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1873

  • By 1873 there were 25 students receiving the scholarships, six of them in the senior class.Agricultural lands
  • He reported in 1873 that he had delivered "a brief course of lectures to those members of the senior class who, late in the year, obtained agricultural scholarships.... For the purpose of illustration, one day, after the close of the course, was devoted to an examination of the farm of G. F. Wilson Esq., in East Providence; and another to dissections of neat stock, in the extensive slaughter-house of Mr. Comstock.Agricultural lands
  • Brown awarded him a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1873 and a Master of Arts in 1883.Bailey, William Whitman
  • William Patten 1818 (1867-1873), Benjamin F. Thomas 1830 (1874-1878) and Thomas Durfee 1846 (1879-1888) were all lawyers.Chancellors
  • In 1873-74 Bancroft introduced the reading of Chaucer with early English pronunciation and recommended the establishment of a professorship of Anglo-Saxon and early English, "a department now generally maintained in our leading colleges."English
  • 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
  • The society published the "Photeinian," a literary annual which appeared only twice, in 1873 and 1874.Fraternities
  • 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.
  • William Williams Keen was a trustee of Brown from 1873 to 1895 and a fellow from 1895 to 1932.Keen, William Williams
  • William Herbert Kenerson (1873-1966), was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, on December 9, 1873.Kenerson, William H.
  • The family lived in Florence and Genoa before returning to the United States in 1873.Langdon, Courtney
  • James Irving Manatt graduated from Iowa (now Grinnell) College in 1869 and received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1873.Manatt, James Irving
  • The building was heated by stoves which were replaced by the introduction of steam heat in 1886; gas was introduced into the building about 1873.Manning Hall
  • Jenks reported in 1873, "It is intended that the museum shall contain specimens illustrative of every branch taught in the institution ...Museum of Natural History
  • After the addition to Rhode Island Hall in 1873 provided more room for the museum, Jenks, still without funds for the Museum, added a few cases paid for by donors, and, by soliciting ten dollars each from seventeen persons, was almost able to meet the cost of $190 for mounted skeletons of a horse and a buffalo acquired in 1875.Museum of Natural History
  • Richard Olney was a Democrat and was elected to the state legislature in 1873, but was defeated for reelection and for other offices.Olney, Richard
  • After the collapse of the Sprague business in 1873, the house passed into other hands and was eventually purchased by I. Gifford Ladd.Orwig Music Center
  • 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.
  • The coeducational institution for students in art and design fulfilled, at least in part, a wish expressed by Ezekiel Gilman Robinson in 1873 that a scientific school should be established in Rhode Island for instruction in drawing, civil engineering, architecture, and fine arts.Rhode Island School of Design
  • In 1873 class crews at Brown competed against each other, but no crew was sent to Springfield.Rowing
  • 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
  • On his departure from Providence, Winship was honored by his literary colleagues, Herbert O. Brigham 1899, Howard M. Chapin ’08, William Eaton Foster 1873, and Harry Lyman Koopman, at a dinner at the University Club.Winship, George Parker