"Articles of Organization of the Alumni Association of Brown University" were adopted on June 25, 1872.Associated Alumni
President Caswell was asked to deliver a baccalaureate sermon by the Class of 1872, the class which was entering college when he assumed the presidency and was leaving as he retired.Baccalaureate
The freshman team of 1872 took an unprecedented tour in July of 1869 to play against five other colleges.Baseball
George Wyllys Benedict (1872-1966), professor of English, was born in Burlington, Vermont, on January 12, 1872.Benedict, George W.
Albert Arnold Bennett (1888-1971), professor of mathematics, was born on June 2, 1888 in Yokohama, Japan, where his father, Albert A. Bennett 1872, was a missionary and president of the Baptist Theological Seminary.Bennett, Albert A. ’10
The issue of 1871 and the final issue in 1872 were published by Delta Upsilon and Wayland Literary Societies.Caduceus
After that, annual meetings were held and led to a permanent association in 1872.Caswell, Alexis
Caswell resigned in 1872 at the age of 73, having, in the words of Professor John Larkin Lincoln, "administered the Presidential office in a spirit of manly independence, and stood firmly, at whatever cost of personal convenience and personal interest, to the responsibilities which devolved upon him."Caswell, Alexis
Compulsory chapel attendance on Sunday was abolished by President Robinson soon after his arrival in 1872, and later he changed another rule, that students should attend public worship twice on Sunday, by announcing that "once was enough."Chapel
The Newport Rogers Professorship of Chemistry was founded by a bequest of William Sanford Rogers in 1872.Chemistry
Brown men who were college presidents in foreign countries are Josiah Nelson Cushing 1862 of the Baptist College in Rangoon, Albert Arnold Bennett 1872 of the Baptist Theological Seminary of Japan, Wilbur Brown Parshley 1886 of Yokohama Theological Seminary, and Francois Jacobus de Villiers of Dower College, South Africa.College and University Presidents
In 1872 there were 52 scholarships available, fourteen of them assigned by the Corporation, the remainder by donors or their representatives, and in addition five students were receiving free rooms for keeping the rolls of attendance at chapel.Financial aid
Sigma Chi (Beta Nu chapter) began as Kappa chapter of Chi Phi with six charter members in 1872, and became Beta Nu chapter of Sigma Chi in 1914.Fraternities
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
In 1872 Greene became a non-resident professor of American history at Cornell University for a year, and may be said to have held the first chair in American history in the country.Greene, George W.
He had three sons, Frank Bartlett Greene 1872, the son of his first wife, and John Stimson Greene 1882 and Samuel Stuart Greene 1883, the sons of his second.Greene, Samuel Stillman
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
In the early days of the University sick students were sometimes cared for at the homes of local residents, and in 1872 Charles S. Bradley 1838 had paid for a free bed for Brown University at Rhode Island Hospital.Infirmary
In 1872 John Whipple Potter Jenks came to Brown as curator of the museum, bringing some of his own collections with him.Jenks, John Whipple Potter
On the other hand, when the junior class announced early in 1872 its plan to cremate Chemistry as a change from the usual victims, the professor of chemistry, John Howard Appleton, was upset by this choice, because he feared injury to the reputation of the department and his text-book.Junior Burials
Alpheus S. Packard gained international recognition in his field, as evidenced by his election in 1872 to the Imperial Zoological-Botanical Society of Vienna, in 1875 to the Société Royale des Sciences de Liègge, Belgium, in 1891 to the Society of Friends of Natural Science of Moscow, and in 1901 to the Linnaen Society of London.Packard, Alpheus S.
In the intervening years of 1867 to 1872, George Ide Chace took over in the place of Alexis Caswell, a mathematician who had come out of retirement to serve as president.Philosophy
Two members of Blake’s first class, juniors John J. Holbrook 1872 and Edwin A.Physics
Herring 1872 were inspired by his lectures to install a telegraphic line between their rooms at opposite ends of University Hall.Physics
A plaque just inside the 1872 Gate on Prospect Street commemorates its location.President’s House
In his annual report for 1872, Robinson described his senior course, "In Intellectual Philosophy the attention of the class was directed to so much of psychology as pertains to the science of the mind, and to the fundamental principles of ontology, or metaphysics proper."Psychology
When an addition was built in 1900 and used for other purposes as engineering instruction, the name was changed to Rogers Hall in honor of William Sanford Rogers, donor of $50,000 in 1872 to endow the Newport Rogers Professorship of Chemistry.Rogers Hall
The Rowing Association of American Colleges took over the regulation of the regatta, and at a meeting in Worcester in April 1872 set the date of the regatta and also decided that students in the scientific departments of universities were not eligible for university crews.Rowing