Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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Book I. The Story of Brown Page 13 HE: Sronv o B R OMTN l T IS a long journey from the struggling days of James Manning to the pros- Perous, broadened administration of William Herbert Perry Faunce, from the customs and thoughts and simplicity of that time to the complicated life of today- The faithful progressiveness of many high-minded men and the incessant Fhange of an ever-advancing world have swept the tiny infant of a college that was born is 17B4 to its present matured state of intellectual attainment and material expansion. he Journey was one of suffering and gradual achievementg and, to those of us who now form a part of that endless stream flowing through the historic halls of Brown, the 53:1 EZ that journey may bring the power of a great tradition and the sense of an infinite l BY the middle of the eighteenth centiu'y practically all the dominant religious sects ln the. American colonies had become sufiiciently well-moulded to vent their intellectual Lgearnings in the establishment of universities. The Congregationalists had conceived Clarvard and Yale 5 the Presbyterians, the College of New Jerseyg the Reformed Dutch C urch. Rutgers Collegeg and the Episcopalians, the University of Pennsylvania, Olumbla, and William and Mary College. The Baptists were proud of their tradition frnd creed and 8'I'0wing strength: they too must have a college -- for manifold reasons. hwentlf Years of faint murmuring broke forth into an urgent cry and, at last, in 1763, t 9 Phlladelbhla Baptist Association sent James Manning to establish a Baptist college 'WWW' in Rhode Island. the ghe Association had made an admirable choiceg in 1764 ' ,we -1 5 whicheneral .Assembly granted the new college a charter B 44 - Corporal? still in. force and soon. after, at the second dent Rfnd meeting, James Manning was chosen presi- at Wan, 0 eRIsland College, as it was then called, existed Universitenfl-I I-, during five years. By that time, built Y al and a house for the president had been . at 3 9081: Of 510,000, and the institution moved to 1tS present site in Providence. -X ---- -lllll-lla