Encyclopedia Brunoniana

1836

  • Jasper Adams resigned for the second time in 1836.Adams, Jasper
  • In the summer of 1863 President Sears and Horace T. Love 1836 inspected the land, which was located in Kansas.Agricultural lands
  • Chace, who had been teaching natural philosophy and chemistry, was sent to Philadelphia to attend lectures, and in 1836 was appointed professor of chemistry, physiology, and geology.Biology
  • Eli Whitney Blake (1836-1895), professor of physics, was born in New Haven on April 20, 1836.Blake, Eli Whitney
  • Tristam Burges was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for governor in 1836.Burges, Tristam
  • President Francis Wayland, who had been teaching a physiology course, sent Chace to Philadelphia to attend lectures, after which he was appointed professor of chemistry, physiology, and geology in 1836.Chace, George Ide
  • In the summer of 1836 George Ide Chace traveled through Virginia and Kentucky to acquire geological specimens.Chace, George Ide
  • In 1836 his title included also geology and physiology.Chemistry
  • Commencement in 1836 was much better, even outshining Harvard’s, according to the description in Benjamin Waterhouse’s diary: "September 7th.Commencement
  • Enrollment fluctuated from 98 in 1828, to 196 in 1836, back down to 140 in 1845.Enrollment
  • Alpha Delta Phi established a chapter in 1836, followed by Delta Phi in 1838 and Psi Upsilon in 1840.Fraternities
  • Alpha Delta Phi (Brunonian chapter) was established in 1836, the first fraternity at Brown and the only one until the appearance of Delta Phi two years later.Fraternities
  • In 1836 a committee of the Corporation was appointed to raise funds for a building for instruction in the sciences.Fund-raising
  • Geology was recognized as a separate study when George Ide Chace was appointed professor of chemistry, physiology, and geology in 1836.Geology
  • After graduation in 1836, Lincoln was at Columbian College (now George Washington University), first as a teacher in the preparatory school and then as a tutor in the college.Lincoln, John Larkin
  • Mount Marcy, 5,343 feet high, the highest peak in the Adirondacks and the highest mountain in New York State, was named in 1836 by Professor Ebenezer Emmons of the New York Geological Survey in honor of Marcy, when he was governor of New York.Marcy, William L.
  • Asa Messer (1769-1836), third president of Brown University, was born in Methuen, Massachusetts on May 31, 1769.Messer, Asa
  • The 1836-37 catalog announced that "Instruction in French, German and Hebrew is also furnished to those who desire it, at the expense of the student."Modern Languages
  • John Peirce (1836-1897), professor of chemistry, was born in Providence on August 16, 1836, after the death of his father.Peirce, John
  • Among the orators and poets have been Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1836, George William Curtis in 1854, Edward Everett Hale in 1885, and Woodrow Wilson in 1903.Phi Beta Kappa
  • John Larkin Lincoln 1836 wrote in his diary on May 15, 1833, "Joined the Society of Inquiry to-night by a relation of my experience ...Religious Societies
  • At the Corporation meeting on September 8, 1836, a committee was appointed to "devise means for erecting a building for lecture rooms and rooms for the reception of geological and physiological specimens."Rhode Island Hall
  • Barnas Sears returned to teach for about a year at Hamilton before becoming professor of Christian theology at Newton Theological Institution in 1836.Sears, Barnas
  • The house at 66 Benefit Street belonged in 1836, and perhaps earlier, to John Slater, the son of Samuel Slater, builder of the first cotton mill in the country.Slater Memorial Homestead
  • Among the writings which made Wheaton famous were "Elements of International Law," published in 1836, "Enquiry into the Validity of the British Claim to a Right of Visitation and Search of American Vessels Suspected to be Engaged in the African Slave Trade" in 1842, and "History of the Law of Nations in Europe and America, from the Earliest Times to the Treaty of Washington" (a work which was first written in French for a competition of the French Institute, in which it won honorable mention) in 1845.Wheaton, Henry