At the testimonial dinner, he singled out one, John Brown Francis Herreshoff 1870, whom he called "the leading industrial chemist in the United States," saying, "You notice that I do not say that I am "proud" of him – I would be if I had created him – but as his teacher I only shine with a pale reflected light."Appleton, John Howard
Thus the Brown Clubs began, as the local associations were established in New York in 1869, and in Philadelphia and Boston in 1870.Associated Alumni
President Caswell, in his annual report in 1870, expressed his fear that "the College is ... losing scholarship by the very great interest ... in boating and baseball."Athletics
The class of 1870 had an especially strong team, and in 1868 members of that team accounted for eight players of the varsity nine.Baseball
On the arrival of the Lowells from Boston, they were told that Smith (the only varsity player not of the class of 1870) was ill, so that the University nine could not play them.Baseball
However, they were offered a game with the Class of 1870 team.Baseball
From September 1870 to June 1871 the varsity won eight of its thirteen games, losing three times to Harvard and twice to the Boston Red Stockings.Baseball
Not receiving a permanent appointment, Parsons left in 1870, at which time the physiology course was simply added to the duties of the new professor of physics, Eli Whitney Blake.Biology
In December 1870 several gentlemen of Providence purchased the Providence Skating Rink and donated the building to the University Boat Club.Boat House
By 1867 the "Brown Paper" had doubled in size, but the next year the appearance of a new magazine, the "Brunonian," provided literary articles and college news on a more frequent basis, and the "Brown Paper" reverted to its original size, and in December 1869 was superseded by the first yearbook, "Liber Brunensis" of the Class of 1870.Brown Paper
The "Brunonian" was revived in 1868, first as a quarterly, increasing to six numbers in 1870, appearing every third Saturday in 1874, and eventually becoming biweekly in 1879.Brunonian
In 1870 the "Caduceus" appeared in magazine form with a literary department added.Caduceus
After Commencement was moved to the last Wednesday in June in 1870, the calendar was changed in 1871 so that the first semester ended in mid-January and the second began on February 9 after a three week recess, ending just before Commencement.Calendar
When Albert Harkness was granted a leave of absence to spend the year 1870-71 in Europe, two instructors were hired, William Carey Poland1868 to teach Greek to the freshman and sophomore classes, and Alonzo Williams 1870 to teach Greek and Latin to the freshman class.Classics
College and University presidents who have been educated at Brown include nine of the presidents of Brown: Jonathan Maxcy1787, who was also the president of Union College and the University of South Carolina; Asa Messer1790; Barnas Sears1825, who had formerly been the president of Newton Theological Seminary; Alexis Caswell1822; Ezekiel Gilman Robinson1838, who had been president of Rochester Theological Seminary; Elisha Benjamin Andrews 1870, who had been president of Denison University and was later chancellor of the University of Nebraska; William Herbert Perry Faunce 1880; and Clarence Augustus Barbour 1888, who had also been president of Rochester Theological Seminary.College and University Presidents
The time of Commencement was changed in 1870 to the last Wednesday in June, and again in 1875 to the third Wednesday in June.Commencement
Romeo Elton (1790-1870), professor of Latin and Greek, was born in Burlington, Connecticut, in 1790, His father was a farmer, and in early life Romeo Elton, of frail constitution and gentle disposition, engaged in agricultural pursuits for which he was not particulary suited.Elton, Romeo
Sigma Phi began at Brown as a non-secret society, founded by the members of the classes of 1873 and 1874 in 1870 and established as a chapter in 1872.Fraternities
It was founded at Wesleyan University in 1870, and Beta Upsilon chapter was established at Brown in 1900.Fraternities
In 1870, at the request of Robinson, then president of Rochester Theological Institution, Hackett returned to teaching as professor of Biblical literature and New Testament exegesis.Hackett, Horatio B.
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.
Albert 1842 Harkness travelled to Europe again in 1870-71 and 1883-84 during leaves of absence.Harkness, Albert 1842
He entered Brown in 1899, following the footsteps of his father, Judson W. Hastings 1876, who had not planned to go to college at all, but had been persuaded by his principal at Suffield Academy, who was E. Benjamin Andrews 1870, later president of Brown.Hastings, William T.
Returning to the United States in 1870, John Hay went to work for Whitelaw Reid as editorial writer and night editor for the "New York Tribune."Hay, John
Wilfred Harold Munro 1870 was associate professor of history from 1891 to 1899 and professor of European history from 1899 to 1911.History
The end of the senior exhibitions was noted in an obituary of the Senior Exhibition which appeared in the first "Brown Paper" in November 1857, with these lines: In 1870 the "Brunonian" called for an end to the "obsolete custom," by which the exhibition speakers were obliged to appear in a gown in which "the speaker can make no gesture with grace, nor even stand at ease."Junior and Senior Exhibitions
Nathaniel French Davis 1870 returned to Brown in 1874 as instructor in mathematics and remained until 1915, being named professor of pure mathematics in 1890.Mathematics
Wilfred H. Munro was captain of the Class of 1870 baseball team which defeated the New England champion Lowells of Boston, 22 to 19, in a game played on June 17, 1868.Munro, Wilfred H.
Physics became a very popular study with the arrival in 1870 of both the well-liked Professor Blake and a Holtz Electrical Machine, from which, in a darkened room, the students observed with wonder the power of electricity.Physics
William Carey Poland's career at Brown began as instructor of Greek in 1870, continued as instructor of Latin and Greek from 1871 to 1875, assistant professor of Latin and Greek from 1876 to 1889, and associate professor of Greek from 1889 to 1892.Poland, William Carey
In 1870 the freshman crew lost two three-mile races, one to the Narragansetts on June 2, and one to Harvard on June 17, but then brought Brown her first boating victory in Worcester in an exciting race in which Brown recovered time lost by a collision with the Amherst boat which had crossed over the bow of the Brown boat and, by executing a spectacular turn, overtook Yale and Harvard to win in 19 minutes, 21 seconds, six lengths ahead of second place Yale.Rowing
First came the classes of 1870 through 1899 in caps and gowns of white and brown, then the classes of 1900 through 1905 in the Puritan garb of the first settlers of Providence, followed by the classes of 1906 through 1908 as Quakers in gray.Sesquicentennial celebration
Costumed representatives of special events came next, the crew of 1873, the 1870 baseball team, Colonial and early nineteenth-century gentlemen, and finally, those marchers of other days, a recreation of the Junior burial with coffin and books on their way to a "cremation."Sesquicentennial celebration
Tuition was increased at intervals, reaching $20 in 1801, $36 in 1827, $50 in 1864, and $75 in 1870.Tuition
His eldest son, Francis Wayland, Jr. 1846, became Dean of the Yale Law School, and his second son, Heman Lincoln Wayland 1849 became president of Franklin College in 1870.Wayland, Francis
In the year after his appointment, on June 29, 1870, he favored the guests at the president’s levee with a poem on Roger Williams, which suggested his spiritual presence on the occasion of the day: Whittier was the champion of admission to women to Brown.Whittier, John Greenleaf