C(larence) Raymond Adams (1898-1965), professor of mathematics, was born on April 10, 1898, which was Easter Sunday, in Cranston, Rhode Island, his exact place of birth being the Rhode Island Training School for Boys (Sockanosset) where his father was employed as an engineer.Adams, Clarence Raymond
In 1898, with 32 students in his course, Packard reported the urgent need for anthropological monographs and journals which he could not afford to buy and an important addition of "flint implements from the Danish refuse-heaps, comprising stone hammers, celts, lance-heads, knives, etc., received by exchange from the Rhode Island Historical Society."Anthropology
The division has been housed since March 1953 in the elegant Henry Pearce House at 182 George Street, designed by Angell and Swift and built in 1898.Applied Mathematics
In 1898 the alumnae of the Women’s College established the Asa Clinton Crowell premiums in German to be awarded to at least two members of the entering class of the Women’s College.Asa Clinton Crowell
Frederick Slocum 1895 received the first Ph.D. in astronomy at Brown in 1898 and served as assistant professor of astronomy from 1899 to 1909.Astronomy
In February 1898 Brown was host to a conference on intercollegiate athletics, with representatives of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania in attendance.Athletics
After receiving a bachelor of science degree from Central Normal College in Danville, Indiana, in 1898, Arthur M. Banta earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1903 and a master of arts degree in 1904 at the University of Indiana, where he began his work under Carl Eigenmann, investigating fauna of a local cave.Banta, Arthur M.
Several of the players of the 1890s went on to play major league ball, Woodcock with Pittsburgh, Sexton, Tenney, and outfielder John "Daff" Gammons 1893 with the Boston Nationals, Thomas Dowd 1893 with the Washington Senators, and William Lauder 1898 with the Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Giants.Baseball
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
Cheers were included in the student handbook for 1898-99, introduced because "On numerous occasions the college man is called upon to join in, or perhaps lead the cheering."Cheering
Francis Greenleaf Allinson was associate professor of Greek and classical philology from 1895 to 1898, after which he was the David Benedict Professor of Greek literature and history from 1898 to 1927.Classics
’He earned a bachelor of philosophy degree in 1898 and a master of arts in 1899 at Brown.Clinton Harvey Currier
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
Brown defeated the Carlisle Indians, 18-14, in 1898 at the Polo Grounds in New York in a game called because of darkness just after Gammons’ winning touchdown.Football
Edward North Robinson replaced Wallace Moyle as coach in 1898, beginning his first of three coaching stints at Brown.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
Edward North Robinson was coach three separate times, during the seasons of 1898 to 1901, 1904 to 1907, and 1910 to 1925, a total of 23 years.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
Kappa Sigma (Beta Alpha chapter) was installed on February 22, 1898, at the Narragansett Hotel, and rooms for the society were secured in the Banigan Building.Fraternities
A demonstration of physical training by six hundred students in Infantry Hall on March 3, 1898 was the first of the annual gymnastic demonstrations.Gymnastics
In September 1898 John Hay was back in Washington to become Secretary of State.Hay, John
On January 19, 1898, on Franklin Field in Boston, the first game of intercollegiate ice hockey in the United States was played by Harvard and Brown.Hockey
Members of the Brown team were Jesse Pevear 1899, Irving Hunt 1899, Charles Cooke 1899, Horace Day ’01, Harris Bucklin ’00, Robert Steere ’01, and Albert Barrows 1898.Hockey
Reverend Joseph Taylor 1898 was in Chengtu Sze, China, in 1918, when he received an unexpected letter a few days after Commencement informing him that he had been awarded an honorary D.D. degree.Honorary degrees
The next year, the planting of the class ivy on June 13, 1898 was referred to as "a time-honored tradition."Ivy Day
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.
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
The events that were announced on the program were a concert by the Glee, Banjo, and Mandolin Clubs and an informal dance on Monday, April 8; a reception for the junior class and a theatre party at Keith’s Opera House on Tuesday, April 9, and on Wednesday, April 10, a special chapel service, a baseball game with Andover, and the junior promenade, which had first been held in 1898.Junior Week
Between 1898 and 1902Lida Shaw King was at the Packer Collegiate Institute, first as a teacher of ancient languages and later as director of the Department of Latin and Greek.King, Lida Shaw
Harry Lyman Koopman's other books of poetry included "Morrow Songs" in 1898, "At the Gates of the Century" in 1905, "The Librarian and the Desert" in 1908, and "Hesperia, an American National Poem" in two volumes, 1919-1924.Koopman, Harry Lyman
Charles A. Kraus graduated from the University of Kansas in 1898, a year late in graduating because of a course he had declined to take.Kraus, Charles A.
Courtney Langdon came to Brown as assistant professor of modern languages in 1890, was awarded an honorary bachelor of arts degree in 1891, promoted to associate professor in 1892 and professor in 1898.Langdon, Courtney
Clinton Currier 1898, who began as an instructor in 1899, added astronomy to his teaching duties in 1914.Mathematics
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
Ashton was promoted to associate professor in 1898, and in 1900 became director of chapel music.Music
(Robert) Gale Noyes (1898-1961), professor of English was born in Norwich, Connecticut on September 1, 1898.Noyes, Robert Gale
This brief early history of the founding of the Women’s College was included in the annual report of June 1898 of President Andrews, who was responsible for its founding: Margaret Shove Morriss became Dean of the Women’s College in 1923, taking over 350 students, a majority of them from the Providence area, with a staff consisting of a registrar, a physical education teacher, and a secretary.Pembroke College
On March 3, 1898 an exhibition of the system of training was performed in Infantry Hall by six hundred students and attended by an equal number of spectators, "many of whom were educators from abroad."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 on "The State" became part of a composite course in economics, political, and social science in 1898.Political Science
After the departure of President Andrews in 1898, the house was not occupied by the president.President’s House
Roland G. D. Richardson graduated from Acadia College in 1898 and received a bachelor’s degree in 1903, a master’s in 1904, and a Ph.D. in 1906, all from Yale.Richardson, Roland G. D.
Roland G. D. Richardson taught at two schools in Nova Scotia, Margaretsville School in 1895-96 and 1898-99 and Westport High School from 1899 to 1902.Richardson, Roland G. D.
In 1898 James Seth returned to the University of Edinburgh to occupy the chair of moral philosophy for 26 years.Seth, James
After 1898 the performances, which had been attended by women only, were open to the public.Sororities
He taught at Worcester Academy and the University Grammar School before going to New York in 1898 to study at the Stanhope-Wheaton Dramatic School.Thomas Crosby
The gates were built with the bequest of Augustus Stout Van Wickle 1876, president of a bank and several coal corporations, who was killed in a skeet shooting accident in 1898.Van Wickle Gates
Joachim Wach (1898-1955), professor of Biblical literature, was born in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany, on January 25, 1898.Wach, Joaquim
Wrestling was one of the many accomplishments exhibited by the students at the University’s demonstration of its system of physical training held in Infantry Hall on March 3, 1898, although scant attention was received from the "Brown Daily Herald," which conceded, "The wrestling contests were interesting, too," and continued, "A particularly pleasant feature was the music furnished by the Brown Symphony Orchestra."Wrestling