Encyclopedia Brunoniana

1866

  • Since the first payment on the sale of the land was due in 1866 and the deadline for establishing the agricultural department was July 1867, Professor George Ide Chace, president "ad interim" after the resignation of Barnas Sears, arranged a program of courses from the existing curriculum, which was printed in the annual catalogue.Agricultural lands
  • David Wallis Reeves became the leader in 1866.American Band
  • Elisha Benjamin Andrews entered Brown in 1866 at the age of 22 and graduated in 1870.Andrews, Elisha Benjamin
  • James Burrill Angell became president of the University of Vermont in 1866 and president of the University of Michigan in 1871.Angell, James Burrill
  • William Whitman Bailey was assistant in chemistry at Brown in 1865 and at M.I.T. in 1866.Bailey, William Whitman
  • At the Hammer and Tongs entertainment in the evening following the game, Edward K. Glezen 1866 presented, on behalf of the young ladies present at the game, a shield of flowers bearing the letters "B.U.Baseball
  • For some reason, in December 1921, when the "Herald" was celebrating its thirtieth anniversary, the masthead began to include the words, "Founded in 1866, Daily since 1891."BDH Brown Daily Herald
  • Perhaps the "Herald," decided to adopt its rival, the "Brunonian," with which it had coexisted, as an antecedent, and to stretch its life back to 1866, when another "Brunonian," this one a rival of the "Brown Paper," appeared.BDH Brown Daily Herald
  • Between 1866 and 1870 Eli Whitney Blake taught at the University of Vermont, Columbia, and Cornell.Blake, Eli Whitney
  • A rival paper, also called "Brunonian" and brought about by a split in the senior class election, was issued in 1866 in addition to the regularly published "Brown Paper."Brown Paper
  • The title, "Brunonian," was used from time to time by other publications, including a rival publication to the "Brown Paper" in 1866, a publication of Delta Upsilon in the late 1930s, a publication of Alpha Delta Phi in 1963, and the only issue of "a university publication prepared for all Brown alumni in military service" in August 1944.Brunonian
  • In 1866 the family moved to Massachusetts, and Bumpus attended a number of different schools as they moved around in the vicinity of Boston.Bumpus, Hermon Carey
  • Arnold Buffum Chace graduated from Brown in 1866.Chace, Arnold Buffum
  • Arnold Buffum Chace 1866 (1907-1932) was a cotton manufacturer and Henry D. Sharpe 1894 (1932-1952) was president of Brown and Sharpe Manufacturing Company.Chancellors
  • Excerpts from the diary of Henry S. Burrage 1861 recorded the events at Brown occasioned by the attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861: On the day before Commencement in 1866 a tablet in memory of the twenty-one Union Brown men who died in the war was dedicated.Civil War
  • In 1866 began the custom of a promenade concert on the College Green before the class supper.Class Day
  • The College Color, brown, the obvious choice as it would appear today, was not adopted until after 1866, when the "Brown Paper" reported on the question of choosing a college color, "the general opinion seems to be that "brown" should be adopted ...College color
  • The Thalian Dramatic Society was noted in the "Brown Paper" in 1866, but was never heard from again.Dramatics
  • The sport, banned by President Sears in 1862, became very popular with all the classes when it was reinstated in 1866, and then reverted to its former status as a freshman-sophomore encounter.Football
  • In 1866 it reverted to a freshman-sophomore society.Fraternities
  • Horatio B. Hackett contributed thirty articles to William Smith’s "Dictionary of the Bible," published in England in 1861-63, and in 1866 began an American edition of Smith’s "Dictionary," which was published between 1867 and 1870.Hackett, Horatio B.
  • The second part, for the years 1601 to 1700, was published in 1866, and the third part, from 1701 to 1800, in 1870 and 1871.John Carter Brown Library
  • William Williams Keen returned in 1866 to lecture at Jefferson Medical College and to conduct the Philadelphia School of Anatomy.Keen, William Williams
  • German was taught by a native instructor in 1861-62, then by President Barnas Sears until his retirement in 1866, after which German was added to the duties of John Larkin Lincoln, professor of Latin.Modern Languages
  • After serving as assistant surgeon of the First Maine Veteran Volunteers during the Civil War, Alpheus S. Packard became librarian and custodian of the Boston Society of Natural History in 1865 and curator of the Essex Institute in 1866.Packard, Alpheus S.
  • The last joint celebration of the Philermenians and the United Brothers occurred in 1863, the last initiation of members of new members in 1866.Philermenian Society
  • In the fall of 1866 a mission was opened in South Providence, its teachers chiefly from the association, and the next summer a chapel was built and a parish organized as Christ Church.Religious Societies
  • John B. G. Pidge 1866 remembered the new teaching methods in Sears’s classes: The students so loved Sears, that when he left Brown and Providence on September 19, 1867, they formed a procession in order of classes which marched down the hill by his house, and then at the wharf, filed by, each student shaking his president’s hand.Sears, Barnas
  • Marshall Woods, who was named treasurer in 1866, unlike his predecessors of the last ninety years, was not a member of the Brown family, although he did marry Ann Brown Francis, whose mother was the daughter of former treasurer Nicholas Brown and whose father was the grandson of former treasurer John Brown.Treasurer
  • The remaining treasurers have been Arnold Buffum Chace 1866 from 1882 to 1900; Cornelius S. Sweetland 1866 from 1900 to 1923; Frank W. Matteson 1892 from 1923 to 1933, Edwin Aylsworth Burlingame ’14, acting treasurer from 1933 to 1934; Harold C. Field 1894 from 1934 to 1949; George Burton Hibbert from 1949 to 1950; Gordon L. Parker ’18 from 1950 to 1965; Patrick J. James ’32 from 1965 to 1970; Joseph W. Ress ’26 from 1970 to 1979; Andrew M. Hunt ’51 from 1979 to 1988; and Marie J. Langlois ’64 since 1988.Treasurer
  • Arthur Eugene Watson (1866-1956), professor of engineering, was born in Providence on March 4, 1866.Watson, Arthur E.