Encyclopedia Brunoniana

1871

  • Another Brown graduate who had an impact on black education was Joseph T. Robert 1828, a white ordained minister and holder of a medical degree, who took over the care of Augusta Institute for colored ministers in 1871 and moved with that institution when it merged with the Atlanta Baptist Seminary under his presidency.African Americans
  • In 1871 the state legislature had come to the conclusion that the instruction which the University was able to provide did not satisfy the requirements of the Morrill Act.Agricultural lands
  • Anne Crosby Emery Allinson (1871-1932), second dean (and first woman dean) of the Women’s College, was Miss Emery when she took office at the Women’s College in September 1900.Allinson, Anne Crosby Emery
  • Anne Crosby Emery Allinson was born in Hancock Point, Maine, on January 1, 1871.Allinson, Anne Crosby Emery
  • James Burrill Angell became president of the University of Vermont in 1866 and president of the University of Michigan in 1871.Angell, James Burrill
  • In 1871 Marshall Woods offered three thousand dollars for the establishment of a "Lectureship on the Fine Arts, and on their Application to the Mechanic Arts, or Industrial Pursuits."Art
  • In 1871 William Whitman Bailey went to New York to have a try at journalism.Bailey, William Whitman
  • A committee appointed by a meeting of the class secretaries, the members of which were Winslow Upton 1875, Robert P. Brown 1871, and Walter B. Jacobs 1882, had recommended the establishment of an alumni publication.BAM Brown Alumni Monthly
  • 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
  • "The Annual Illustrated Catalogue and Oarsman’s Manual" for 1871 described a boat house connected with the Brown University Boat Club as "located on the Seekonk River, at the foot of Angel (sic) Street.Boat House
  • The issue of 1871 and the final issue in 1872 were published by Delta Upsilon and Wayland Literary Societies.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
  • After his resignation from teaching in 1871, Chace traveled to Europe, and then returned and added to his civic responsibilities.Chace, George Ide
  • In 1871 and again in 1876 seniors requested an elective course, which became a regular course in 1878.Classics
  • Lindsay Todd Damon (1871-1940), professor of English, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on November 8, 1871.Damon, Lindsay Todd
  • Robert P. Brown 1871 in "Memories of Brown" quotes this description of Diman, "Professor Diman is a Unitarian, who hires a pew in Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church, preaches mostly in orthodox Congregational pulpits, is in warm sympathy with the faith of the liberal Jews, and teaches Catholicism in a Baptist College."Diman, Jeremiah Lewis
  • When the Tweed ring was smashed in 1871, Wilbour and his family sailed for France.Egyptology
  • In 1914-15 in connection with the 150th anniversary a major exhibition was held in the Engineering Building, tracing the development of the steam engine (with models of Watts and Corliss engines and a steam turbine), the development of the internal combustion engine (with the Brayton engine purchased by Professor Blake in 1871 and engines lent by the Cadillac and Packard Motor Companies), and the development of the telephone, to which Professors Blake and Pierce contributed so much by developing useable receivers.Engineering
  • In 1871, when tuition was raised from $50 to $75, the faculty was authorized to extend abatement of tuition amounting to $25 to up to two-fifths of the students.Financial aid
  • Chi Psi (Lambda chapter) existed at Brown from 1860 to 1871, at which time it had only two members.Fraternities
  • The popularity of geology as a study was shown when the class of 1871, by some circumstance deprived of the usual course in junior year, contrived to have Professor Chace deliver a series of lectures for them.Geology
  • Frederic Poole Gorham (1871-1933), professor of bacteriology, was born in Providence on April 29, 1871.Gorham, Frederic P.
  • The first volume of "The Life of Nathanael Greene," was published in 1867, followed by the second and third volumes in 1871.Greene, George W.
  • Nathaniel P. Hill was mayor of Black Hawk, Colorado, in 1871, a member of the Colorado territorial council in 1872 and 1873, and United States Senator from Colorado from 1879 to 1885.Hill, Nathaniel P.
  • In 1871 Diman’s annual report mentioned the increased attention being given to the history of Political Opinion, and in 1872 he announced that the class was responding to a new method of reading widely instead of being confined to a single text and of writing every four weeks an "elaborate historical essay."History
  • Samuel Gridley Howe went to Crete with supplies during the insurrection against Turkey in 1871.Howe, Samuel Gridley
  • John Whipple Potter Jenks was principal of the academy from 1848 to 1871.Jenks, John Whipple Potter
  • 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
  • After college, Munro taught at De Veaux College in Niagara Falls, was associate principal of St. Mark’s School in Salt Lake City in 1871, spent some time in Central and South America, was principal of the Academic Institute in Le Roy, New York, from 1875 to 1879, and returned to De Veaux College as president from 1881 to 1889.Munro, Wilfred H.
  • In 1871, a former student with an interest in natural history, John Whipple Potter Jenks 1838, on resigning as principal of Pierce Academy, offered his services in connection with the natural history collection.Museum of Natural History
  • In 1871 the family of the recently deceased Dr. William Blanding 1801 deposited his cabinet of minerals, shells, fossils, relics and coins, numbering 7,769, in the museum.Museum of Natural History
  • In 1871 the club was an added attraction at the Junior Exhibition.Musical Clubs
  • Progress was reported in the "Brunonian" of July, 1871: Women students had their own musical organizations.Musical Clubs
  • Meanwhile, Alpheus S. Packard was state entomologist of Massachusetts from 1871 to 1873 and a member of the United States Entomological Commission from 1877 to 1882.Packard, Alpheus S.
  • 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
  • When approached again in 1871, Ezekiel Gilman Robinson reconsidered.Robinson, Ezekiel Gilman
  • In his autobiography, Robinson wrote, "In the spring of 1871 there came again a proposal that I should accept the presidency of Brown University.Robinson, Ezekiel Gilman
  • At the intercollegiate regatta of July 21, 1871, held for the first time at Ingleside on the Connecticut River, the Harvard freshman crew beat the Brown freshmen, who might have lost even if it had not been necessary to alter course to avoid hitting a sight-seeing barge.Rowing
  • The 1871 crew was under the charge of John Blew, a New York oarsman, and N. R. Knight of Providence was the trainer of the freshmen.Rowing
  • Tougaloo began when the American Missionary Association bought 500 acres of land with an antebellum mansion north of Jackson, Mississippi, in 1869 and acquired a charter from the state in 1871.Tougaloo College
  • After his graduation from the Phillips School in 1869 at an age his father considered too young for college, Winslow Upton continued his study of music and other academic subjects in Boston for two years before entering Brown in 1871.Upton, Winslow
  • Benjamin Ide Wheeler studied at New London Academy in New Hampshire and in 1871 entered Brown which he found to be "a cozy college and small, but for us it became great, because in the compactness of its life all its resources were available to use with a minimum of waste."Wheeler, Benjamin Ide
  • Alonzo Williams then taught Greek, Latin, and German at the Friends’ School in Providence from 1871 to 1876.Williams, Alonzo
  • George Parker Winship (1871-1952), librarian of the John Carter Brown Library, was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, in 1871.Winship, George Parker