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1902

  • In 1902 Brown joined seven other colleges in the formation of the New England College Entrance Certificate Board for the purpose of approving secondary schools from which students could enter by certificate.Admission
  • The American Philosophical Society has numbered among its members the following individuals connected with Brown, elected to membership in the years indicated: Stephen Hopkins in 1769; Benjamin Waterhouse in 1791; Francis Wayland in 1838; John E. Holbrook 1815 in 1839; Alpheus S. Packard in 1878; George Dana Boardman 1852 in 1880; Henry S. Frieze 1841 in 1884; William Williams Keen 1859 in 1884; James Macalister 1856 in 1886; James Burrill Angell 1849 in 1889; Lester Frank Ward in 1889; Richard Olney 1856 in 1897; Stephen F. Peckham 1862 in 1897; John Hay 1858 in 1898; Robert H. Thurston 1859 in 1902; Carl Barus in 1903; Hermon Carey Bumpus 1884 in 1909; Charles E. Bennett 1878 in 1913; Winthrop John Vanleuven Osterhout 1893 in 1917; John Franklin Jameson in 1920; Charles Evans Hughes 1881 in 1926; Arthur F. Buddington ’12 in 1931; John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 1897 in 1931; Ernest E. Tyzzer 1897 in 1931; Gilbert Chinard in 1932; George E. Coghill 1896 in 1935; Harvey N. Davis ’01 in 1935; George Grafton Wilson 1886 in 1936; Frederick G. Keyes ’09 Ph.D. in 1938; Charles August Kraus in 1939; Walter S. Hunter in 1941; Leonard Carmichael in 1942; Zechariah Chafee ’07 in 1946; Robert Cushman Murphy ’11 in 1946; Otto E. Neugebauer in 1947; William A. Noyes in 1947; George Boas ’13 in 1950; Carl Bridenbaugh in 1950; Clarence Saunders Brigham 1899 in 1955; Clarence H. Graham in 1956; John Imbrie in 1956; Lars Onsager in 1959; John Wilder Tukey ’36 in 1962; Edmund Sears Morgan in 1964; Carl Pfaffmann ’33 in 1964; Vartan Gregorian in 1965; Barnaby C. Keeney in 1965; Donald F. Hornig in 1967; Floyd Ratliff ’50 Ph.D. in 1972; Leon N. Cooper in 1973; David E. Pingree in 1975; George F. Carrier in 1976; Eliot Stellar ’47 Ph.D. in 1977; Brooke Hindle ’40 in 1982; Thomas J. Watson, Jr. ’37 in 1984; Barbara K. Lewalski in 1986.American Philosophical Society
  • The Association of Class Officers began as the Association of Class Secretaries in 1902, when the Brown Alumni Monthly, scarcely two years old, gave a dinner at the University Club for the secretaries of the classes from 1857 to 1902, hoping to encourage subscriptions to the "Monthly," and to organize the secretaries to work for the interests of the University.Association of Class Officers
  • A new course introduced in 1902 covered the principles of navigation using sextant, compass, and chart.Astronomy
  • Henry Robinson Palmer remained editor-in-chief for thirty-one years, personally editing 309 of the 310 issues in that time (he was abroad in May 1902, the only issue which did not receive his immediate supervision).BAM Brown Alumni Monthly
  • Charles Augustus Baylis (1902-1975), professor of philosophy, was born in Portland, Oregon, on April 2, 1902.Baylis, Charles A.
  • The only known earlier attempt to have a mascot had occurred in 1902, when the "Brown Daily Herald" carried this notice on October 24: "Isaac L. Goff, the real estate man, has presented to the student body a brown and white burro, to be used as a mascot at the Harvard game, Saturday.Bear
  • Bernard Hand, who came from Ireland and served in the Providence Police Department from 1902 to 1939, was the friendly campus policeman at Brown from 1939 to 1949, who "had a way with boys" and kept them out of trouble.College servants
  • Theodore Collier studied at Union Theological Seminary from 1899 to 1902 and at the Universities of Berlin and Marburg in 1903-04.Collier, Theodore
  • Changes were made in the curriculum for students entering in 1902 or thereafter.Curriculum
  • Albert K. Potter joined the department in 1898, George W. Benedict in 1899, Lindsay Todd Damon in 1901, and Henry B. Huntington in 1902.English
  • 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
  • A. Gammons in 1902, David Fultz in 1903, and Gammons again in 1908 and 1909.Football
  • The word "annual" is important here, as the "first" such game was played by Michigan and Stanford in 1902.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 1902 he coached the University of Maine to a state championship, and in 1903 coached Exeter.Football
  • Phi Gamma Delta (Pi Rho chapter) was established in 1902.Fraternities
  • After acceptance by Phi Gamma Delta, Pi Rho chapter was installed on May 16, 1902.Fraternities
  • Upon discovering that a national fraternity named Phi Kappa Sigma already existed, the local fraternity changed its name in 1900 to Phi Kappa and in 1902 received a charter from the state of Rhode Island which enabled it to establish chapters at other colleges.Fraternities
  • Phi Kappa Psi (Rhode Island Alpha chapter) was established in 1902.Fraternities
  • In 1902-03 Albert Granger Harkness was resident professor at the American School for Classical Studies in Rome.Harkness, Albert Granger
  • Elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1902, William T. Hastings was secretary of Rhode Island Alpha from 1920 to 1951, vice-president from 1951 to 1953, president from 1953 to 1955, and chapter historian until his death.Hastings, William T.
  • Henry B. Huntington taught at Dartmouth and Harvard before coming to Brown in 1902 as assistant professor of English.Huntington, Henry B.
  • In 1902 the ivy chain was introduced, carried by lines of undergraduates in white dresses, followed by the seniors in caps and gowns.Ivy Day
  • After the Carnegie Institution of Washington was established in 1902, Jameson approached its director, Daniel Coit Gilman, with a plan which resulted in the establishment of the Institution’s Bureau of Historical Research in 1903.Jameson, John Franklin
  • Under an agreement between the trustees of the estate and the University in 1902, the library is owned by the Corporation, but has been operated as a semi-autonomous institution with its own administration and funding, under a committee of management.John Carter Brown Library
  • Robert Webb "Pat" Kenny (1902-1983), professor of English, was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, on February 10, 1902.Kenny, Robert W.
  • Between 1898 and 1902 Lida 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
  • From 1902 until 1907 the "Liber" contained class lists of women students and pages devoted to the sororities and other women’s organizations and teams.Liber Brunensis
  • Alexander Meiklejohn was instructor and assistant professor of philosophy from 1899 to 1902, and had the title of associate professor of logic and metaphysics from 1902 to 1912.Philosophy
  • Dr. Jeannie Oliver Arnold was physician at the Women’s College from 1902 to 1912 and lectured to the students on care of the body, rest and exercise, food, and clothing.Physical Education
  • William Carey Poland lectured on the history of art at Boston University in 1901 and 1902, was secretary of the Commission of Colleges in New England on Admission Examinations from 1886 to 1905, and prepared the "Necrology of Brown University," which appeared in the "Providence Journal" annually on Commencement day, from 1888 to 1904.Poland, William Carey
  • Otis E. Randall's publications include "Directions in Regard to the Construction of Plates in Mechanical Drawing" in 1895, "Shades and Shadows in Perspective" in 1902, and a textbook, "Elements of Descriptive Geometry," in 1912.Randall, Otis E.
  • By 1902 there were 344 faculty and student members.Religious Societies
  • Rhode Island School of Design entered into cooperation with Brown in 1902, when three courses at the school were opened to Brown students and counted as qualifications for a degree.Rhode Island School of Design
  • 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.
  • Among Lorenzo Sears's works were "American Literature in the Colonial and National Periods," published in 1902, and "The Makers of American Literature," in 1905.Sears, Lorenzo
  • It came out monthly in 1901-1902, quarterly from 1902 to 1928, and irregularly from 1929 to its end in 1932.Sepiad
  • As the "Brown Daily Herald" of March 26, 1902 remarked, "This term is the time for many seniors to make their work as light as possible and to thoroughly enjoy the remainder of their course."Spring Day
  • Philip Taft (1902-1976), professor of economics, was born in Syracuse, New York, on March 22, 1902.Taft, Philip
  • He helped to form Sock and Buskin, the Brown University Dramatic Society, in 1902, and the Players, an amateur group which appeared at the Talma Theatre on South Main Street, in 1909.Thomas Crosby
  • At the New England Intercollegiate Athletic Association annual meet in 1902, Brown came in third of eight colleges after Amherst and Dartmouth, having placed first, second, and third in the two-mile bicycle race and scored in the one- and two-mile runs and the discus throw.Track
  • In 1902 a modest increase brought the fee up to $105, a rate which survived until 1917, when it leaped to $175.Tuition
  • The administrative offices of the University were removed to the newly constructed Van Wickle Hall in 1902.University Hall
  • Van Wickle Hall was built in 1902 and was originally called the Administration Building.Van Wickle Hall
  • Nathanael West (1902-1940) was born Nathan Weinstein in New York on October 17, 1902.West, Nathanael
  • The Library’s Wheaton Collection of International Law, founded in 1902, is named for him.Wheaton, Henry