1855

When Angell married Sarah Caswell, daughter of professor of mathematics Alexis Caswell, in 1855, the students declared that he had won the "mathematical prize."Angell, James Burrill
In 1853 an arrangement was made for the Alumni to hold their literary exercises on alternate years with Phi Beta Kappa, but they did this only in 1855 and 1857.Associated Alumni
Elisha Bartlett (1804-1855), "Brown’s most eminent medical graduate" according to William Osler, was born in Smithfield in 1804.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
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
Alexis Caswell served as president "pro tempore" of the University in 1840-41 while President Francis Wayland traveled in Europe, and was appointed regent of the University to assist the president from 1852 to 1855.Caswell, Alexis
When Wayland resigned in 1855, some expected that Caswell, then the senior member of the faculty, would succeed him, but it was decided that a new president from outside the University would be an advantage, and Barnas Sears was chosen.Caswell, Alexis
Alexis Caswell was vice-president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1855, and at the meeting in 1858 presided in the absence of the president and vice-president.Caswell, Alexis
Benjamin Franklin Clarke took a course at Bridgewater (Massachusetts) State Normal School, from which he graduated in 1855, to prepare himself for teaching.Clarke, Benjamin Franklin
The two classics professors of long standing in the nineteenth century were John Larkin Lincoln, who taught Latin from 1844 until 1891, and Albert Harkness, who taught Greek from 1855 to 1892.Classics
After 1855 the examinations were dropped.Curriculum
Samuel Stillman Greene, who had been serving as professor of didactics, became professor of mathematics and civil engineering from 1855 to 1864.Engineering
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
The versatile Greene went on to serve as professor of mathematics and civil engineering from 1855 to 1864, and professor of natural philosophy and astronomy from 1864 to 1883, with a change of title to professor of mathematics and astronomy in 1875.Greene, Samuel Stillman
From 1853 to 1855 Albert 1842 Harkness was in Germany, studying in Berlin, Bonn, and Göttingen.Harkness, Albert 1842
From 1855 until his retirement in 1892 Albert 1842 Harkness was Professor of Greek at Brown.Harkness, Albert 1842
In 1852 John Hay went to the college at Springfield, and in 1855 was sent to Brown, where his grandfather David Augustus Leonard had graduated in 1792.Hay, John
Such a burial is nicely described in the diary of William Dearth 1855: Before the cremations ended in the 1880s, the students had turned their condemnation to their teachers as well as to the textbook authors.Junior Burials
In addition to teaching John Larkin Lincoln was a member of the University library committee for 35 years, and edited the Annual Catalogue with President Francis Wayland until 1855 and after that time by himself until 1884.Lincoln, John Larkin
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
Barnas Sears taught from 1855 to 1867, and Ezekiel Gilman Robinson from 1872 to 1889.Philosophy
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 September 1855 Barnas Sears replaced Francis Wayland as president of Brown University.Sears, Barnas
Lester F. Ward moved with his parents to Iowa in 1855, but returned to Illinois two years later after the death of his father.Ward, Lester F.
Edward H. Cutler 1857 recalled, "A mat lay in front of the platform in the chapel on which Francis Wayland regularly spat before going up into the desk at morning prayers," and William H. Pabodie 1855 wrote, "It was too flagrant a failing not to be attacked, so at one of the semi-annual exhibitions there appeared on the ‘mock programme’ prepared for the occasion the announcement that ‘Dr.Wayland, Francis
Wayland, with his accustomed accuracy, will now snuff a candle with tobacco juice at a distance of five paces.’" Wayland retired in 1855, and moved to a new home at the corner of Governor and Angell Streets.Wayland, Francis
The buildings were named for two Brown presidents and seven alumni, among them two Secretaries of State, three professors, a public health superintendent, and the man who led the Housing and Development campaign to finance the Quadrangle: Marcy House for William Learned Marcy 1808, Governor of New York, Secretary of War, and Secretary of State, Olney House for Richard Olney 1856, Attorney General and Secretary of State, Goddard House for William Giles Goddard 1812, newspaper editor and professor of moral philosophy and belles-lettres, Diman House for Jeremiah Lewis Diman 1851, professor of history and political economy, Sears House for Barnas Sears 1825, president from 1855 to 1867, Wayland House for Francis Wayland, president from 1827 to 1855, Chapin House for Charles V. Chapin 1876, professor of physiology, and superintendent of health in Providence, Harkness House for Albert Harkness 1842, professor of Greek, and Buxton House for G. Edward Buxton ’02, chairman of the Housing and Development Campaign which built the Quadrangle.Wriston Quadrangle