1934

Clarence Raymond Adams was, of course, occasionally absent from Brown, traveling for business or pleasure, and he once responded to a class reunion questionnaire which asked the high and low spots of his life: "High spot – Pike’s Peak, 1934, 14,108 feet.Adams, Clarence Raymond
In 1934 each alumnus received a copy of the latest edition of "Student Life at Brown," the publication for prospective students, with the request of President Barbour that the booklet be placed in the hand of a promising applicant, preferably one for the next fall.Admission
In February 1934 the Pembroke Athletic Association returned the invitation to a sports day which featured bowling, apparatus, ping-pong, and ring tennis, followed by a basketball game and a track meet.Athletics
The athletic program was further expanded in 1934-35, when a modern dance group was formed, the first annual riding meet was held in November at Royal Riding School in Seekonk, and an intercollegiate telegraphic archery tournament took place, at which each college competed on its own premises and telegraphed its members’ scores.Athletics
George L. Church joined the department as instructor in 1928, became assistant professor in 1934, associate professor in 1946, and professor in 1951.Botany
Leicester Bradner was promoted to assistant professor in 1930, associate professor in 1934, and professor in 1945.Bradner, Leicester
Harcourt Brown taught at Queen’s College in Kingston, Ontario, and at Brooklyn College and the University of Rochester before earning his Ph.D. degree at Columbia in 1934.Brown, Harcourt
Harcourt Brown became a member of the History of Science Society in 1934, and was its president in 1952.Brown, Harcourt
Promoted to professor, Millar Burrows served as department chairman before leaving in 1934 to become Winkley Professor of Biblical theology in the Yale Divinity School.Burrows, Millar
"Classical Weekly" published Carberry’s contribution, "Another Catullus to Another Lesbia," in 1934, and an article in "American Scientist" included his book, "Psychoceramics" (Brown University Press, 1945, 1313p.)Carberry, Josiah S.
In 1934 Robert P. Casey was appointed professor of Biblical literature and history of religion and chairman of the Department of Biblical Literature at Brown.Casey, Robert P.
Subsequent Historical Catalogues were published at ten year intervals until 1934.Catalogues
The 1934 edition was the last of the historical catalogues published at ten year intervals, as none could be printed during World War II.Catalogues
Herman B. Chase graduated from the New Hampton School in 1930 and from Dartmouth College in 1934.Chase, Herman B.
William F. Church graduated from Allegheny College in 1934 and earned his master’s degree in 1935 and his Ph.D. in 1939, both from Harvard.Church, William F.
The Latin or Greek requirement for the Bachelor of Arts degree was removed by vote of the Corporation in 1934.Classics
The staff of the Linguistic Atlas held a series of conferences at Brown in the summer of 1934.Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
Collins retired from his government position in 1934 at the age of seventy.Collins, James Franklin
Dust was a short-lived student publication of two issues only in January and May of 1934, described in the first issue as "an experiment printed by the editors under the tutelage of E. A. Johnson Printing Company.Dust
On hundred and eighteen Bachelor of Education degrees were awarded between 1920 to 1934, and some students continued their study and received the Bachelor of Philosophy degree.Education
Andrew H. MacPhail, professor of educational psychology since 1921, became director of educational measurement in 1934.Education
John E. Hill was appointed instructor in 1894 and served as professor of civil engineering until 1934.Engineering
The Faunce Memorial Room, a room furnished in a manner to invite meditation and containing a portrait of President Faunce, was dedicated after the Baccalaureate service in 1934 with a ceremony at which Faunce’s voice was heard from a phonograph record.Faunce House
The Classes of 1907, 1924, 1929, and 1934 had their numerals added in 1964, and the Class of 1932 numerals were added to 1992.Fence
The fencing team had winning seasons in 1934 and 1935, but by 1936 the varsity team was reduced to five members, who had to double up in order to have three contenders on each of the sabre, epee, and foils.Fencing
Again relieved of his job along with assistant coach Reginald W. P. Brown, he coached the Boston University team from 1926 to 1928 and the Providence Steamrollers from 1931 to 1934.Football
Henry T. Fowler was chairman of that department until 1932, after which he taught on a part time basis until his retirement in 1934.Fowler, Henry T.
James Louis Giddings began working with the Eskimos in 1934 and later excavated archaeological sites at Cape Denbigh and on the Seward Peninsula.Giddings, James Louis
Born in Tabriz, Iran, on April 8, 1934, Vartan Gregorian attended an Armenian-Russian school until he was fifteen, when he left Tabriz with fifty dollars and a letter of introduction from a French vice consul and entered the Collège Arménien in Beirut, Lebanon.Gregorian, Vartan
Mayo D. Hersey was a lecturer and research associate at Brown from 1934 to 1936, the first year by invitation and the second under a subsidy from the Standard Oil Development Company.Hersey, Mayo D.
John Edward Hill (1864-1934), professor of engineering, was born in New York City on November 9, 1864.Hill, John E.
At the time of his death in Providence on November 22, 1934, John E. Hill was the oldest active member of the faculty.Hill, John E.
In September 1934 Hinrichs submitted a provisional resignation to Brown University.Hinrichs, Albert F.
In 1934 Evans asked permission to speak and intoned a short verse, "In this grave presence to record my name/... Like him who in the desert’s awful frame/ Notches his Cockney initials on the Sphinx."Honorary degrees
Albert Bushnell Johnson spent his entire teaching career at Brown, retiring in 1934.Johnson, Albert Bushnell
Having chosen Brown, Kenny stayed for the rest of his life except for two years, 1927 to 1929, as instructor in English at Northeastern University, one year, 1934-1935, as an exchange professor at the American College in Sofia, Bulgaria, and two stints of military service during World War II and the Korean conflict.Kenny, Robert W.
Robert W. Kenny graduated in 1925 and earned his master’s in 1926 and his Ph.D. in 1934.Kenny, Robert W.
Women students took up lacrosse in 1934 when Bessie Rudd acquired 24 lacrosse sticks, and made arrangements to pay for them in two installments.Lacrosse
After a few intramural games a team played Wheaton College on May 14, 1934, and lost, 0-11.Lacrosse
Leland and Jameson paved the way for the establishment of the National Archives, even though this event did not take place until 1934.Leland, Waldo G.
Robert Bruce Lindsay was named Hazard Professor of Physics in 1936 and chairman of the Physics Department in 1934, a post which he held until he became dean of the Graduate School in 1954.Lindsay, Robert Bruce
Robert Bruce Lindsay published a number of textbooks, among them, "Acoustics – A Text on Theory and Applications" with G. W. Stewart in 1934, "Physical Mechanics" in 1933, "Foundations of Physics" with Henry Margenau in 1936, "Concepts and Methods of Theoretical Physics" in 1951 (with a Japanese translation published in 1957).Lindsay, Robert Bruce
A reviewer called a later work, "The Menace of Recovery" (1934) "the most sizzling attack which the New Deal has yet received," and had this to say, "Mr. Macdonald, who in long years of teaching acquired that accent of bland and monumental authority which only American professors and the leading writers of ‘The London Times’ and the Paris ‘Temps’ command, learned in his later years as a radical editor of ‘The Nation’ the rhetoric of denunciation.Macdonald, William
Andrew H. MacPhail was promoted to assistant professor in 1924, associate professor in 1931, and was named director of educational measurement in 1934.MacPhail, Andrew H.
Wayland’s address was published with appended notes by Professor William Gammell describing the new building: In a somewhat contradictory account written by Providence architect John Hutchens Cady ’03 in 1934 for the hundredth anniversary of the building, he wrote, "Two influences doubtless, were instrumental in causing its architect, James C. Bucklin, to design this building in accordance with Greek traditions, namely his familiarity with that style, as exemplified by the Arcade which he had recently designed in collaboration with Russell Warren, and his desire to give the hall an academic appearance."Manning Hall
Marvel had become known as the dean of college athletic directors, and in 1934 was elected to fellowship in the American Physical Education Association.Marvel, Frederick W.
Wilfred Harold Munro (1849-1934), professor of history, was born in Bristol, Rhode Island, on August 20, 1849.Munro, Wilfred H.
Wilfred H. Munro died on August 9, 1934 in Providence.Munro, Wilfred H.
Otto Neugebauer was assistant professor at Göttingen from 1927 to 1933, and research professor at the University of Copenhagen from 1934 to 1939.Neugebauer, Otto
Among the Brown biology professors who served on the board of trustees of the hospital were Professor Hermon Carey Bumpus from 1895 to 1901, and Professor Albert D. Mead, who succeeded him in 1901 and was president of the board in 1934.Nursing program
On his retirement in 1934 Albert D. Palmer moved to California and continued experimentation in a laboratory he built.Palmer, Albert D.
S. J. Perelman began writing for the "New Yorker" in 1934.Perelman, S. J.
The department formed an Outing Club and in 1934 had a cabin on the shore of Sand Dam reservoir in Chepachet.Physical Education
Palmer remained at Brown and taught in the department until 1934, the last two years as associate professor on the Hazard Foundation.Physics
R. Bruce Lindsay 1920, who returned to teach in 1930, became chairman of the department in 1934 and Hazard professor in 1936.Physics
Jay Saunders Redding taught at Louisville Municipal College from 1934 to 1936, and at Southern University in Baton Rouge from 1936 to 1938.Redding, Jay Saunders
Henry Thatcher Fowler was professor of Biblical literature and history from 1901 to 1934.Religious Studies
Millar Burrows came as assistant professor of Biblical literature and history of religion in 1925 and taught until 1934.Religious Studies
Robert P. Casey was appointed professor of Biblical literature and history of religions, and named chairman of the department in 1934, which changed its name from Department of Biblical Literature and History to Department of Biblical Literature and History of Religions.Religious Studies
In 1934 and 1935 Charles Alexander Robinson was Professor of Greek Literature and Archaeology in Athens.Robinson, Charles Alexander
In 1934-35 the Club took part in an early winter intercollegiate "frost-bite’ dinghy race with M.I.T. and Yale.Sailing
Detlev W. Schumann taught at Bowdoin College from 1926 to 1929, at Lincoln School of Teachers College at Columbia from 1929 to 1931, at the University of Missouri from 1931 to 1934, and at Swarthmore College from 1934 to 1935.Schumann, Detlev W.
After 1934 up to the last issue dated May-August 1937, early poems by such poets as Richard Blackmur, William Carlos Williams, Robert Hillyer, and Wallace Stevens appeared in "Smoke."Smoke
Louis Franklin Snow (1862-1934), first dean of the Women’s College, was born in Providence on April 19, 1862.Snow, Louis F.
Louis F. Snow died in Chattanooga on December 26, 1934.Snow, Louis F.
Fletcher’s top season records were 6-1-1 in 1934, 6-0-2 in 1936 when William Margeson ’37 led the team to a New England Soccer League title (and personally scored three goals in Brown’s first victory over Yale), 8-1-2 in 1937 (the only loss was to West Point), and 6-1 in 1945.Soccer
In 1934 there were two Spring Day plaques, one showing the college infirmary full of suffering students, the other a desk clerk at the John Hay Library with a stop watch, the better to charge fines.Spring Day
Randall Stewart was assistant professor of English at the University of Idaho from 1923 to 1925, instructor at Yale from 1926 to 1931 and assistant professor from 1931 to 1934, and professor of English at Vanderbilt from 1934 until he came to Brown in 1937 with an appointment as full professor of English.Stewart, Randall
Merton P. Stoltz graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1934 and earned a master’s degree at Brown in 1936.Stoltz, Merton P.
The remaining treasurers have been Arnold Buffum Chace 1866 from 1882 to 1900; Cornelius S. Sweetland 1866 from 1900 to 1923; Frank W. Matteson 1892 from 1923 to 1933, Edwin Aylsworth Burlingame ’14, acting treasurer from 1933 to 1934; Harold C. Field 1894 from 1934 to 1949; George Burton Hibbert from 1949 to 1950; Gordon L. Parker ’18 from 1950 to 1965; Patrick J. James ’32 from 1965 to 1970; Joseph W. Ress ’26 from 1970 to 1979; Andrew M. Hunt ’51 from 1979 to 1988; and Marie J. Langlois ’64 since 1988.Treasurer
In 1930 Otto Van Koppenhagen bought a summer home in Edgartown, and in 1934 began a series of concerts held in his living room, which held an audience of 150, in which he was joined by his wife, a soprano, who was also a native of Arnheim.Van Koppenhagen, Otto
"The Dream Life of Balso Snell" appeared in 1931, "Miss Lonelyhearts" in 1933, "A Cool Million" in 1934, and "The Day of the Locust" in 1939.West, Nathanael
Field Terrace honors Harold C. Field 1894, treasurer of the University from 1934 to 1949.Wriston Quadrangle