Word: brower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Palamountain, who became senior tutor in 1951, planned to go to Wesleyan this September. It is believed that he stayed on, however, to assist the new Adams Housemaster, Reuben A. Brower. Brower took over the post this year, succeeding the late David M. Little...
Robert Frost '99, Pulitzer prize winning poet and former member of the Board of Overseers, has been appointed an honorary associate of Adams House, Master Reuben A. Brower announced yesterday...
...memorial portrait of David M. Little '18, former Master of Adams House, was unveiled last night in the Adams House library. Master Reuben A. Brower and Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, spoke briefly about Little. "The portrait has been given by the generosity of Master Little's friends," Brower said. Demos, in his eulogy, said, "he made the spirit and morale of the House. He was a stranger who very quickly became friends with everybody...
...Brower's other main interest is the theatre. While a student at Amherst he was president of the famed Amherst Masquers with whom he did considerable acting. Now, though retired from the stage, he reads the theatre pages like others read the sports section, knowing the details of Broadway shows as baseball fans know batting averages...
With his two new jobs, Brower will have little time for walking and theatre going. But though he will certainly become as deeply enmeshed in his new position as he does in everything else, he has wisely decided to keep his house in Belmont as a "home for tired academics." There he can retire with his wife, three children and the Sunday theatre section and escape at least for a day the ceaseless drumming on the door of Apthrop House...