In 1880 Carl Barus was engaged to take charge of the purely physical work of the newly organized United States Geological Survey, which was directed by Clarence King.Barus, Carl
J. Lee Richmond 1880 pitched the first perfect game in professional baseball, a 1-0 victory for Worcester over Cleveland, on June 12, 1880, four days before his graduation.Baseball
Walter Angell 1880 pointed out some time later that the Worcester-Cleveland game was actually Richmond’s second game of the day, since at about 4:30 A.M. he had taken part in the traditional early morning game which followed the seniors’ class supper, and then hopped the train to Worcester.Baseball
In November 1880 James Lawrence Bennett, a local botanist, donated his herbarium of about 13,000 specimens.Botany
The lower campus, transformed through the efforts of Professor Samuel Stillman Greene from swamp to ball field in the spring of 1880 and named Lincoln Field, was the site of athletic events until the advent of Andrews Field in 1899.Campus
The old South well was abandoned in the summer of 1880, and the pump which was near the old president’s house on the front campus was removed.Campus
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 Andrews1870, 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
In 1879Jeremiah Lewis Diman delivered twenty lectures at Johns Hopkins University, and in 1880 he delivered twelve lectures on theism at the Lowell Institute in Boston.Diman, Jeremiah Lewis
In 1880 he began his visits to Egypt, and in 1886 acquired his own sailing dahabiyeh, named "The Seven Hathors," in which he and his family sailed on the Nile in the winters.Egyptology
Brown played one intercollegiate game in 1880, which Yale won with a score of five tries and eight goals to nothing.Football
In March 1880 Kappa chapter was reestablished at Brown by initiating forty members of the local Phi Kappa Alpha society.Fraternities
The two younger sons were members of the baseball team at Brown, and thus it was that in 1880 Professor Greene undertook the supervision of the laying out of Lincoln Field as a baseball field, investing his time, money, and manual labor.Greene, Samuel Stillman
Diman died suddenly at the beginning of the second term of 1880-81.History
Lincoln Field was laid out in the spring of 1880 under the supervision of Professor Samuel S. Greene, who had two sons on the college baseball team.Lincoln Field
Later Jeremiah Lewis Diman, professor of history and political economy from 1864 to 1880, included Roman, international, and constitutional law in his history course.Political Science
Barnas Sears (1802-1880), fifth president of Brown University, was born in Sandisfield in the Berkshires, Massachusetts, on November 19, 1802.Sears, Barnas
Barnas Sears died on July 9, 1880 in Saratoga Springs, New York, where he had gone to improve his health and also to address the American Association of Teachers.Sears, Barnas
Angell House at 15 Keene Street, the former home of Walter Angell 1880, was given by Stephen O. Metcalf in 1938 and used as a Pembroke College dormitory.Student housing
The events were a rope pull between the Classes of 1879 and 1880, the standing broad jump, the running broad jump, the standing high jump, the running high jump, the shot put, the hundred yards dash, the three-legged race, the wheelbarrow race, and the base ball throw.Track
After a short stint in Detroit with the Army Engineer Corps’ Lake Survey, Upton became a computer at the Naval Observatory in Washington in 1880.Upton, Winslow