Arriving at Brown in September 1883, Andrews taught the history course and electives in Roman law, political economy, and international law.Andrews, Elisha Benjamin
He had visited in Vienna, Berlin, London, and Glasgow from 1883 to 1885, while his wife studied Semitic languages with famous German professors.Arnold Laboratory
Timothy Whiting Bancroft suffered a breakdown in 1883 but, after traveling in the South and in Europe, returned to his teaching duties, which became increasingly burdensome.Bancroft, Timothy Whiting
The herbaria were increased in 1883 by the purchase of the collection of James F. Robinson of Manchester, England, and the gift of the herbarium of W. W. Ayres of Wickford, Rhode Island.Botany
The family was driven back toward the East by grasshoppers and drought in 1883, and his father, the Reverend Henry Wheaton Brown, served as a Methodist pastor in Wisconsin.Brown, Charles Wilson
George Ide Chace was a trustee of Butler Hospital and Rhode Island Hospital, and from 1874 to 1883 was chairman of the State Board of Charities and Corrections, directing the state institutions in Cranston.Chace, George Ide
Edmund B. Delabarre left after his freshman year, as his family’s move to Conway, Massachusetts made it more practical for him to attend Amherst College, where he graduated in 1883.Delabarre, Edmund B.
An editorial in the "Brunonian" of February 24, 1883 complained of the poor provision for instruction in the English Department, "One sadly overworked mortal is compelled to give instruction in composition and rhetoric, including argumentation, Anglo-Saxon language and literature, with the development of the English language, English literature, Chaucer and Shakspere, to say nothing of being obliged to wade through four hundred sophomore essays, and to writhe beneath an indefinite number of junior orations."English
President Robinson, recommending in his 1883 report that the duties of the department should be divided between a professor of rhetoric and a professor of English literature, wrote, "the most radical defect to-day in our American colleges is a want of due attention to rhetorical studies, understanding by these studies not only practice in the arts of composition and of speech ... but also that correctness of literary taste, that knowledge of English literature and that appreciation of its riches, without which facility and skill in the use of our tongue are never attainable."English
In 1876 Delta Phi decided not to initiate any more members for a few years and was once more inactive until it was revived in 1881 through the efforts of Franklin E. Brooks 1883.Fraternities
The versatile Greene went on to serve as professor of mathematics and civil engineering from 1855 to 1864, and professor of natural philosophy and astronomy from 1864 to 1883, with a change of title to professor of mathematics and astronomy in 1875.Greene, Samuel Stillman
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
Walter B. Jacobs taught in the classical department of Providence High School from 1883 to 1898, when he was made principal of the new Hope Street High School, a post he held until 1901.Jacobs, Walter B.
In 1883 the juniors chose to bury the marking system, a decision for which they were commended by the "Brunonian" for continuing the tradition of the burial without the "former offensive features" which disturbed the faculty.Junior Burials
In 1883 Harry Lyman Koopman became a cataloger at Cornell University, a job he subsequently held at Columbia, Rutgers and the University of Vermont.Koopman, Harry Lyman
In 1883 the library acquired books from the library of Joseph J. Cooke, who bequeathed to Brown, and to several other colleges, $5,000 to be spent at auction sales of his books.Library
In 1883 Henry P. Manning graduated from Brown, having won the Hartshorn premium for entrance mathematics, the Howell premium for the highest record in mathematics and natural philosophy, and a Carpenter premium for "ability, character and attainment."Manning, Henry P.
Henry Parker Manning 1883 introduced previously unavailable courses in higher mathematics at Brown, when he returned after earning his Ph.D. degree at Johns Hopkins in 1891.Mathematics
After due consideration it was decided in 1883 that candidates for the Ph.B. degree were eligible for election.Phi Beta Kappa
In a lighter vein, Albert Gorton Greene1820 wrote "Old Grimes" while he was a student, William M. Thayer 1843 wrote "The Bachelor’s Soliloquy," and Charles M. Sheldon 1883 wrote "I Want to be a Student."Poetry
James Seth studied at the Universities of Leipzig, Jena, and Berlin, and in 1883 became assistant to Professor Campbell Fraser in Edinburgh.Seth, James
Some of the songs written in celebration of Brown were "Mother Dear, Brunonia" and "Hail, Brunonia," both with words by Henry R. Palmer 1890, "On the Chapel Steps," by Joel N. Eno 1883 and George C. Gow 1884, "Bruno," by A. G. Chaffee ’02, "God Bless Our University," with words by Henry R. Palmer 1890 and music by Jules Jordan, and "Bring the Victory to Brown," by Donald Jackson ’09.Songs
In the next two years there were several additional clubs, and on April 14, 1883, the Brown University Lawn Tennis Association was formed.Tennis
The officers of the association were Abram Barker 1883, H. B. Gardner 1884, and J.Tennis
Lawrence C. Wroth, in his unpublished manuscript, "The Construction of the College Edifice, 1770-1772, described the ensuing plans: In 1883 the interior of the building was renovated with the help of the funds left over from the building of Slater Hall.University Hall
The "Brunonian of February 10, 1883 came out against the expenditure of $45,000 for this purpose when "it would be far better to expend this sum in the erection of a new hall than in repairing the present dilapidated structure.University Hall
In May of 1883 Winslow Upton accompanied a group of scientists to Carolina Island in the Pacific to view a solar eclipse, an event which resulted in his writing "The Carolina Island Opera.Upton, Winslow
Plumbing was introduced into the basement of University Hall after the renovation of the building in 1883.Well
Wilson died in 1883 and the bequest was paid in 1887.Wilson Hall