In 1897 Anne Crosby Emery Allinson became assistant professor of classical philology and the first dean of women at the University of Wisconsin., which had four hundred women students.Allinson, Anne Crosby Emery
; astronomers Frederick Slocum 1895 and Harlan T. Stetson ’08; anthropologist Lester F. Ward; botanist Thomas Harper Goodspeed ’09; chemists Moses L. Crossley ’09 Raymond M. Fuoss ’32 Ph.D, Louis J. Gillespie ’08 John B. F. Herreshoff 1890, Charles A. Kraus, and William Albert Noyes, Jr.; geologist Arthur F. Buddington ’12; mathematicians C. Raymond Adams ’18, Raymond C. Archibald, Albert Arnold Bennett ’10, Derrick H. Lehmer ’30 Ph.D., Otto Neugebauer, Otto Szasz, Jacob D. Tamarkin, Waldemar J. Trjizinsky, and Raymond L. Wilder ’18; pathologist Ernest E. Tyzzer 1897; physicists Walter G. Cady 1895, Albert DeForest Palmer 1891, and Frank P. Whitman 1874; psychologists Leonard Carmichael, Clarence H. Graham, and Guy Montrose Whipple 1897; zoologists Victor E. Emmel ’07 Ph.D, Leigh Hoadley, Robert Cushman Murphy ’11, Alpheus S. Packard, and Herbert E. Walter ’93 A.M.American Men of Science
At the Corporation meeting in June 1897 it was resolved that a committee be appointed "to confer with the president in regard to the interests of the University."Andrews, Elisha Benjamin
In the midst of the controversy in the summer of 1897, Andrews had also accepted the offer received from John Brisben Walker, editor of "Cosmopolitan Magazine," of the presidency of his proposed "Cosmopolitan University," a tuition-free correspondence school for the educational benefit of the public.Andrews, Elisha Benjamin
The property, nearly seven acres between Camp and Ivy Streets, was acquired in 1897 through the bequest of John Wilson Smith.Andrews Field
Sinclair Wallace Armstrong (1897-1959), professor of history, was born in Middletown, Connecticut, on March 31, 1897, the son of a professor of philosophy at Wesleyan.Armstrong, Sinclair W.
The Association of Class Secretaries was duly formed and elected George L. Miner 1897 its first secretary.Association of Class Officers
The 1897 varsity won 24 of 30 games, and as champions of the East traveled to Chicago to meet and win two games of three in a series with the champions of the West, the University of Chicago.Baseball
George W. Benedict received his master’s degree from Harvard in 1897 and his Ph.D., also from Harvard, in 1899, his dissertation being a study of Sir Kay, seneschal of King Arthur’s court.Benedict, George W.
In the spring vacation of 1897 the steamer "John M. Long" was chartered to survey the waters of Narragansett Bay, and the students collected marine animals for the museum.Biology
The appointment of Bumpus in 1897 to the Rhode Island Inland Fish Commission and in 1898 as director of research of the Woods Hole station of the U. S. Fish Commission began an involvement of the Biology Department in the study of the protection of young lobsters.Biology
Benjamin Williams Brown (1897-1955), professor of English and director of Sock and Buskin, born in Danielson, Connecticut, on December 1, 1897, was a direct descendant of Roger Williams.Brown, Benjamin W.
He went to Boston University for a year, transferred to Brown in 1897, and received a bachelor of philosophy degree in 1900.Brown, Charles Wilson
The club was self-perpetuating and the first public notice of an election of members was in 1897 when fifteen juniors were "tapped" as they left chapel to signify their selection as members of the next year’s club.Cammarian Club
Robert Pierce Casey (1897-1959), professor of Biblical literature, was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, on December 3, 1897.Casey, Robert P.
An attempt in the 1890s to tax real estate in downtown Providence, which was owned and rented for business by the University, was settled by a Supreme Court in 1897 that "the provision of the Charter in question is in full force and operation, and that the tax assessed upon the property ... was wholly illegal and void."Charter
There was also a feeling that the University was beginning to hoard property, which led President Wriston to explain that, despite the 1897 ruling, Brown had adopted a policy of not acquiring property as a real estate investment and of selling donated property not required for future construction at the earliest opportunity.Charter
In 1897 the afternoon exercises on the front campus, consisting of the band concert, the addresses, the planting of the class tree, and the smoking of class pipes, became known as the "Under the Elms" exercises.Class Day
On November 31, 1897, a performance in Greek of "The Return of Odysseus" at Pembroke Hall included a hymn to Apollo, which had been discovered at Delphi by Professor Manatt.Classics
Stephen S. Colvin's thesis for his Ph.D. at Strasburg in 1897 was "Schopenhauer’s Doctrine of the Thing-in-Itself and his Attempt to Relate it to the World of Phenomena."Colvin, Stephen S.
Stephen S. Colvin taught English at Worcester Academy from 1897 to 1901, and continued his studies under G. Stanley Hall at Clark University, becoming interested in educational psychology.Colvin, Stephen S.
A course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science was drawn up in 1891, and the Sc.B. degree was awarded for the first time in 1897 to three candidates.Degrees
He was assisted by Charles E. Dennis, instructor in pedagogy, from 1897 to 1901.Education
This came about after John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 1897 wrote to the Corporation on January 6, 1902, "My father stands ready to erect, furnish and give to the corporation of Brown University, free of expense, a building to be devoted primarily to the social and religious uses of the students of the university.Faunce House
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
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
In June 1901President Faunce announced the success of a two million dollar endowment campaign, which included half a million for the endowment of the John Carter Brown Library, $150,000 for a new library building, a contribution of $250,000 from John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 1897, and contributions from about 2,500 subscribers, many of them not wealthy.Fund-raising
Reuben A. Guild was the historian of Brown University, keeping scrapbooks of clippings about the University beginning in 1851, and publishing "The Life, Times and Correspondence of James Manning, and the Early History of Brown University" in 1864, "History of Brown University with Illustrative Documents" in 1867, and "The Early History of Brown University" in 1897.Guild, Reuben A.
After his friend William McKinley was elected president, John Hay was appointed ambassador to Great Britain in 1897.Hay, John
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
Jameson, through his authorship of an "Open Letter ... to the Corporation of Brown University by Members of the Faculty" on July 31, 1897, initiated a protest by faculty, alumni, and academic persons throughout the country, whose petitions were instrumental in convincing the Corporation to request the withdrawal of his resignation.Jameson, John Franklin
The next year there were pictures of individual women graduates, and in 1897 lists of sorority members.Liber Brunensis
In 1988 the library designated as its two-millionth book a first-edition copy of Pavlov’s "Lectures on the Function of the Main Food-Digesting Glands," printed in St Petersburg in 1897.Library
In 1897 an attempt by the heirs to recover the land on the grounds of non-compliance was not allowed by the court, and in 1908 Mrs. Metcalf’s daughter, Almira Pierce, unwillingly paid Brown $8,000 which she had held in trust "for the improvement of the ... Botanical Garden," and took this opportunity to protest the University’s inaction.Metcalf Botanical Garden
Harry Edward Miller (1897-1937), professor of economics, was born in Boston on October 10, 1897.Miller, Harry E.
The "Boston Transcript" assessed his record in 1897, "Mr. Olney’s methods were those of a strong and well-equipped lawyer; there was nothing of the politician in his administration of either cabinet office.Olney, Richard
John Peirce (1836-1897), professor of chemistry, was born in Providence on August 16, 1836, after the death of his father.Peirce, John
The building was nearly completed by the target date of Commencement in 1897, and the seniors were able to hold Ivy Day exercises there, but only with the contractors’ permission, as the building awaited the payment of an additional six hundred dollars before it could be transferred to the University.Pembroke Hall
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
The physical education requirement was changed in 1897 to three hours per week, and in 1905 was limited to freshmen and sophomores only.Physical Education
Mabel Potter 1897, as a freshman accosted President Andrews after chapel and requested gymnastics for the women.Physical Education
In 1897 the alumnae subscribed funds to purchase physical apparatus for the women and a Department of Physical Culture was established with Mabel Potter as instructor of physiology, hygiene, and sanitary science.Physical Education
Miss Potter reported a marked improvement in the condition of the students as evidenced by measurements taken in November 1897 and again in April 1898.Physical Education
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
Albert K. Potter was principal of the high school in Middleboro, Massachusetts, from 1887 to 1890, and classical master at the high school in Springfield, Massachusetts, from 1890 to 1897.Potter, Albert K.
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
The size of classes in Hebrew increased as theological institutions began to expect their students to have studied Hebrew in college, and in 1897-98 Rabbi David Blaustein was appointed instructor in Semitics.Religious Studies
David Rockefeller spoke at the dedication on November 15, 1964 of the library named for his father, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 1897, "an alumnus whose services to society were characterized by distinction and integrity, and whose relations to the University those of a devoted alumnus."Rockefeller Library
The commodore was Albert G. Utley 1897, owner of the cutter Sharon.Sailing
The other sororities established were Alpha Epsilon chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta, which began as a local society called Tri Kappa, in 1897, Theta Lambda Tau in 1901, Beta Delta Phi for Catholic women in 1903, Gamma Delta in 1903, Zeta Zeta Zeta in 1905, and Kappa chapter of Sigma Kappa in 1908.Sororities
Pease House was not listed as a residence after 1897.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