Encyclopedia Brunoniana

1909

  • In 1905, some years after the death of his first wife, Francis Greenleaf Allinson married Dean Anne Crosby Emery of the Women’s College and together they wrote "Greek Lands and Letters," which was published in 1909.Allinson, Francis Greenleaf
  • In 1909 Boston and New York alumnae clubs were formed, followed by a Connecticut Valley club, and a Washington club.Alumnae Association
  • 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
  • James Burrill Angell thought of resigning as president at Michigan in 1905, but was persuaded to remain until 1909, when he retired at the age of eighty.Angell, James Burrill
  • His writings included a translation of Mortenson’s "Handbook of Norse Mythology "in 1913, translations of old Dutch letters in "Narratives of the New Netherlands "in 1909, and "Lessons in Old Icelandic "in 1911.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
  • McKinnon, who came as an assistant to his brother-in-law Huggins, worked for seven Brown football coaches from 1909 to 1959, taking over as head trainer when Huggins died in 1924, on the day of the football game with Yale.Athletics
  • Beginning in 1909, Arthur M. Banta conducted research at the Cold Spring Harbor (Long Island) Station for Experimental Evolution of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.Banta, Arthur M.
  • In 1909 Clarence A. Barbour resigned to become associate secretary of the Religious Work Department of the International Committee of the Y.M.C.A.Barbour, Clarence A.
  • Florence H. Danielson, assistant in biology from 1909 to 1916, was followed by Helen B. Whiting from 1916 to 1919, and Helen F. Ordway from 1919 to 1921.Biology
  • Bailey retired in 1905, and Collins was replaced as assistant professor in 1911 by Harlan H. York, who had recently earned a Ph.D. degree at Johns Hopkins University, and had been an instructor in botany at the University of Texas from 1906 to 1909.Botany
  • The first edition, which appeared in 1909 was a small brown suede covered volume.Brun Mael
  • In 1909 it passed rules to protect the site of the freshman banquet from damage by the sophomores.Cammarian Club
  • The view appeared as a tail piece in "Memories of Brown," published in 1909, where the name of the firm was incorrectly given as "Woodbury-Clayton."Campus
  • Robert F. Chambers received a bachelor of philosophy degree in 1909, a master of science in 1910, and a master of arts and Ph.D. in 1912, all from Brown, specializing in the study of organic chemistry under Professor John E. Bucher.Chambers, Robert F.
  • Meanwhile Charles V. Chapin was instructor in physiology at Brown from 1882 to 1886 and professor from 1886 to 1895, city registrar of Providence from 1889 to 1932, lecturer at Harvard Medical School in 1909, at Harvard-M.I.T. School for health officers from 1913 to 1922, and at Harvard School of Hygiene from 1923 to 1931.Chapin, Charles V.
  • In 1909 a committee of nine unanimously recommended that changes should be made, but after referring the matter to the law committee and considering the legal problems, a majority of five supported pursuing changes in the Charter, while the a minority of four recommended waiting.Charter
  • He was an instructor in mathematics at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1903 to 1909.Clinton Harvey Currier
  • He came to Providence, and several generations of alumni had fond memories of him as the janitor at Faunce House from 1909 (when it was still Rockefeller Hall) until his retirement in 1952.College servants
  • James Q. Dealey also published "The Development of the States" in 1909, "The Family in its Sociological Aspects" in 1912, "Growth of the State Constitutions" in 1915, "State and Government" in 1921, "Foreign Policies of the United States" in 1926, and "Political Situations in Rhode Island" in 1928.Dealey, James Q.
  • In 1909 a New England Oratorical League was formed by representatives Amherst, Bowdoin, Brown, Wesleyan, and Williams, and the same year a Brown chapter of Delta Sigma Rho, national forensic society, was established.Debating
  • Curt J. Ducasse received his bachelor and master of arts degrees from the University of Washington in 1908 and 1909, taught there for one year, then went to Harvard as a University Scholar in 1910 and received his Ph.D. degree in 1912.Ducasse, Curt J.
  • Lida Shaw King, the third dean, had the title of assistant professor of classical philology from 1905 to 1909 and professor of classical literature and archaeology from 1909 to 1922.Faculty
  • A. Gammons in 1902, David Fultz in 1903, and Gammons again in 1908 and 1909.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
  • Left without a coaching job that year, he was coach at Tufts in 1909, and the next year was once more at Brown, remaining this time until 1925.Football
  • By 1909 the chapter had acquired the use of all the rooms in South Hope College.Fraternities
  • In 1909 Theta Delta Chi moved into a house which had been purchased by the University and leased to the fraternity.Fraternities
  • J(ames) Louis Giddings (1909-1964), professor of anthropology, was born in Caldwell, Texas on April 10, 1909.Giddings, James Louis
  • At his death on May 27, 1907, the "Brown Alumni Monthly" printed these lines about him: A bronze bust of Harkness modeled by William Manatt of Providence six months before Harkness’s death was given to Brown by his widow in 1909.Harkness, Albert 1842
  • The 1909 Junior Week was especially exciting.Junior Week
  • Lida Shaw King's title was changed in 1909 to professor of classical literature and archaeology.King, Lida Shaw
  • In "Topics of the Month" in the June 1909 "Brown Alumni Monthly" it was recorded: Lida Shaw King had considerable success in raising the separate funds of the college from $66,031 in 1905 to $358,971 in 1921.King, Lida Shaw
  • In 1908 the women’s pages disappeared, and in 1909 the Women’s College started its own annual, "Brun Mael," which was published until 1970, after which the "Liber Brunensis" became the yearbook of the coeducational institution brought about by the merger of Brown and Pembroke.Liber Brunensis
  • Other women’s clubs were the short-lived Choral Club in 1909 and the Chapel Choir, established in 1909-10 under the direction of Professor Hamilton MacDougall, and directed by Blanche N. Davis from 1913 to 1938.Musical Clubs
  • 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
  • Formal dinners were reinstated in 1909 and held in the spring.Phi Beta Kappa
  • In 1909 the Association opened a "Brown Settlement" at 470 North Main Street for the purpose of offering classes in civics and English, mainly to boys and young men, intended to reach "3 nationalities, the Jews, the Irish, and the Italians."Religious Societies
  • Roland G. D. Richardson studied at Göttingen in 1908-1909.Richardson, Roland G. D.
  • The classes of 1909 through 1914 dressed as the French soldiers who had occupied University Hall during the Revolution, while the senior class of 1915 were soldiers of the Continental army.Sesquicentennial celebration
  • Kendall K. Smith earned a master of arts degree at Harvard in 1906, studied at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, and returned to Harvard to earn a Ph.D. degree in 1909.Smith, Kendall K.
  • Kendall K. Smith taught the classics at Harvard from 1909 to 1915.Smith, Kendall K.
  • Louis F. Snow then had a number of educational appointments: Chairman of the English Department at the Normal School, Cortland, New York, 1908-09; Dean of Teacher’s College and professor of education, State University of Kentucky, 1909-1911; professor of philosophy and education, Wells College, 1911-12; librarian, University of Pittsburgh, 1912-1914; chief of the English Department and librarian, University of the Philippines, 1914-1918.Snow, Louis F.
  • The Women’s College Class of 1909 decided that year not to continue the "initiation ceremonies," which the sophomores had been accustomed to inflict upon the freshmen.Sophomore Masque
  • The Class of 1909 decided to initiate the tradition of a "Class Flower."Sophomore Masque
  • Since the color of the Class of 1909 was pink, the class flower selected was the rose, chosen in secret to be presented at a masque written by the sophomores, which told the story of a princess, who had been put to sleep by a witch and could be awakened only by one flower.Sophomore Masque
  • Members of the Class of 1909, as creators of the custom, received by vote of the Student Government Association in their senior year the privilege of attending any future sophomore masques.Sophomore Masque
  • Margaret B. Stillwell graduated in 1909, and was editor of "Brun Mael," the Women’s College yearbook which appeared for the first time in that year.Stillwell, Margaret B.
  • 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
  • McGrath came back again in the spring of 1909 after a year’s absence.Track
  • In 1909-10 Benjamin Ide Wheeler was the Theodore Roosevelt Professor at the University of Berlin.Wheeler, Benjamin Ide