Raymond C. Archibald's published works included "Carlyle’s First Love, Margaret Gordon, Lady Bannerman" in 1910, "Euclid’s book On Division of Figures" in 1915, "A Semicentennial History of the American Mathematical Society, 1888-1938" in 1938, and "Outline of the History of Mathematics" in 1932 and five subsequent editions.Archibald, Raymond C.
In 1938 the first floor auditorium became the Biological Sciences Library, and three modern laboratories for beginning classes were installed on the first floor.Arnold Laboratory
In 1938 astronomy was reestablished as a separate department with Smiley as chairman.Astronomy
In 1938 the Advisory and Executive Committee of the Corporation defined the duties of the Athletic Council as purely policy-making, and made the Director of Athletics directly responsible to the University administration.Athletics
Athletic directors at Brown have been Fred Eugene Parker from 1895 to 1903, Frederick W. Marvel from 1903 to 1938, Thomas W. Taylor from 1938 to 1942, Walter H. Snell, acting director from January to June 1943 and director until 1946, Paul F. Mackesey from 1947 to 1962, Edward R. Durgin from 1962 to 1963, Philip R. Theibert from 1963 to 1968, John M. Heffernan from 1968 to 1971, Ferdinand A.Athletics
One highlight of that season was Pryor’s single-game record of 34 points, which was unbroken until 1938.Basketball
The team of 1938-39, coach George "Eck" Allen’s first team, was chosen to represent New England in the first championship tournament conducted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.Basketball
Harry Platt ’40 broke all of Brown’s scoring records with a single game score of 48 points against Northeastern in 1938, a season scoring record of 404 in 1937-38, and a career record of 866.Basketball
Arthur D. Kahler coached from 1931 to 1938, George E. "Eck" Allen from 1938 to 1941, William H. H. Dye in 1941-42, Wilbur C. "Weeb" Ewbank (who much later made a name for himself in pro football by coaching both the Baltimore Colts and the New York Jets to league championships) in 1946-47, Robert B. Morris from 1947 to 1954, Stan Ward from 1954 to 1969, Gerry Alaimo from 1969 to 1978, Joe Mullaney from 1978 to 1981, Mike Cingiser from 1981 to 1991, and the present coach, Frank "Happy" Dobbs.Basketball
George Houston Bass (1938-1990), professor of Afro-American studies, was born in Nashville on April 23, 1938.Bass, George H.
When a destructive hurricane struck New England on September 21, 1938, during freshman week, eight upperclassmen who were on campus to greet the freshmen managed to get out by candlelight a mimeographed one-page edition of the "Herald," followed by a similar two-page issue the next day.BDH Brown Daily Herald
The lobster hatchery suffered damage in the hurricanes of 1938 and 1944, and the work there was discontinued.Biology
The boat house was dedicated on May 7, 1938 at an Intercollegiate Dinghy Racing Association Regatta sponsored by the Brown Yacht Club.Boat House
In 1938 Harcourt Brown was awarded the Prix Moulin of the Academie des Sciences, Arts et Belles Lettres of Caen for his paper on French physician André Graindorge.Brown, Harcourt
From 1938 to 1944 the members of the Key were elected by the sophomore class.Brown Key
Harold S. Bucklin was involved with many of the social institutions in Rhode Island and served as chairman of the Americanization Commission in 1919 and member of the Children’s Law Commission in 1926 and of the Juvenile Court Commission in 1938.Bucklin, Harold S.
In September 1952 the statue was removed to a new home in front of the Sharpe Refectory, and there Caesar Augustus still stands, unfortunately having been relieved of his right arm, which had already been replaced after being broken off during the hurricane of 1938.Caesar Augustus
In the spectacular hurricane of September 21, 1938, when downtown Providence was flooded, Brown, with four hundred freshmen on campus for Freshman Week, suffered only minor damage.Campus
Robert P. Casey was a member of the Van Expedition, sponsored by the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania and the Brown Department of Biblical Literature, in 1938 and 1939 to excavate the ancient city of Van in Turkish Armenia.Casey, Robert P.
After three years with the law firm of Tillinghast and Collins in Providence, Zechariah Ã07 Chafee began his teaching career at Harvard in 1916 as assistant professor of law, and became full professor in 1919, Langdell Professor of Law in 1938, and University Professor in 1950.Chafee, Zechariah Ã07
Retiring in 1938 after 26 years as chapel director, Miss Davis recalled the early days of daily religious chapel services, when the women students were forbidden to bring books into the chapel or to talk above the top landing of Pembroke Hall, and the change to once a week exercises, the subjects of which went so far afield as a demonstration of fire apparatus.Chapel
This Charter was later placed in a bank vault, which unfortunately was flooded during the hurricane of September 21, 1938.Charter
The cheering squad grew from five in 1936 to seven in 1938 to nine in 1938, while adding acrobatices to their performance.Cheering
In 1938 the Metcalf Research Laboratory, another gift from Mr. Metcalf, was built to Kraus’s specifications, with one exception – his idea that the top floor be used for dormitory space for graduate students did not appeal to President Wriston and got his veto.Chemistry
Members of the Class of 1938 were the last to receive the Ph.B. degree.Degrees
"Curriculi-Curricula," produced in 1938, was described by "Variety" as the best college show in the country, and was favorably viewed in dress rehearsal by George M. Cohan, who was made an honorary member of Brownbrokers.Dramatics
In 1938 the Faculty Club moved to the house at 1 Megee Street, the former home of Zachariah Allen1813, designed by Alfred Stone and built in 1864, which had become the home of William Ely 1878.Faculty Club
The sun-dial on the south wall of Faunce House was a gift from Delta Phi in 1938 in observance of the centennial of the Brown chapter.Faunce House
In the 1938 hurricane it was blown down and its top was broken off.Flagpole
In January 1938 the chapter voted to discontinue itself after a series of misfortunes which included foreclosure of its mortgage, the pledging of few freshmen, and damage to the heating system in an attempted theft of the house’s oil burner during Christmas vacation.Fraternities
In 1938 the fraternity had a house at 32 George Street.Fraternities
He came to Brown in 1930 as assistant professor of classics, and was promoted to associate professor in 1938 and professor in 1945.Herbert Newell Couch
Art Lesieur, who also played for the Reds, coached in 1938-39, but the next year hockey was discontinued again for financial reasons.Hockey
Hockey coaches at Brown have been James H. Gardner in 1926-27, Jean Dubuc from 1927 to 1929, Thomas W. Taylor from 1929 to 1932, Robert Taylor from 1931 to 1933, Thomas W. Taylor again from 1933 to 1938, and Arthur J. Lesieur in 1938-39.Hockey
The University purchased the building from the the estate of Willard S. Achorn in 1938.Horace Mann House
Charles A. Kraus was awarded the William H. Nichols Medal of the New York section of the American Chemical Society in 1924, the Theodore William Richards Medal of the Chicago section in 1935 and the Northeastern section in 1936, the Willard Gibbs Medal of the Chicago section in 1935, the Franklin Medal in 1938 and the Priestly Medal in 1950.Kraus, Charles A.
The 1938 "Liber Brunensis," while noting that there were promising players in the Classes of 1940 and 1941, announced, "Lacrosse has been abandoned."Lacrosse
Frederick William Marvel (1869-1938), first director of intercollegiate athletics at Brown, was born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, on Christmas Day 1869.Marvel, Frederick W.
At first known as the Brown Gymnasium, the building was rededicated at the fourth annual Alumni Day dinner in the gymnasium on October 7, 1938, by Vice-president James P. Adams as a memorial to the recently deceased Frederick Marvel, which "for as long as it shall endure ... shall be known as the Frederick William Marvel Gymnasium in memory of a loyal son of Brown who gave a lifetime in her service."Marvel Gymnasium
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
The department grew steadily with the arrival of William Dinneen in 1938, Francis K. C. Madeira in 1943, Edward B. Greene in 1946, Martin Fischer in 1947, Otto van Koppenhagen in 1949, Millard S. Thomson and Mildred Pansy in 1950, David Laurent in 1951, Ron Nelson in 1956, and Paul Nelson in 1964.Music
When the first publication of scientific cuneiform texts was happening, Neugebauer, realizing that the translators did not understand the mathematics involved, undertook the work himself, and between 1935 and 1938 published a three-volume edition of Babylonian mathematical texts.Neugebauer, Otto
Robert Gale Noyes earned his Ph.D. at Harvard and became an assistant professor there before he returned to Brown in 1938 as associate professor of English.Noyes, Robert Gale
In the 1938-39 Pembroke College catalogue the name of the program was changed from "A Course for the Training of Teachers of Nursing" to "A Course in Nursing Education."Nursing program
Vincent A. Tomas came in 1938, Roderick M. Chisholm and Richard C. Taylor in 1947, John Ladd in 1950, John W. Lenz in 1953, and Richard Schmitt in 1958.Philosophy
Elliott kept this job until 1864, and was succeeded in the position by William Douglas 1839 from 1864 to 1879, Francis W. Douglas 1868 from 1879 to 1884, Gilman P. Robinson 1878 from 1884 to 1889, John C. Stockbridge 1838 from 1889 to 1891, and Frederick T. Guild 1890 from 1891 to 1938.Registrar
The Registrars of the Women’s College and Pembroke College were Emma Bradford Stanton 1896 from 1897 to 1932, Mildred Williamson Cull ’29 from 1932 to 1938, Esther Hervey Smith from 1938 to 1946.Registrar
The remodelled boat house was dedicated on May 7, 1938 at an Intercollegiate Dinghy Racing Association Regatta.Sailing
Brown won national championships in 1942 and 1948 and was runner-up in 1938, 1949, and 1956.Sailing
In the issue of February 1938 the editors, marking the end of the second year of publication and ready to turn the magazine over to a new board, took stock of their achievements: "We have given you a different type of magazine than any you have previously been offered.Sir Brown
Charles H. Smiley was appointed assistant professor of mathematics at Brown in 1930 and associate professor of astronomy in 1938, at which time he was also made director of the Ladd Observatory and chairman of the Department of Astronomy.Smiley, Charles H.
Harold A. Gibbard and Clarence Glick were instructors and later assistant professors of sociology from 1938 to 1946.Sociology
Angell House at 15 Keene Street, the former home of Walter Angell 1880, was given by Stephen O. Metcalf in 1938 and used as a Pembroke College dormitory.Student housing
The coaches after Archie Hahn were Alfred W. Haddleton, who had coached at Providence Technical High School and Moses Brown School and filled in at Brown in 1920-21, James E. Smith 1892 from 1921 to 1923, John Frederick Powers, former Notre Dame track star and coach at Worcester Academy, from 1924 to 1938, and Malcolm Williams from 1938 to 1941.Track
In 1938 an anonymous donor, not a Brown graduate, gave $100,000 toward the fifth major reconstruction of University Hall and a year later added a similar amount.University Hall
When Wach, who had first taken out his citizenship papers in 1938, applied for United States citizenship in 1946, his first petition in February was denied and his second in August granted.Wach, Joaquim
After the damage caused to the wiring by the 1938 hurricane, the lines were connected to the dormitory radiators, which served as antennae.WBRU
Karl S. Weimar received his bachelor’s degree in 1937, his master’s in 1938, and his Ph.D. in 1944, all from the University of Pennsylvania.Weimar, Karl S.
Other honors included the Kossovo Medal of the Royal Red Cross of Yugoslavia, in 1931, the Monticello College Centenary Medal in 1938, and the Cristobol Colon Medal in 1940.Woolley, Mary Emma