After study at the University of Leipzig, Anne Crosby Emery Allinson returned to Bryn Mawr to receive her Ph.D. degree in 1896, writing a thesis, "The Historical Present in Early Latin."Allinson, Anne Crosby Emery
Charlotte Tillinghast 1896 was elected temporary president, and the next year became the first president of the permanent organization.Alumnae Association
Starred in later editions were anatomists Edgar Allen ’15, George E. Coghill 1896, and Victor E. Emmel ’04 Sc.M.American Men of Science
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
In the summer of 1896 a few of his personal letters, which were published, indicated that Elisha Benjamin Andrews had adopted the position that the United States should begin the free coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen ounces of silver to one ounce of gold, without waiting for the cooperation of other countries.Andrews, Elisha Benjamin
When this issue became paramount in the presidential election campaign of 1896, Andrews was far away in Europe, but was being freely quoted to the dismay of Corporation members who felt that his views were adversely affecting the prospects of the University.Andrews, Elisha Benjamin
In 1896 music, which was taught by Joseph N. Ashton, was also added to the department.Art
Frank W. Very was professor "pro tempore" of astronomy and director of Ladd Observatory in 1896-97, while Upton was in Peru working for the Harvard College Observatory.Astronomy
The Brown team, defeated only by Holy Cross and Harvard, won 27 of 31 games in 1896 for the college baseball championship of the country.Baseball
Biology courses for women students were traditionally taught by a woman, beginning with Ada Wing, who was appointed instructor in 1896 and later named assistant professor of physiology and sanitary science.Biology
Winthrop J. V. Osterhout 1893 was instructor in the department from 1893 to 1895, and Haven Metcalf 1896 from 1896 to 1899.Botany
The first degree of Civil Engineer was awarded in 1892, and the first degree of Mechanical Engineer in 1896.Degrees
Appointed associate professor of psychology in 1891 and promoted to full professor in 1896, Edmund B. Delabarre was Brown’s first professor of that subject.Delabarre, Edmund B.
Harrison (Harry) Edward Farnsworth (1896-1989), professor of physics, was born in Ripon, Wisconsin, on March 24, 1896.Farnsworth, Harrison E.
Brown was beginning to take football seriously and acquired a coach, Mr. Howland, in 1892, a year marked by a victory over Wesleyan, 6-0, on a touchdown scored by freshman fullback Edward North Robinson 1896 (future Brown coach) with only ten seconds to play.Football
For the next three years Brown had three different coaches, and successful seasons with the playing of William Burr Hopkins 1897, Charles D. Millard 1897, William F. Donovan 1897, and 140-pound Charles McCarthy 1896, who scored Brown’s first touchdown against Harvard (although Brown lost the game).Football
The 1896 team featured John "Daff" Gammons 1898, Dave Fultz 1898, Brown’s first Walter Camp All-American, and also John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 1897 as manager.Football
For two years after his graduation in 1896, he coached the University of Nebraska football team before returning to Brown to coach from 1898 to 1901.Football
Brown men who have been elected to the Football Hall of Fame are John W. Heisman 1891, DeOrmond McLaughry, Frederick D. Pollard ’19, Edward North Robinson 1896, and Wallace Wade ’17.Football
Henry T. Fowler taught at Knox College from 1896 until 1901, when he came to Brown as professor of biblical literature and history.Fowler, Henry T.
Delta Tau Delta (Beta chapter) was established in 1896.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
John E. Hill's only book, "Shades and Shadows and Perspectives," was published in 1896.Hill, John E.
On February 22 a team lead by Malcolm Chace 1896 and Alexander Meiklejohn1893 (who had already graduated) played two twenty-minute halves against the Cambridge Polo Team, composed of mostly of Harvard men and considered the champion amateur team of Massachusetts, at the Ten Mile River and won 4-0.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
In 1896 Harvard defeated Brown 5-4 in ice polo on Spy Pond in Arlington, and the next winter Harvard won again 5-0 in Roger Williams Park.Hockey
Lieutenant William J. Pardee was professor of military tactics from 1892 to 1895, and was succeeded by Lieutenant John Baxter in 1895-96 and Captain Cunliffe H. Murray from 1896 to 1898.Military education
The plan for such a wooded retreat for members of the university community had been conceived by Clinton C. White ’00, President of the Brown Club of Rhode Island, and Professor W. H. Kenerson 1896.Outing Reservation
In 1896-97, when constitutional revision came up in Rhode Island, one course became a mock convention to design a constitution for the state.Political Science
Otis E. Randall was assistant professor of mathematics and civil engineering in 1891-92, associate professor of mechanical drawing from 1892 to 1896, and professor of applied mechanics from 1896 until his retirement in 1930.Randall, Otis E.
The Registrars of the Women’s College and Pembroke College were Emma Bradford Stanton 1896 from 1897 to 1932, Mildred Williamson Cull ’29 from 1932 to 1938, Esther Hervey Smith from 1938 to 1946.Registrar
Students at the Women’s College organized the Young Women’s Christian Association in 1896-97.Religious Societies
The Rhode Island Society for the Collegiate Education of Women was incorporated in 1896 with 36 charter members under the leadership of Sarah Doyle, principal of the girls’ department of Providence High School.Rhode Island Society for the Collegiate Education of Women
James Seth did not stay long, leaving in 1896 to become professor of moral philosophy at Cornell.Seth, James
The fraternity soon turned its attention to Shakespearean plays, and in 1896, with the performance of "Twelfth Night," began the annual presentation of a play by Shakespeare.Sororities
The next sorority was Delta Sigma, which was formed as a local organization in 1896, and merged in 1901 with another local society, Alpha Delta Sigma at Tufts.Sororities
The next year Mary Woolley House and Stanton House (named for Emma Bradford Stanton 1896) at 85 Brown Street were upperclass dormitories and Snow House became one in 1956.Student housing
In the intercollegiate tournament in 1893 Brown took firsts in both the singles and doubles, the former won by Malcolm Chace 1896, and the latter by Chace and Clarence Budlong 1897, a freshman who had won the interscholastic singles of the United States while he was in high school.Tennis
During the academic year 1896-97 Arthur E. Watson delivered a series of night lectures on electrical engineering to "a class of practical men" in the electrical laboratory.University Extension
Winslow Upton was away again in 1896-97 at the southern station of the Harvard College Observatory in Arequipa, Peru.Upton, Winslow
J(ames) Walter Wilson (1896-1969), professor of biology, was born in Manchester, New Hampshire, on June 17, 1896.Wilson, James Walter