CORNELL 
 
 UNIVERSITY 
 
 LIBRARY 
 
 GIFT OF 
 
 Daniel Smiley 
 
 FIHE ARTS 
 
BROWN 
 UNIVERSITY 
 
 ii;-/ai ^^ii^:,ir;iii 
 
 PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND 
 
 PUBLISHED FOR THE UNIVERSITY 
 
Ptl5 
 
 
 THE CARRIE TOWER 
 
 
 ^ 
 
BROWN UNIVERSITY 
 
 UNIVERSITY HALL {1770) 
 
 THE aim of the founders of Brown University is 
 succinctly stated in the original charter of 
 1 764 : To form " the rising Generation to 
 Virtue, Knowledge, and useful Literature ; " and thus 
 to preserve in the community "a Succession of Men 
 duly qualified for discharging the Ofifices of Life with 
 Usefulness and Reputation." To this high purpose 
 the university, during its century and a half of history, 
 has held true. In common with the other New Eng- 
 land colleges of the older type, it has cherished the 
 conservative ideal of a well-rounded intellectual train- 
 ing conducive equally to the happiness of the individ- 
 ual and the prosperity of the state. 
 
 BROWN University, seventh in age among the 
 six hundred colleges of the United States, has 
 been differentiated, however, from its neigh- 
 bors of pre-Revolutionary origin by its environment. 
 It was founded in 1764 on Colonial soil that had been 
 definitely dedicated more than a century before to the 
 
 Aim of the 
 Founders 
 
 Dedicated 
 to 
 
 Liberty of 
 Conscience 
 
BROWN UNIVERSITY 
 
 THE ELMS OF COLLEGE HILL 
 John Hay Library from College Street 
 
 cause of religious freedom, and it partook of this free- 
 dom from the beginning, as the charter provisions 
 for its government show. Alone among the early 
 colleges of America, it admitted to its governing 
 boards representatives of all the prominent Christian 
 denominations of the day, and incorporated in its fun- 
 damental law this wise and generous principle : " Into 
 this liberal and catholic Institution shall never be 
 admitted any religious Tests. But on the contrary, 
 all the Members thereof shall forever enjoy full, free, 
 absolute, and uninterrupted Liberty of Conscience." 
 A New England poet has called it "the Oxford 
 of the liberties of Man." 
 
 Early 
 History 
 
 THE university was chartered in 1764 under the 
 name of Rhode Island College, provision being 
 made in the charter for a subsequent change of 
 name if this should be desired. The work of the col- 
 
BROWN UNIVERSITY 
 
 JOHN HAY LIBRARY FROM THE CAMPUS 
 Van Wickle Gates in Foreground 
 
 lege began at Warren, Rhode Island, under the direc- 
 tion of the Reverend James Manning, a graduate of 
 the College of New Jersey (Princeton), who was ap- 
 pointed president and also "professor of languages 
 and other branches of learning." 
 
 The first class of seven members was graduated at 
 Warren in 1 769. The next year the college was moved 
 to Providence, and University Hall was erected by 
 popular subscription. From December, 1776, to 1782 
 the Revolutionary War interrupted the college exer- 
 cises. University Hall for a time was used as a 
 barrack and hospital for the American and French 
 allies. 
 
 In 1804 the college was renamed Brown University, 
 in honor of Nicholas Brown of the class of 1786, a 
 member of one of the best-known families of Provi- 
 dence, and a generous benefactor of the institution. 
 
BROWN UNIVERSITY 
 
 9 
 
 ^P 
 
 M 
 
 Hm 
 
 
 ^^ 
 
 ^^^M 
 
 ^^P^^S 
 
 ^^K 
 
 ii 1 1 Ilffi IMiMlf^S 
 
 
 IK^^SIh 
 
 hP 
 
 ^^^ 
 
 H 
 
 ^^Piy 
 
 3^ "'■ "' '^,.— .^" 
 
 Hf^S 
 
 ^ 
 
 ^B 
 
 H 
 
 ^^Mf 
 
 
 
 ■ B 
 
 iw 
 
 ^^Bi 
 
 |ffi 
 
 l>^l^2^li^W <lol ^K 
 
 
 ?" 
 
 B - 
 
 ^^r«S»^ 
 
 %^J 
 
 1 
 
 ^-KUSk it^sk' ^Bi 
 
 '^^ll 
 
 
 y 
 
 m^^HUi^aREi^ 
 
 '^1 
 
 ■kuda 
 
 2 
 
 SH 
 
 
 HOPE COLLEGE (1822) AND MANNING HALL (18J4) 
 
 The City 
 
 of 
 
 Providence 
 
 M' 
 
 OST of the characteristic New England col- 
 leges are situated in small communities, but 
 Brown University enjoys the advantage of 
 being in a city of 225,000 inhabitants. Providence, 
 the second city of New England, is at the head of 
 Narragansett Bay. It is an important manufacturing 
 centre, and possesses some of the most famous indus- 
 trial plants of the country.- The student in technical 
 courses finds in these establishments an exceptional 
 demonstration of classroom theories, such as is impos- 
 sible in a smaller town. 
 
 Providence is the home of a cultured people. Ex- 
 cellent musical organizations and prominent lecturers,' 
 explorers and scientists appear here from time to time. 
 The Wednesday vesper services annually bring a 
 group of distinguished clergytnen to the college, and 
 there are many organizations, both in and out of the 
 college, which contribute to the intellectual life of the 
 community. 
 
BROWN UNIVERSITY 
 
 SLATER HALL 
 
 THE main collegiate grounds are at the crest of 
 College Hill in Providence, stretching eastward 
 from Prospect to Hope street. The "old brick 
 row " at the head of College street contains the earliest 
 buildings : University Hall, (1770), Manning Hall, 
 (1834), and Hope College, (1822). In striking con- 
 trast to the colonial outlines of these, and yet in es- 
 sential architectural harmony with them, is the newest 
 addition to the university's structures, the John Hay 
 Library, built of white marble in honor of the late 
 distinguished diplomat, a graduate of Brown in the 
 class of 1858, 
 
 The university now possesses thirty buildings de- 
 voted to academic uses. In addition to these there 
 are grouped in the neighborhood of the campus a 
 considerable number of fraternity houses, over which 
 the university authorities maintain a careful though 
 unobtrusive supervision. 
 
 The Women's College buildings and gardens are 
 
 The College 
 on the 
 Hill 
 
BROWN UNIVERSITY 
 
 ■WILSON HALL 
 Physical Laboratory 
 
 Courses 
 of Study 
 
 nearly adjacent, occupying a site on Meeting and 
 Gushing streets. 
 
 The Ladd Astronomical Observatory and the Met- 
 calf Botanical Gardens are at some distance from the 
 campus. 
 
 T 
 
 HERE are five main courses of study in the uni- 
 versity, each four years in length. These lead 
 to five degrees — bachelor of arts, bachelor of 
 philosophy, and bachelor of science in civil, electrical 
 and mechanical engineering. Practically one-half the 
 course leading to the degree of bachelor of arts is re- 
 quired, the other half elective. The course leading to 
 the degree of bachelor of philosophy contains more 
 elective studies. The engineering courses are chiefly 
 composed of required studies. 
 
 The university also grants the degrees of master of 
 arts and doctor of philosophy for advanced vi^ork. The 
 graduate department, with a dean of its ov^^n, annually 
 
BROWN UNIVERSITY 
 
 JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY 
 
 enrolls more than one hundred students, and is a grow- 
 ing factor in the life of the university. 
 
 The courses of study offered by the university have 
 been greatly increased in number by recent additions. 
 Among the new courses are those in Elementary Greek, 
 Nautical Astronomy, Principles of Historical Criticism, 
 Origin and Development of Society, Comparative Study 
 of Constitutions, Jurisprudence, Socialism, Commercial 
 Geography, Greek and Roman Life, the Modern Novel, 
 Victorian Poets, German Lyrical Poetry, the German 
 Drama, the French Drama, Modern Italian Litera- 
 ture, Textual Criticism of the Old Testament, Indus- 
 trial Chemistry, Advanced Organic Chemistry, Re- 
 search Work in Chemistry, Chemical Physiology, 
 Mineralogy, Petrography, Advanced Bacteriology, 
 Embryology, Ornithology, and several new courses in 
 Engineering. The older courses have meanwhile 
 been strengthened and enriched. 
 
BROWN UNIVERSITY 
 
 SPRINcriME ON THE CAMPUS 
 
 Extension 
 Courses 
 
 Library 
 Facilities 
 
 E 
 
 XTENSION courses have been conducted in re- 
 cent years, at hours when teachers can attend, 
 with an attendance of from 250 to 400 teachers 
 annually. These courses are not such as are ordinarily 
 called " university extension courses," given in various 
 places under varying auspices ; but are given in uni- 
 versity halls, in connection with university libraries 
 and laboratories, and students who take the tests and 
 pass the examination in any course may obtain credit 
 toward a university degree. 
 
 EXCEPTIONAL library facilities are available to 
 the student at Brown University. The Main 
 Library contains 170,000 volumes; there are 
 twenty departmental libraries connected with the 
 various seminary rooms and laboratories ; the John 
 Carter Brown Library of more than 20,000 rare vol- 
 umes relating to the history of North and South 
 America before 1800 occupies a beautiful building of 
 its own on the Middle Campus, and with an endow- 
 
BROWN UNIVERSITY 
 
 SUMMER 
 Hope College and Robinson Gateway 
 
 ment fund of ^500,000 is enabled to maintain a fore- 
 most position among similar institutions on either side 
 of the Atlantic. This remarkable library is known to 
 historical students the world over. 
 
 Within the Main Library are four special col- 
 lections, the Harris Collection of American Poetry, 
 numbering 13,000 volumes and possibly the finest of 
 its kind in the world ; the Rider Collection of Rhode 
 Island History ; the Hammond Lamont Collection of 
 3000 carefully chosen books on Enghsh literature, 
 and the Wheaton Collection of standard works on inr 
 ternational law. 
 
 In addition to these rich library resources of the 
 university, there are, within a convenient distance, the 
 Providence Public Library, with 150,000 volumes ; the 
 Providence Athenaeum (on College street), a subscripr 
 tion library of 70,000 volumes, open to Brown students 
 on the payment of a nominal sum ; and other libraries 
 of special character, including the State, State Law 
 
BROWN UNIVERSITY 
 
 SAYLES AND WILSON HALLS 
 Caswell Hall, Engineering •Building and Maxcy Hall in Background 
 
 and Historical Society collections, which, together 
 with the university libraries, offer more than half a mil- 
 lion volumes for casual reading or serious investigation. 
 Not far from the campus is the Annmary Brown 
 Memorial, containing valuable collections of Renais- 
 sance and modern paintings, and a collection of printed 
 books representative of the earliest presses of Europe 
 — one of the finest in existence. This Memorial, 
 housed in a stately granite edifice, is the unique, indi- 
 vidual gift to the public of General Rush C. Hawkins 
 of New York. 
 
 Applied t I AHE classes in engineering are taught in modern 
 Sciences J_ and well-equipped quarters : the Engineering 
 Building on Lincoln Field is well lighted and 
 has the best of technical apparatus. The Chemical 
 Laboratory (Rogers Hall) has been greatly increased 
 in size and facilities, the Physical Laboratory (Wilson 
 Hall) is one of the finest buildings on the campus, and 
 
BROWN UNIVERSITY 
 
 BRUNONIA AND CASWELL HALLS 
 
 the Biological and Botanical departments are provided 
 with highly efficient facilities. The university is affili- 
 ated with the Rhode Island School of Design to the 
 extent of permitting the use by each of the other's 
 equipment. The School of Design uses the univer- 
 sity's machine shops, and in turn provides instruction 
 in architectural drawing, free-hand drawing and paint- 
 ing for the university's students. 
 
 THE dormitories consist of Hope College, Uni- 
 versity Hall, Slater Hall, all facing the Front 
 and Middle Campuses ; Maxcy Hall and Cas- 
 well Hall on Lincoln Field, and Brunonia Hall, the 
 latter a privately owned building on Thayer street. 
 These several dormitories provide a considerable range 
 of accommodations, from single rooms to suites. Gas 
 or electric lights, baths and other modern facilities 
 have been placed in the older buildings as well as in 
 the new. In addition, the several fraternity houses 
 provide comfortable homes for many students. 
 
 Dormitory 
 Accomnio= 
 dations 
 
BROWN UNIVERSITY 
 
 WOMEN'S COLLEGE HALL OF RESIDENCE 
 Now Building 
 
 Women's fTT^HE Women's College occupies at present four 
 College j[_ brick structures : Pembroke Hall, the Slater 
 
 Memorial Homestead, the Sayles Gymnasium 
 and the new hall of residence. It also owns, though 
 it does not yet occupy, an attractive brick residence 
 which will be available for its future growth. Estab- 
 lished in 1 891, the progress of this department of the 
 university has been constant and substantial. It is 
 under the charge of its own dean and has a separate 
 endowment, a student government organization, an 
 alumnae association, a monthly magazine, musical and 
 dramatic clubs, a valuable reference library and the 
 usual other facilities of such institutions. In particu- 
 lar its advantages include instruction by the profes- 
 sorial corps of the university, and free access to the 
 university library. The Women's College graduate 
 receives the regular Brown University diploma. 
 
BROWN UNIVERSITY 
 
 WOMEN'S COLLEGE 
 Pembroke Hall and Sayles Gymnasium 
 
 THE growth of the chapter-house system, involv- 
 ing as it does a certain degree of segregation 
 of undergraduates into groups, is counterbal- 
 anced by the Brown Union, an organization occupy- 
 ing Rockefeller Hall, an elegant and spacious as- 
 sembly house. At the nominal charge of four 
 dollars a year, the student is admitted to the varied 
 comforts and facilities of this handsome structure. 
 Here are centred the activities of many of the under- 
 graduate bodies and institutions — the Brown Daily 
 Herald, the Brunonian, the Liber Brunensis, the 
 Christian Association, the Sock and Buskin (dramatic 
 club), and the athletic organizations. The Brown 
 Union is the common meeting ground of the college 
 democracy. A large addition has lately been made to 
 its permanent endowment by Mr. John D. Rocke- 
 feller, Jr., of the class of 1897. 
 
 Brown 
 Union 
 
BROWN UNIVERSITY 
 
 BROWN UNION 
 Meeting Ground of the College Democracy 
 
 College 
 Athletics 
 
 E 
 
 YMAN Gymnasium provides ample facilities for 
 
 indoor exercise. Attached to it is the Colgate 
 Hoyt Swimming Pool, one of the best of its 
 kind in the country. At Andrews Field there are 
 baseball and football grounds, a cinder running track 
 and the recently erected Marston Field House, well 
 equipped for the uses both of Brown athletes and of vis- 
 iting teams. Brown's record at baseball is unexcelled 
 by that of any other American university ; its foot- 
 ball teams are customarily ranked close to the leaders. 
 
 Brown 
 Teachers 
 
 A 
 
 BROWN University Teachers' Association 
 has been formed, composed of the teaching 
 alumni of the university and alumni of other 
 colleges who are teaching in schools preparing students 
 for Brown. Several annual conventions have been 
 held, with important educational discussions ; and the 
 association has assisted both the university and the 
 schools in solving their common problems. 
 
BROWN UNIVERSITY 
 
 T fTgrn r 
 
 .■■.iftfJV'^^^''-'' 
 
 .e igg QiO ff 
 
 liipi PS m 
 
 ___^'mii-~ 
 
 LYMAN GYMNASIUM 
 Marcus Aurelius Statue in Foreground 
 
 THE list of Presidents since the foundation of the Presidents 
 university is as follows : *** ^^^ 
 
 University 
 
 James Manning, D. D., 1765-1791 ; 
 
 Jonathan Maxcy, D. D., 1797-1802 ; 
 
 Asa Messer, D. D., LL. D., 1804-1826 ; 
 
 Francis Wayland, D. D., LL. D., 1827-1855; 
 
 Barnas Sears, D. D., LL. D., 1855-1867 ; 
 
 Alexis Caswell, D. D., LL. D., 1868-1872 ; 
 
 Ezekiel Gilman Robinson, D. D., LL. D., 1872-1889 ; 
 
 Elisha Benjamin Andrews, D. D., LL. D., 1889-1898; 
 
 William Herbert Perry Faunce, D. D., LL. D., 1899- 
 
 SINCE the foundation of the university, between Brown 
 six and seven thousand students have been Alumni 
 graduated; the number of living graduates is 
 about 3700. 
 
BROWN UNIVERSITY 
 
 While ihe university has graduated many distin- 
 guished men — senators, congressmen, judges, gov- 
 ernors, university presidents and professors, clergy- 
 men, artists, authors, manufacturers and useful men 
 in other lines, yet it is impossible to mention more 
 than a few representative names : 
 
 Tristam Burges, 1796, whose fiery eloquence John Randolph 
 of Roanoke " could not withstand ; " 
 
 Henry Wheaton, 1802, authority on international law; 
 
 Marcus Morton, 1804, Governor of Massachusetts ; 
 
 Adonirara Judson, 1807, pioneer American missionary; 
 
 William L. Marcy, 1808, Secretary of State of the United 
 States ; 
 
 Horace Mann, 1819, foremost organizer of public education ; 
 
 Samuel Gridley Howe, iSzr, reformer and philanthropist; 
 
 John L. Lincoln, 1836, ideal type of college teacher; 
 
 Thomas A. Jenckes, 1838, " father of civil service reform ; " 
 
 Marcus Morton, 1838, Chief Justice of Massachusetts; 
 
 Albert Harkness, 1842, instructor, through his Latin Gram- 
 mar, of the youth of America ; 
 
 James B. Angell, 1849, President of the University of 
 Michigan ; 
 
 J. Lewis Diman, 1851, brilliant expounder of history ; 
 
 Alexander L. Holley, 1853, introducer of the Bessemer 
 process into America ; 
 
 Nathaniel P. Hill, 1856, metallurgical expert and Senator 
 from Colorado ; 
 
 Richard Olney, 1856, Secretary of State of the United 
 S tates ; 
 
 John Hay, 1858, Secretary of State of the United States; 
 
 William W. Keen, 1859, dean of the surgical profession in 
 America ; 
 
 Robert H. Thurston, 1859, professor of mechanical engi- 
 neering at Cornell ; 
 
 Elmer L. Corthell, 1867, engineer and builder in the three 
 Americas ; 
 
 Frederick B. Hall, 1867, present Chief Justice of Connecti- 
 cut; 
 
 E. Benjamin Andrews, 1870, President of Brown Univer- 
 sity and Chancellor of the University of Nebraska ; 
 
 J. B. F. Herreshoff, 1870, leading American chemical engi- 
 neer; 
 
BROWN UNIVERSITY 
 
 Benjamin I. Wheeler, 1875, President of the University of 
 California since 1899 ; 
 
 Charles E. Hughes, 1881, Governor of New York and Jus- 
 tice of the United States Supreme Court; 
 
 Edward C. Stokes, 1883, Governor of New Jersey: 
 
 Hermon C. Bumpus, 1884, Director of the American Mu- 
 seum of Natural History ; 
 
 Joseph Walker, 1887, present Speaker of the Massachusetts 
 House ; 
 
 Everett Colby, 1897, political reformer ; 
 
 John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 1897, philanthropist. 
 
 T 
 
 HE officers of administration and instruction of Faculty 
 the university are one hundred in number, and 
 The executive officers are : Students 
 
 William Herbert Perry Faunce, D. D., LL. D., President ; 
 
 Alexander Meiklejohn, Ph. D., Dean of the University; 
 
 Carl Barus, Ph. D. LL. D., Dean of the Graduate Depart- 
 ment ; 
 
 Lida Shaw King, A. M., Dean of the Women's College ; 
 
 Frederick Taft Guild, A. M., Registrar, and Secretary of 
 the Faculty. 
 
 The number of students in the university approxi- 
 mates one thousand. Of these nearly seven hundred 
 are undergraduate men, nearly two hundred are under- 
 graduate women, and over one hundred are graduate 
 students. Of the latter about two-thirds are men and 
 approximately one-third took their first degrees at 
 other colleges. 
 
 In the student body as a whole, twenty-six states, 
 one territory and five foreign countries, are represented. 
 
CLASS DAY 
 
Cornell University Library 
 NA 6574.BS8A15 
 
 Brown University. 
 
 3 1924 015 385 614 
 
 
 DATE DUE 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 GAYLORD 
 
 
 
 PRINTED INU.S.A.