Identifier: memoriesofbrownt00brow (find matches)
Title: Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Brown, Robert Perkins, ed Palmer, Henry Robinson, b. 1867, joint ed Koopman, Harry Lyman, 1860-1937, joint ed Brigham, Clarence S. (Clarence Saunders), 1877-1963, joint ed
Subjects: Brown University
Publisher: Providence, R.I., Brown Alumni Magazine Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ched thesecond story by a series of involuntary somersaults. Inmy rapid descent I received other injuries besides theone above mentioned. My trousers and coat were badlytorn, and I lost a cane, a hat and a handkerchief, eachhaving my name on it. There seemed to be no chance for me to prove an alibiwhen President Barnas Sears should summon the sus-pected participants in that smoking-out into his pres-ence. In the end, however, no one was made to feel the weightof the facultys displeasure for that nights uproar, andfrom the infernal regions — as Plutos ofiEice wascalled — I afterward recovered my property, upon which not even the smell of fire had passed. One excessively scared sophomore, in desperate eager-ness to avoid the clutches of Piute, climbed out thewindow of a third-story room and by the waterspout lead-ing from the roof to the ground made his escape, minustrousers and much cuticle from legs and hands. A. H. Nelson, 1858. 140 Memories of Brown The Duel.—In Three Chapters
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Chapter IWhy It Was OME, now, this will never do, gentlemendont settle their disputes with theirx^^^ fists, I said, as I jumped ^^** between two of my class-mates, who, in the room ofone of them on that long-tobe-remembered afternoon in March of 1857, had suddenly begun to strike at eachother with seemingly angry purpose. The day had beenan unusually fine one for that time of the year, and con-sequently Westminster street—in those days the fashion-able promenade of Providence—had been thronged withyoung men and maidens, among the former the studentbody of Brown University having a large representation,each and all being there with flirtatious intent. Four of the promenaders having sought a favorite ren-dezvous of the juniors in the room of Mr. Clarence Batesof Louisville, Ky., the incidents of the afternoon werebeing discussed with great glee and much bantering as topossible conquests, when suddenly Mr. Charles P. Wil-liams of New York made some disparaging remark abouta certain y

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