Encyclopedia Brunoniana

1885

  • The remodelling as an infirmary was made possible through the gift of $330,000 by Charles Henry Hare 1885 and $60,000 from other sources.Andrews House
  • 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
  • Chapin’s course at first was taught in the junior year, but in 1885 was shortened to two hours per week and offered to sophomores, whose lack of preparation in chemistry and physics disturbed Chapin, as did the short time allotted.Biology
  • John Carter Brown 1816 had two sons, John Nicholas Brown 1885 and Harold Brown 1886, both of whom died in May 1900, leaving their estates to the three-month old John Nicholas Brown, Jr. Young John Nicholas led a secluded life as a child, partly because of his frailty, which may have been caused by growth.Brown family
  • The campus buildings which are associated with the Brown family are University Hall, which was built by Nicholas Brown and Company, Hope College and Manning Hall, which were given by Nicholas Brown 1786, Rhode Island Hall, to which Nicholas Brown 1786 made a generous donation, Robinson Hall, which was built as a library with a bequest from John Carter Brown 1816, the John Carter Brown Library, built with a bequest from John Nicholas Brown 1885 to house the collection begun by John Carter Brown 1816, Carrie Tower, erected by Paul Bajnotti as a memorial to his wife, Carrie Mathilde Brown, daughter of Nicholas Brown 1811, and the Annmary Brown Memorial erected by Rush C. Hawkins as a memorial to his wife, Annmary Brown Hawkins, also the daughter of Nicholas Brown 1811.Brown family
  • George Ide Chace (1808-1885), professor of many subjects and president "ad interim" in 1867-68, was born on February 19, 1808 in Lancaster, Massachusetts, where he lived on a farm.Chace, George Ide
  • George Ide Chace died in Providence on April 29, 1885.Chace, George Ide
  • Zechariah Chafee, Jr. (1885-1957), University Professor at Harvard University and champion of civil liberties, was born in Providence on December 7, 1885.Chafee, Zechariah Õ07
  • In 1885 the course was shortened to two hours per week and offered to sophomores, whose lack of preparation made Charles V. Chapin's teaching difficult.Chapin, Charles V.
  • Nelson Lambert, "Nels" of Faunce House, was born in Guadaloupe in 1885, worked in ships traveling to Japan and China, Australia, and Europe, and lived and worked for a time in New Caledonia and Tahiti.College servants
  • His son, John Byron Diman 1885, was ordained in the Episcopal Church and founded St. George’s School in Middletown.Diman, Jeremiah Lewis
  • Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society founded at Lehigh University in 1885, established Rhode Island Alpha at Brown on February 12, 1954, at which time 128 alumni members were initiated.Engineering
  • Walter G. Everett graduated from Brown in 1885, after which he was a private tutor in Providence for four years.Everett, Walter G.
  • 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.
  • The older son, John Nicholas Brown 1885, inherited his father’s interest in Americana, and it was to him that his mother deeded the collection in 1898.John Carter Brown Library
  • In 1885 the Junior Burial was replaced by a pow-wow at Messer Field, at which the main event was the mock wedding of Captain John Smith and Pocahontas.Junior Burials
  • Courses in Italian and Spanish were offered to seniors in 1885.Modern Languages
  • At the dedication of the building on November 22, 1897, Sarah E. Doyle delivered an address tracing the history of the movement for collegiate education for women at Brown University from 1885 when a society of women asked the Corporation to modify its laws to admit women.Pembroke Hall
  • Among the orators and poets have been Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1836, George William Curtis in 1854, Edward Everett Hale in 1885, and Woodrow Wilson in 1903.Phi Beta Kappa
  • Walter Goodnow Everett 1885, after several years of teaching Latin, was appointed associate professor of philosophy in 1894 and remained with the department until his retirement in 1930.Philosophy
  • In 1885 Professor Alpheus Packard reported the laboratory facilities much improved by the acquisition of the room at the rear of the Museum, from which the portraits had been removed to Sayles Hall.Rhode Island Hall
  • Lorenzo Sears was ordained a priest of the Episcopal Church in 1865, and served as pastor in churches in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire, until 1885, when he gave up the ministry and became professor of rhetoric and English literature at the University of Vermont.Sears, Lorenzo
  • In 1885 James Seth was appointed professor of philosophy at Dalhousie College.Seth, James
  • B. Diman 1885.Tennis
  • Benjamin Ide Wheeler received his Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg in 1885.Wheeler, Benjamin Ide
  • Benjamin Ide Wheeler was instructor in German at Harvard from 1885 to 1886, professor of comparative philology and Greek at Cornell from 1886 to 1899.Wheeler, Benjamin Ide