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1854

  • 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 illness which was to result in paralysis struck Bartlett in 1854, he passed his time writing a little volume entitled "Simple Settings in Verse, for Six Portraits and Pictures from Mr. Dickens’s Gallery," which he sent as a farewell gift to his friends before his death on July 19, 1855.Bartlett, Elisha
  • The Caesar Augustus statue, the gift of Moses Brown Ives Goddard 1854, was unveiled on the opening day of the college year, September 19, 1906.Caesar Augustus
  • The land first occupied by Manning’s garden passed through several hands before being acquired by the University in 1854.Campus
  • John Brown Francis 1818 (1841-1854) was Governor of Rhode Island and a United States Senator.Chancellors
  • Samuel Boyd Tobey (1854-1867) was a physician and a Quaker.Chancellors
  • Egyptology was established as a department of study in 1948 through the will of Theodora Wilbour, who had died in 1947, leaving $750,000 to start the department and endow a chair in Egyptology in memory of her father, Charles Edwin Wilbour 1854.Egyptology
  • In 1854 he went to work for the "New York Herald Tribune."Egyptology
  • At Brown he was replaced by Frederick Hesse, who was named as instructor in drawing and civil engineering, and by Rev. Henry Day, professor of natural philosophy and civil engineering from 1852 to 1854.Engineering
  • The Brown chapter flourished until 1854, when it ended abruptly, after a number of its members left college as a result of their involvement in the dissemination of a mock program at the junior exhibition.Fraternities
  • Wayland wrote further of him: Professor Goddard’s sons were Thomas Poynton Ives Goddard 1846, William Goddard 1846, Moses Brown Ives Goddard 1854, Francis Wayland Goddard 1855, and Robert Hale Ives Goddard 1858.Goddard, William Giles
  • In 1852 Samuel Stillman Greene and others opened a private normal school in Providence, which the next year received the support of the city, and in 1854 became the Rhode Island Normal School (later Rhode Island College of Education and then Rhode Island College).Greene, Samuel Stillman
  • The teaching of didactics ceased in 1854.Greene, Samuel Stillman
  • Albert 1842 Harkness's Ph.D. degree was earned in Bonn in 1854.Harkness, Albert 1842
  • Horace Mann House at 47-49 George Street was built by Seth Adams as a rental property in 1854.Horace Mann House
  • The result of this disagreement was Jewett’s dismissal in July of 1854.Jewett, Charles C.
  • True to his vocation, Jewett turned down a college presidency and in 1854 accepted the opportunity to purchase and arrange the books needed for the new Boston Public Library.Jewett, Charles C.
  • The equestrian statue, a copy of the one on Capitoline Hill in Rome, was presented by Col. Robert Hale Ives Goddard 1858 on behalf of his deceased brother Moses Brown Ives Goddard 1854.Marcus Aurelius
  • Marcy negotiated the Canadian reciprocity treaty in 1854, sought the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands, promoted the abolition of the Danish Sound dues, urged the free navigation of international streams, and favored the annexation of Cuba if this could be accomplished without war.Marcy, William L.
  • 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
  • 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
  • In 1854 a brick barn was built for the use of the president on Prospect Street at the rear of the University Grammar School lot.President’s House
  • When Henry Frieze left for the University of Michigan in 1854, the school was run by Merrick Lyon, who was in charge of the classical department, and his brother, Emory Lyon, who took over the English and mathematical department.University Grammar School
  • "The Elements of Moral Science" was first published in 1835, "The Elements of Political Economy" in 1837, and "The Elements of Intellectual Philosophy" in 1854.Wayland, Francis
  • Benjamin Ide Wheeler (1854-1927), president of the University of California, was born in Randolph, Massachusetts, on July 15, 1854.Wheeler, Benjamin Ide
  • It was named for Charles Edwin Wilbour 1854, in whose memory a chair of Egyptology was established by his daughter.Wilbour Hall
  • In 1854 he started a chemical merchandising company in Providence, but did not meet with much success.Wilson Hall