John Hope 1894 taught at Roger Williams University and at Morehouse College and was president of Morehouse and of Atlanta University.African Americans
John William Beverly 1894 was president of Alabama State Normal School, from which he himself had graduated before he came to Brown.African Americans
Of this venture John Hope said in his class day oration in 1894, "From this small beginning has grown a strong school in the state of Georgia.African Americans
A graduate of Morehouse College, he was encouraged to apply to Brown by John Hope 1894, who, as Nabrit said, "had a fantasy that one of his students would go back to Brown and indicate that he had developed a college – Morehouse – that enabled students to have the strengths to make it at an Ivy League school like Brown."African Americans
In its January 1894 session the General Assembly approved an agreement in which Brown would repay the $50,000 received from the sale of the land in Kansas and assume the expense of educating the present holders of the state scholarships, and in return would receive $40,000 in compensation for the education of earlier state scholars and would be relieved of the responsibility for agricultural education assumed in connection with the Morrill Act of 1863.Agricultural lands
Elisha Benjamin Andrews's later works, the four-volume set of "History of the United States," published in 1894, and "The Last Quarter-Century of the United States," in 1896, were written for popular consumption and were not up to his former standards.Andrews, Elisha Benjamin
Baseball revived in the early 1890s with Fred Woodcock 1891 and Frank Sexton 1893 pitching and Fred Tenney 1894 as catcher.Baseball
Ben Johnson 1893, H. Anthony Dyer 1894, and Guy A. Andrews 1895 were also named to the board of editors.BDH Brown Daily Herald
After Bennett’s departure, James Franklin Collins was curator of the herbarium from 1894 to 1911, and curator of the museum of economic botany in 1894-95.Botany
Also admitted to pages were the newly arrived women students, and in 1893-94 the name of Mary Emma Woolley 1894 appeared in the list of editors (although she was not included in their photograph).Brown Magazine
Contributors who later pursued literary careers were editor Henry Robinson Palmer 1890, pageant writer William Chauncy Langdon 1892, editor and dramatist Albert Ellsworth Thomas 1894, professor and author Dallas Lore Sharp 1895, and newspaperman F. Severance Johnson 1899.Brown Magazine
This valuable work contained the names of the faculty from the beginning of the college listed by rank and then in order of appointment, and lists of graduates for the classes of 1769 through 1894, with biographical sketches.Catalogues
John Hope 1894 was president of Morehouse College and Atlanta University; John William Beverly 1894 was president of Alabama State Normal School; and Mary Emma Woolley 1894 was president of Mount Holyoke College.College and University Presidents
The dormitories were named for Anne Crosby Emery Allinson, second dean of Pembroke College, and Mary Emma Woolley, one of the first two women graduates in 1894, who became president of Mount Holyoke College.Emery and Woolley Halls
In 1894 a four-year course in architecture began and six new courses in freehand drawing were offered, making use of the second story of Manning Hall, which had been adapted for a drawing room.Engineering
John E. Hill was appointed instructor in 1894 and served as professor of civil engineering until 1934.Engineering
In 1889Walter G. Everett became instructor in Greek and Latin at Brown, but changed his subject when he was named associate professor of philosophy in 1894.Everett, Walter G.
The coaches and their records (assuming that the early coaches were there for the whole season, which may or may not have been so) were: Mr. Howland (4-5-1) in 1892; William Odlin (6-3-0) in 1893; Mr. Norton (10-5-0) in 1894; Wallace Moyle (18-15-2) from 1895 to 1897; Edward North Robinson (140-82-12) in his three times as coach from 1898 to 1901, from 1904 to 1907, and from 1910 to 1925; John A. Gammons (17-10-2) in 1902, 1908, and 1909; David Fultz (5-4-1) in 1903; DeOrmond "Tuss" McLaughry (76-58-5) from 1926 to 1940; J. Neil "Skip" Stahley (14-11-0) from 1941 to 1943; Charles A.Football
Henry T. Fowler taught at Norwich Academy in 1891-92, was general secretary of the Y.M.C.A. at Yale from 1892 to 1894, and assistant in biblical literature at Yale in 1895-96.Fowler, Henry T.
Alpha Tau Omega was established in September 1894.Fraternities
The arrangement which led to the acquisition of the house was made by George W. Gardner 1894, his wife, Jessie Barker Gardner 1896, and their friend since college days, Vice-PresidentAlbert D. Mead.Gardner House
Henry Ames Barker 1893 was the author, with A. E. Thomas 1894, of a play, "In Colony Times," for the sesquicentennial celebration of the University in 1914.Gardner House
John F. Greene graduated from Brown in 1891 and the next fall was made an instructor in Greek, which he taught until 1894, when he asked to be assigned to the teaching of Latin.Greene, John F.
John E. Hill came to Brown in 1894 as instructor in charge of the civil engineering courses, which were being placed in a separate department.Hill, John E.
Brown awarded him a master of arts degree by special vote in 1894.Hill, Nathaniel P.
Before that time ice polo, which was played with short sticks with rounded ends and a rubber ball, was popular in the United States and had been enjoyed informally by the colleges for several years, and at Brown was taken up in the winter of 1894 by a team which within a week won three games.Hockey
In the summer of 1894 some American and Canadian tennis players who met at a tournament in Niagara Falls were comparing the Canadian game of ice hockey with the American game of ice polo.Hockey
A series of games was arranged, to be held in Montreal, Ottawa, Kingston, and Toronto during the Christmas vacation of 1894-95.Hockey
The United States team members included Brown men Byron Watson 1897, William Jones 1896, George Matteson 1896, and Alexander Meiklejohn1893, then a graduate student, Yale men A. C. Foote and Malcolm Chace (who had transferred from Brown to Yale in 1894), F. H. Clarkson of Harvard, and Billy Larned of Columbia.Hockey
On Class Day, June 15, 1894, John Hope delivered the class oration, in which he invited his classmates "to observe on this occasion, if we never have before, that to have been at Brown University is to have drunk in the unpretentious, unobtrusive, yet all pervading idea of liberty and brotherhood; and to have acquired a breadth of culture which means the erasure of all lines, be they of race, or sect, or class, and recognizes no claim other than that which highest manhood makes."Hope, John
A George Street dormitory which had been named Maxcy House (and was renamed Howell House in 1894 after Maxcy Hall was built) was torn down for the building of the John Carter Brown Library.Howell House
John Whipple Potter Jenks (1819-1894), director of Brown’s museum of natural history, was born in West Boylston, Massachusetts, on May 1, 1819.Jenks, John Whipple Potter
John Whipple Potter Jenks stayed on the job until his death on September 26, 1894, the particulars of which are described by Walter Lee Munro 1879:Jenks, John Whipple Potter
Nevertheless, no Jewish student seems to have entered or even applied for over a century, when Israel Strauss of the class of 1894 became Brown’s first known Jewish student.Jews
Lida Shaw King graduated from Vassar College in 1890, and received a master of arts degree from Brown in 1894, the first year that any degrees were awarded to women.King, Lida Shaw
However, after the death of Jenks in 1894, no more funds were appropriated for the curator or the assistant, and the Museum was no longer viewed as an asset.Museum of Natural History
In 1909-10 Arthur Ware Locke (Harvard 1894), who had taught at St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire, and had studied in Berlin and Paris, was was instructor in music, teaching the same course.Music
After 1894 there was an annual midwinter banquet, which after several years was succeeded by informal initiation luncheons.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
At the time Andrews recommended walking for exercise, but by 1894 arrangements had been made for the use of a downtown gymnasium by the students.Physical Education
"Brown Verse," subtitled "Selections from Verse published in the Brunonian and The Brown Magazine; including Extracts from Class Poem," was compiled and edited by the Brunonian Board of 1893-94 in 1894.Poetry
"College Hill Verse," "Being Selections from Student Publications of Brown University, 1894-1904," was compiled and arranged by Ilsley Boone 1904 in 1904.Poetry
For several years beginning in 1894 two law courses were conducted by young graduates of the University, one in elementary law by Elmer Almy Wilcox 1891 and one in Roman law by Theodore Francis Green1887.Political Science
A course in political theory was introduced in 1893, followed by a course in diplomacy in 1894-95, one in current political theory and practice in 1895-96, and one in municipal functions in 1897.Political Science
In the spring of 1894 Ezekiel Gilman Robinson preached at Vassar College, of which he had been a trustee since its founding, and shortly afterward became ill and was taken to the Boston city hospital, where he died on June 13.Robinson, Ezekiel Gilman
Sailing began at Brown in February 1894 with the organization of a Yacht Club composed of students who owned or leased yachts and other interested students.Sailing
The vice-commodore was William T. Dorrance 1894, owner of the yacht Cingeria, and the secretary-treasurer was John W. Angell 1895, owner of the yacht Nadir.Sailing
James Seth was appointed associate professor of natural theology at Brown in 1892, and professor of philosophy and natural theology in 1894.Seth, James
In 1936 Henry D. 1894 Sharpe was named chairman of the University Council, a group formed to work out a long-term program for increasing Brown’s financial resources.Sharpe, Henry D. 1894
Henry D. 1894 Sharpe donated over $200,000 to the Housing and Development Campaign in the 1940s, and at his suggestion his donation was the principal funding of the new classroom building, Whitehall, which was such a radical departure from the traditional architecture of the campus.Sharpe, Henry D. 1894
When Henry D. 1894 Sharpe died on May 17, 1954, his largest public bequest was to Brown.Sharpe, Henry D. 1894
It began by featuring extemporaneous speeches, the first ones being "The Repeal of the Silver Bill" by Mary Emma Woolley 1894, the first president of the fraternity, and "The Trouble in Morocco" by Martha Clarke 1895.Sororities
In 1894 the house at 96 George Street was named Messer House, the house on Benevolent Street was named Pease House, and an additional dormitory next to Messer House was named Maxcy House.Student housing
Fred Hovey 1890, a future national champion who won the U.S. Doubles in 1893 and 1894 and the U.S. Singles in 1895, won the college championship in 1887 and successfully defended it against William R. Weeden 1891, the winner of the 1888 tournament.Tennis
Dramatics had flourished as an extra-curricular activity under Professors Thomas Crosby, Jr. 1894, Benjamin W. Brown ’19, and Janice Van De Water Brown, and continued under Mrs. Brown and James Barnhill after the death of Ben Brown in 1955.Theatre Arts
After graduation in 1894, he stayed on as an instructor in English and earned a master’s degree in 1895.Thomas Crosby
The remaining treasurers have been Arnold Buffum Chace1866 from 1882 to 1900; Cornelius S. Sweetland 1866 from 1900 to 1923; Frank W. Matteson 1892 from 1923 to 1933, Edwin Aylsworth Burlingame ’14, acting treasurer from 1933 to 1934; Harold C. Field 1894 from 1934 to 1949; George Burton Hibbert from 1949 to 1950; Gordon L. Parker ’18 from 1950 to 1965; Patrick J. James ’32 from 1965 to 1970; Joseph W. Ress ’26 from 1970 to 1979; Andrew M. Hunt ’51 from 1979 to 1988; and Marie J. Langlois ’64 since 1988.Treasurer