Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . friend of mine, in the course of aletter written to me, some years ago, gives an anecdote ofPresident Wayland. Dr. Abbott writes : Your uncle, Dr. Wayland, was a grand old man, andalthough I was only one year in college, as a freshman,under him, and only a boy of seventeen at that, I came toentertain the highest regard for him. I remember, with great pleasure, his sermons in thefollowing year at the Baptist church, and especially thesimplicity and clearness of his style. I have some of hissermons now, taken down as I
Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . friend of mine, in the course of aletter written to me, some years ago, gives an anecdote ofPresident Wayland. Dr. Abbott writes : Your uncle, Dr. Wayland, was a grand old man, andalthough I was only one year in college, as a freshman,under him, and only a boy of seventeen at that, I came toentertain the highest regard for him. I remember, with great pleasure, his sermons in thefollowing year at the Baptist church, and especially thesimplicity and clearness of his style. I have some of hissermons now, taken down as I sat in the gallery of thechurch. One day, an exceedingly cold winter Hay, he preached Mi emories o o/B rown 159 with a big pair of mittens on his hands, the church beingrather cold for comfort. His wonderful address at a hallon Dorrance street, on the occasion of the attack of Brookson Sumner, is another of the vivid recollections whichcome up before me, as he stood on the platform, denounc-ing the institution of slavery in the strongest terms. William Leete Stone, 18^ John Carter BrownA University Benefactor 160 Memories of Brown Brown at the Close of the Fifties Brown University from 1855 to 1859 was very differentfrom what it is today. The entire faculty consisted of10 members, the number of resident graduates was 2, andthe number of other students was 223. In 1858-59 thenumber fell to 189. The college buildings consisted offive, namely University Hall, Manning Hall, Hope Col-lege and Rhode Island Hall, together with the presidentshouse, to which, perhaps, should be added also the Uni-versity Grammar School. The library was a very smallaffair. It was housed in the lower story of ManningHall (the chapel being in the upper story), and con-tained, when I entered college, 28,000 volumes. Among the faculty, unquestionably Lincoln, orJohnny Link, as we called him, was by far the mostpopular, as he had been and was destined to be for manyyears. The two men to whom I think I owe
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