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...change is an "outgrowth of requests" made by the Brown student council, and comes as a result of a new administration feeling that "juniors and seniors are handling themselves well in their studies," K. Roald Bergethon, Dean of the College, said...
This was not an isolated case, for several other boys were also summoned to explain their criticisms. K. Roald Bergethon, dean of the college, explained that he called up two or three boys last year for various reasons, but "not primarily because they wrote a critical letter." He said he was mainly interested in finding out exactly what the complaint was so he could understand it better. Labovitz agreed that Bergethon seemed sincerely interested in solving problems, but he criticized the other deans for "rapping him (Labovitz) on the knuckles." At any rate, a dean would have to be somewhat...
Coca Colas are still permitted, but the University has announced that "the serving of alcoholic beverages at social functions is prohibited. . ." In announcing the ban, Brown's Dean Bergethon said that he hoped the ruling would "strengthen the hand of students who oppose this kind of behavior...
...only minor protests to the university-wide prohibition have been reported. "I have felt that most students have understood this ban and have taken it well," Bergethon said...
...their search for solid grounds, the students have not surrendered their right to criticize, nor do they seem any more susceptible than their parents to blind acceptance of dogma. As a matter of fact, says Kaare Roald Bergethon, dean of the college at Brown University, the students seem so tolerant of the beliefs of others that "if I had seen this same phenomenon in the '30s, I would have thought it was indifference, but today I know it isn't." This tolerance has meant that old gods have not been dethroned; they have merely been demoted. "Science students...
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