Elisha Bartlett taught in nine schools, his appointments being professor of pathological anatomy and materia medica at the Berkshire Medical Institute in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1832, professor at Dartmouth in 1839, professor of the theory and practice of medicine at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky in 1841 and at the University of Maryland in 1844, professor of materia medica and obstetrics at Vermont Medical College in 1844 (he taught a course for thirteen weeks each year until 1854), and professor of the theory and practice of medicine at the University of Louisville in March 1849 for one session only, after which he went to the University of New York.Bartlett, Elisha
When Delta Phi began to pledge freshmen, Alpha Delta Phi, rather than seek their members from among the freshmen or from upper classes already picked over by Delta Phi, chose to cease the initiation of new members after January 1839, and went out of existence at Commencement in 1841, when all its members had graduated.Fraternities
The campaign brought in $19,437.50, which was put at interest until it grew to $25,000, which was then invested, and by 1839 supplied an income for books and apparatus.Fund-raising
In March 1839 Nicholas Brown 1786 announced that he would subscribe $10,000 for the science building and a new president’s house, provided the same amount should be subscribed before May 1.Fund-raising
Charles T. Congdon 1841 remembered Hackett: When Hackett left Brown in 1839 to become professor of Biblical literature at Newton Theological Institution, Ezekiel Gilman Robinson1838 went along to continue his studies with him.Hackett, Horatio B.
The next year Colonel Thomas Handasyd Perkins gave Samuel Gridley Howe's mansion for the school, and in 1839 it was renamed the Perkins Institution for the Blind in his honor.Howe, Samuel Gridley
Horace Mann brought about the establishment of the first state normal school in the United States, which was opened on July 3, 1839 in Lexington.Mann, Horace
Alpheus Spring Packard (1839-1905), professor of zoology and geology, was born in Brunswick, Maine, on February 19, 1839.Packard, Alpheus S.
Elliott kept this job until 1864, and was succeeded in the position by William Douglas 1839 from 1864 to 1879, Francis W. Douglas 1868 from 1879 to 1884, Gilman P. Robinson 1878 from 1884 to 1889, John C. Stockbridge 1838 from 1889 to 1891, and Frederick T. Guild 1890 from 1891 to 1938.Registrar
The needed impetus came in the form of a letter from Nicholas Brown, on March 18, 1839, presenting two lots of land on Waterman Street for a president’s house and a lot on George Street for "another College edifice for the accommodation of the Departments of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Geology, and Natural History."Rhode Island Hall