Student essays and orations, 1786-1983.

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Student essays and orations, 1786-1983.

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Consists of student essays, addresses, and notebooks, dating from 1786 to 1983. The Student essays and notebooks series includes primarily titled essays but there are also untitled essays, Latin exercises, compositions, copied texts, and class day addresses. Some of the essays have an inscription that indicates the course and faculty member for which they were written. The Commencement orations series dates from 1866 to 1983, however, there are additional commencement addresses in the Student essays and notebooks series; thus, commencements dating from 1789 to 1983 are documented. Although there are many students represented in the collection, there are numerous writings from some students. There are student essays by Lorenzo Bishop, Zechariah Chafee, James Osgood Andrew Clark, Theodore Francis Green, Ratcliffe Hicks, Edward Lillie Pierce, Winslow Upton, and William Warren Whitman. There are prize winning essays by James Osgood Andrew Clark and Edward Lillie Pierce and a commencement address by Zechariah Chafee.

614 essays (6.3 linear ft.)

Brown University Archives, John Hay Library

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Clark, James Osgood Andrew, 1827-1894.

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Chafee, Zechariah, 1859-1943

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Bishop, Lorenzo, 1785-1809.

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Whitman, William Warren, 1820-1902.

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Pierce, Edward Lillie, 1829-1897

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Hicks, Ratcliffe, 1843-1906

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Upton, Winslow, 1853-1914

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Winslow Upton (born in Salem, Massachusetts, 12 October 1853; died Providence, Rhode Island, 8 January 1914) was a United States astronomer. He graduated from Brown University. He was an assistant at the Harvard Observatory for several years, then assistant engineer of the Army Engineer Corps' Lake Survey. Upton became a computer at the Naval Observatory in Washington in 1880. He worked with the United States Signal Office from 1881 to 1883. In May of 1883 he accompanied a group of scientists to...