Lyceum Phoenix of Friends School - Phoenix Echo Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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one of his pupils. This noble work continued under this very ac- complished teacher until 1835. In the meanwhile the most eminent man who was ever connected with the School appeared in the 12th Mo., 1832, as literary principal. This person was Dr. John Griscom, LL. D. He brought with him a fine mineral collection, which was purchased by the School, and still remains its property, in constant use. He brought also an extensive library, and valuable and abundant apparatus for lectures in chemistry and natural philoso- phy. He continued until 1835, and was allowed to go, because he was expensive. He was sadly needed by the Society of Friends in New England, and by this community, and his departure was a great public loss. He was much sought, as a lecturer, by the Franklin and Mechanics societies in the city, and by others at Paw- tucket and elsewhere. j He had traveled extensively in Europe in 1818-1819, and pub- lished two very valuable volumes descriptive of his journey, which are exceedingly instructive books even now. He visited Benjamin VVest, Elizabeth Fry, Hannah More, VVilliam Allen, Baron Cuvier, Baron Humboldt, The Marquis de LaFayette, Thomas Clarkson, James Montgomery the poet, Lindley Murray, Francis jeffrey, Sir Walter Scott, Dr. Robert Brown of Edinburgh, Dr. Chalmers, VVil- liam Wordsvxforth, and Robert Southey. He was either invited to the homes and tables of these people, or to join them in dining with mutual friends. The average number of students under this faculty rose to 172 in 1833. Dr. John W. Francis, of New York, said of him that for thirty years Dr. Griscom was the acknowledged head of all teachers of chemistry amongst usf' He was the personal friend and corre- spondent of that eminent chemist, Benjamin Silliman, of Yale. This was the first renaissance at Friends School. The faculty contained other 11ames notable i11 after years. Dr. Pliny Earle, the distinguished superintendent of Northampton Hospital for the In- sane, was one of them. Moses A. Cartland was another, who seems by his genial manner and sympathy with the boys in their life, work, and sports, to have touched the popular heart more, and to be more .affectionately remembered, than any other person in the coterie. Moses Lockwood and jonathan Slocum, Samuel Austin, and Elizabeth H. Osborne, who was later the wife of Samuel Austin-these persons all gave character to the School in this period, and subsequently served it in numberless ways by loyal and faithful efforts in its support. 5

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The descent in the classical department from Samuel J. Gum- mere to George F. Reed must have been sudden, precipitous, and perilous. A fall from the sublime to the ridiculous. The num- bers dropped to an average of 127 at the next report, and in 1837 rose to 134, and fell the next year to 79, and a loss of one thousand dollars. The School was broken up with scarlet fever. The year was now, for the first time, divided into two terms, as it has been ever since that time. Some stories have come to us about George F. Reed which ought to be preserved. He was convinced that horseback riding was healthful exercise, and he purchased a horse. It was brought, bridled and saddled, to the front door, and, with the wrong foot in the stirrup, he mounted into the saddle but could not find the head of the horse without facing right about. He next secured a chaise and harness, and, after driving, left the poor creature at the door without nourishment, and retired to rest. There was a deep frost that night, and the morning light disclosed the track of the chaise in and out among the trees in the girls' grove. The hungry beast had wandered in vain in quest of food, drink, and slumber. The wheels had described every curve known to mathematics, and marked out serpentine avenues everywhere, without regard to expense. Moses Brown, whose most enduring monument left in this world is Friends School, and whose memory and character will be more and more revered in the far-off years, departed this life on the Sixth day of the Ninth Mo., 1836, then almost ninety-eight years of age. Fifteen thousand dollars more came to the School by his will. It was residuary legatee upon a condition. He has set in fadeless colors the influence of his useful life-work on these hills and in these valleys. W'herever commerce, wherever the arts and humanities touch and ennoble the race, Moses Brown is present, though his name may not pass from lip to lip. Fear not but that thy light once more shall burn, Ouce more thine immemorial gleam return. The average number of students reported was seventy-seven in 1839, in the next year it was eighty-six. The library, which con- tained the most or all of the books of Moses and Obadiah Brown, had, in the opinion of the Committee, reached the limit, as it con-