Day from 1851 to 1854, again by Caswell from 1855 to 1864.Physics
  • The Registrar of the University dates back to 1828 when the office of "Register" was created and assumed by Lemuel H. Elliott, who had already been steward since 1826.Registrar
  • In 1828 the office of register was created and Lemuel Elliott, who had begun his nearly forty years of service two years earlier, added the duties of that position to those of the steward.Steward
  • Alva Woods served as president "ad interim" in 1826-27 after the resignation of Asa Messer, and resigned in 1828 to become president of Transylvania University.Woods, Alva
  • J. T. Kirkland of Harvard, writing to Henry Clay on January 5, 1828, recommending Woods for this position, said of him, "He is a ripe scholar, well grounded in the several parts of elementary knowledge.Woods, Alva