Encyclopedia Brunoniana

1834

  • The murals in the dining room are of wallpaper printed from hand carved blocks by J. Zuber and Company of Rixheim, Alsace, from original paintings called "Scenic America," done by Z. Zepelius and Ehramann in 1834 in Mulhouse, Germany.Andrews Hall
  • George Ide Chace was appointed adjunct professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in 1833, and professor of chemistry in 1834.Chace, George Ide
  • After 1834 the chapel was on the second floor of Manning Hall.Chapel
  • Six graduates have been president of Colby College; Jeremiah Chaplin 1799, Rufus Babcock 1821, Eliphaz Fay 1821, James Tifft Champlin 1834, Charles Lincoln White 1887, and Benaiah Longley Whitman 1887.College and University Presidents
  • A third organization, the Franklin Society, existed from 1824 to 1834.Debating
  • Solomon Drowne (1753-1834), professor in the early Brown University Medical School, was born on North Main Street in Providence on March 11, 1753.Drowne, Solomon
  • Before this could be accomplished, Solomon Drowne died in Foster on February 5, 1834.Drowne, Solomon
  • John D’Wolf resigned his position in 1834, being unable to comply with a requirement of residency in the college, and became professor of chemistry at the Medical School at Woodstock, Vermont.D’Wolf, John
  • William Giles Goddard was professor of belles lettres from 1834 until his resignation in 1842.English
  • Ten years after its establishment, in 1834, the Franklin Society was dissolved, its library of several hundred volumes was turned over to the College Library, and in 1847 its members were elected in equal proportions into the two older societies.Franklin Society
  • William Giles Goddard was appointed professor of belles-lettres in 1834.Goddard, William Giles
  • George W. Greene lived abroad for twenty years, except for several visits home, during one of which in 1834 he was principal of Kent Academy in East Greenwich.Greene, George W.
  • After graduation from Andover Theological Seminary, Horatio B. Hackett taught at Mount Hope College in Baltimore in 1834-35.Hackett, Horatio B.
  • John Larkin Lincoln joined the Society of Missionary Inquiry in May 1833 and noted in January 1834, "Commenced a practice of meeting with three of my classmates who are pious ... three times a week for religious conversation and prayer."Lincoln, John Larkin
  • Manning Hall was built in 1834 at the expense of Nicholas Brown and named at his request for President Manning.Manning Hall
  • The building, designed by Welles Bosworth of New York City, architect of the J. P. Morgan Library, is of Indiana limestone and has on either side of its main entrance the original seal of the College and the third and permanent seal adopted in 1834.Marston Hall
  • William Giles Goddard succeeded Park from 1825 to 1834, when he switched to the teaching of rhetoric and the evidences of Christianity, and President Wayland became professor of moral and intellectual philosophy.Philosophy
  • Weekly meetings were held in the chapel, with occasional public meetings at the First Baptist Church, and beginning in 1834, regular Sunday afternoon sermons by President Francis Wayland.Religious Societies
  • The Society resumed its earlier name when another Society for Missionary Inquiry began in 1834.Religious Societies
  • There were eight subsequent religious revivals at Brown between 1834 and 1858.Religious Societies
  • The Society for Missionary Inquiry formed in 1834 at first consisted only of those who contemplated missionary labors, but was later opened to other interested persons.Religious Societies
  • In 1886 the Society for Missionary Inquiry which had existed since 1834 was merged with the association as the Department for Missionary Inquiry.Religious Societies