Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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isating preseribed in the outioated state constitltion of Rhode ldand by appeslirg airectly o the beonie, Folowing Dor s lead the pectle beld a convertion in the fall of 184 af which they framed 5 new constitution edualizing representation arg broadening sufferage duolifications In April Do wo eected governor under the new corstitution but both he and his con. sttution failed to receive recoanition by the Federol Government: the esit was that Dorr attempied twice once in Moy and once in June to secure the righie of the peope throlgh armed rebellion Cn collene hill the controversy was approachec from the academic paint of view, lhe sympathy of modt of the colene officials lay with the tonservat ves bt Professor Willom G Goddard 1ooe up 1o slippor with viaor the hew doveriment ihe lett Brown ot the end of the semedler Whenthececond o iebellion biole ot and Dore e People Army apbroached the city frem one cide and the Fedensl troons poured into if frem the other the renllorireale idbaraccshece ot Brown Lin aranting the recuest i was decioed that ety woud be almost Impossibie in themidit of s politcal tevlltion and 0 with troops once more guartered in her Hale tha U ollene for the second Hine s - - o troops were quartered af the College only a few days Dorr and his men decided on o dhrateaic rout at fiet sight of the reaulars Bt lbad enciugh, no doubt for the now - that other war Tor freedon which bad b o made e OF 1 nterion w w Just three years atter Dorr made a name Feir himselt LILE folt the reporcueinns od anothe wor Bhis e involy g e L e Medica lhe reperciiio e s e s Beun was conicel woie almost entirely within the College Fo The i?kh 2 Emmi ar s B Y 8 Y g A 4 Ayf fee The campls o5 o whoe from ol formation that canbe obtained we ha 0l Aware That ifs countny was of Wl e dent Brancs Waylond on the oihe Bang was consicerably bothered by he Wl aftar bating b oo tion on ot drolnde i seeniad 0 B pabionel e edness, and he described it at one time as oborigine wicked nlamos neons foral indesian and upid o thoiing denraved 0 s manacemeat L throuanthe condioa i L 0le 01 D MG lond did LI bear of Bl 0 0 0 o0 1 Anna,

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University Hall in 1800 Finaly on May 27, 782 considerably educated in the ruder facts of life, UH bid farewell to the last hobbling Frenchman and prepared to commence life anew, But the Colleqe Edifice was not what it sed to be Said President Manning, lhe Cor poration have ordered the augean Stable cleansed . lisleftina most horrid, dirry, Shattered Situation . . the infolerable stench renders the Northern Part uninhab- itable. . Surmounting ol obstacles, how ever Brown in September 7182 again took Up its title as the seat of learning in Rhode lsland, . N . Some 10 vears later LH once more viewed the shadow of war descend upon the campus, but this Time is was not sa real no Englshmen spprosched anywhere near the campus in the Warof 1817 New England as o whole did not approve of the war life of Brown wasnt greatly alterec. lhe campus, however, veos not completely Unaware of the existence of war. Most notable Brown war effort s revealed in a record of Zechariah Allen, class of 1813, who notes that Brown stu- dents were among those who contributed 3100 work days in the constiiction of the defenses of Providence. Although infor. mation as to Browns role in the War of 1812 Is scarce, one might assume that o good number of Bruins entered the armed services since the total enrollment dropped from 135in 181204 BB w w w in 1842 University Hall saw the peaceful Brown campus receive ifs third rude mili- rary awakening in seventy vears. The cause this time was a Harverd graduate one Thomas W, Dorr. who decided fo forego the difficult and circuitous method of leg.

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But Univers ity Hall did not have 1o wail l0na 1o have it academic bliss shockingly interripted In 1861 the vl War de scepced Upon the lnited Statee and it did not take lena for the Black oo of repellion to ervelop the Brown campis, Cin April J when news reached the C ol lecie on the Hill the exciterment was ntense lso we re lole and two days later four memoers of the senior class and severdl from the other classes enlisied with Little Rhody s own General Burnside Report has it that Professor W llam Gammell omitted recitation of the senior class that day so that men might bid o fond farewell to their departing friends and classmates who were lbaded onte an Army trancport ot Pox Font, In May, 78 of the students lett behind formed the University Cadets later to be- come Company Frst Regiment, Second Brigade, R. I Militia. One vear later the Secretary of War issued a call for volun. teersithe recult on the campus s described by Governor Dyer The students of Brown University could brook no restraint and simost en masse came to our recruib ing rendezvous for enrcllment. The frech man class of 1862 was as big o5 usual, for 8s Henry 5. Burrage said ih B6B The people realized the vital part colleges had in nursing patriotism. Thus the ranks of the student body were not foo drastically depleted. When the summer of 1863 rolled around it folund the people of Rhode lslend in 8 high state of alarm because of reports that the pirate vecsel the Jaconey was on the coast headed toward Narra gansett Bay, The University Cadets were chosen to defend the West Passage and the Governor of the State guaranteed exemption from final examinations to ol who wolld take Up arms against the Taco. ney. hen it was, writes Henry Burrage, that an added charm appeared in the words Dulee et decorum est pro patria mori . From all indications, the hardships were not too great for Brown s valiant sol diers. Burrage, himself a cadet, describes the sacrifices- ' the long exile of two weeks broken by only an occasional fur lough . . the tedious night watches, spent in sound sleep within the folds of warm blankets . . . the blistered hands, won in preparing clambekes the heavy marches in quest o berries and milk the midnight altacks on poultry vards and Navy Boat Drill during World War I -'2.