Clarence Raymond Adams was encouraged by Professor R. G. D. Richardson to do graduate work at Harvard and received his Ph.D. in 1922 for his thesis on partial difference equations, written under the direction of G. D. Birkhoff.Adams, Clarence Raymond
A requirement that freshman take psychological tests before admission was adopted in 1922.Admission
At a testimonial dinner for Appleton held on June 19, 1922, President Faunce, his former student, said of him, "No student ever had to ask him to put a question a second time.Appleton, John Howard
Samuel T. Arnold was appointed assistant in chemistry in 1913-14, and was promoted to instructor in 1914, assistant professor in 1917, associate professor in 1922, and full professor in 1930.Arnold, Samuel T.
In 1922 Alfred H. Gurney ’07 took the job and remained until June 1939, his title having been changed in 1925 to Alumni Secretary.Associated Alumni
A rule barring freshmen from intercollegiate competition was passed in 1922-23.Athletics
In the 1920s there were three winning seasons under coaches Wally Snell ’13 and Harold "Chick" Evans, 13-10 in 1922, and 10-6 in 1925 and 1926.Basketball
That team, undefeated on the home court, won seventeen of its twenty games, beat every New England opponent excepting Dartmouth and including Providence College for the first time since 1922, but lost to Villanova, 42-30, in the tournament.Basketball
After several years of employment by engineering firms, Leighton T. Bohl returned to Brown in 1922 as assistant professor of civil engineering, becoming associate professor in 1924 and professor in 1929.Bohl, Leighton T.
At some time the dining room reappeared in the basement where, in 1922, it was decorated by murals of early Rhode Island history by Percy F. Albee ’22 and Stacy Tolman.Brown Union
General plans for the expansion of the University were prepared by Paul Cret in 1922, and the East Side Development Company was organized to purchase property to the south of the campus, where the Wriston Quadrangle was later situated.Campus
With an eye to expansion the University began to add to its real estate holdings in the 1920s, acquiring in 1922-23 the Coats estate at 13 Brown Street, the Pearce lot at the corner of Brook and Manning Streets, estates at 201 and 205 Bowen Street, two lots on Cushing Street which Stephen O. Metcalf presented to the Women’s College, and the block bounded by Brook, Williams, Power and Thayer Streets, which was to be used for tennis courts.Campus
Robert P. Casey graduated from Harvard in 1919 and received a bachelor of sacred theology degree from Harvard Divinity School in 1922.Casey, Robert P.
She established a vested chapel choir in 1922, and also gave monthly organ recitals for the students and provided musical accompaniment as needed for other productions of the Women’s College.Chapel
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.
The office of Dean of Freshmen was created in 1922 and held by William Russell Burwell from 1922 to 1926, and Kenneth O. Mason from 1926 until his death in 1930.Dean
Claus Emanuel Ekstrom helped organize "Majblommen," the Swedish-American anti-tuberculosis association in the United States in 1922, and for his work in anti-tuberculosis education was awarded the first class medal, Royal Order of Vasa, by King Gustaf V of Sweden.Ekstrom, Claus Emanuel
Walter G. Everett was appointed a delegate of the American Philosophical Association to the Allied Congress of Philosophy in Paris in 1921, and was president of the Association in 1922.Everett, Walter G.
The Faculty Club was formed after the acquisition in 1922 of the house at 13 Brown Street.Faculty Club
President Faunce, in his annual report in October 1922, pointed out the desire of the University to improve the "mutual acquaintance which is the prerequisite of intellectual understanding and cooperation."Faculty Club
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
Harrison E. Farnsworth's first published paper in 1922 reported that some secondary electrons were reflected without loss of energy, an observation which was at first criticized, but later confirmed.Farnsworth, Harrison E.
William L. Fichter taught at the High School of Commerce in New York City from 1914 to 1917, at the United States Naval Academy from 1917 to 1922, at Girard College from 1922 to 1925, and at the University of Minnesota from 1925 to 1928.Fichter, William L.
Phi Kappa had its location in Caswell Hall, at 109 George Street, and at 279 Benefit Street, before settling at 426 Brook Street from 1922 until the chapter became inactive in 1929.Fraternities
Robert H. George returned to Yale as assistant professor from 1919 to 1922, and in 1922-23 was associate professor at Union College.George, Robert H.
While studying for his doctorate Leland M. Goodrich taught at Brown in 1922-23, and during the next two years studied in Brussels, Paris, and the Hague on a fellowship of the Commission for the Relief of Belgium.Goodrich, Leland M.
After it became apparent that few departments were requiring the thesis, a Graduate Council consisting of four members and the Dean was established in 1922 to help with the administration of graduate work.Graduate School
From 1910 to 1920Mayo D. Hersey was a physicist at the National Bureau of Standards, and from 1922 to 1926 chief of the physical laboratory of the U.S. Bureau of Mines in Pittsburgh.Hersey, Mayo D.
Funds for the project were raised by the Rhode Island Society for the Collegiate Education of Women, of which Mrs. Howard had been president from 1922 to 1942.Howard Terrace
The Rhode Island Society for the Collegiate Education of Women equipped an infirmary for the women students in 1922 in Metcalf Hall.Infirmary
Of her resignation in 1922, President Faunce said in his annual report, "Lida Shaw King plans to return to Greece to pursue her favorite studies in classical archaeology."King, Lida Shaw
In the 1922-23 academic year Robert Bruce Lindsay studied, as a Fellow of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, at the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen under Niels Bohr (who won the Nobel prize that year) and H. A. Kramer.Lindsay, Robert Bruce
M. Elizabeth Bates was instructor in hygiene and physical education from 1913 to 1919, and was followed by Nellie E. Bussell from 1919 to 1922.Physical Education
Marjorie Brown was in charge from 1922 until 1926, when she left to marry H. Stanton Smith ’21, and was succeeded by Frances Dennett, who remained until 1930.Physical Education
In those years there were courses in international relations and foreign governments, and other specialties, such as Sea Power (offered only in 1919), Business Law in 1919, American Foreign Policies in 1921, Corporation Law in 1922, and State Government in 1925.Political Science
Leland M. Goodrich, who was instructor in political science in 1922-23, returned as assistant professor in 1926, became head of the department in 1949, and left for Columbia in 1950.Political Science
The present President’s House was designed by William T. Aldrich and built in 1922 as the home of Rush Sturges.President’s House
Bessie H. Rudd was assistant in the Department of Physical Education at Radcliffe College from 1918 to 1922, and assistant director of physical education from 1924 to 1930, when she became director of physical education at Pembroke.Rudd, Bessie H.
The next year the "Sepiad Supplement" came out about every three weeks, and by 1922 it became a newspaper in its own right, changing its title to "The Record."Sepiad
A "Providence Journal" article in 1922, headed "Women Students at Brown Adopt National Game ... Enthusiasm Makes Amends for Occasional Lack of Skill," noted, "For three years inter-class games have been played by the women students ...Softball
The Women’s College had its own Spring Day, initiated by the Class of 1922.Spring Day
The festivities consisted of a breakfast followed by chapel exercises at which acting dean Anne Crosby Emery Allinson, honorary member of the Class of 1922, and Alfred H. Jones, chosen "favorite professor," spoke.Spring Day
In the matter of student discipline the Cammarian Club became a link between the administration and the students, and was in 1922 credited by DeanOtis Randall for its assistance in "dealing with perplexing problems which are bound to arise frequently whenever two branches of a great organization look at conditions from widely differing standpoints."Student conduct
Brown, led by Davy Jones ’24, won the N.E.I.S.A. meets the next two years, taking seventeen out of nineteen possible firsts in 1922.Swimming
Tennis was revived in 1920 after a lapse of several years and became a recognized sport in 1922.Tennis
After the war there were regular, but not drastic increases, $200 in 1919, $250 in 1921, $300 in 1922, $350 in 1925, and $400 in 1928.Tuition
After the war, Joaquim Wach pursued his studies between 1919 and 1922 at the Universities of Munich, Berlin, Freiburg, and Leipzig, where he received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1922.Wach, Joaquim
In 1922-23 Brown won all six dual meets and the New England Intercollegiates.Wrestling
Wriston then took a leave of absence to work for his doctorate, which he received from Harvard in 1922.Wriston, Henry M.
In 1922 Lawrence C. Wroth's "A History of Printing in Colonial America" brought him recognition by bibliographical scholars, among them the former librarian of the John Carter Brown Library, George Parker Winship, who wrote in his review, "American bibliography has reached a new level."Wroth, Lawrence C.