Word: browne
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Brunonian explains that Brown has determined to send no crew to Saratoga for the following "simple" reasons, which cannot help being "satisfactory to the most ardent friend of Brown or the dullest intellect": first, one of their best men could not row, for reasons not made public, and of course they would not send a crew which did not contain all "their best men"; and secondly, they owe "quite a sum" for last year's expenses, and wisely consider that it is best to incur no new debts until the old ones are paid...
...BROWN will not send a Freshman crew to Saratoga. - Courant...
...called universities they resemble each other in anything beyond their names. Certain groups of colleges can be made so that the colleges in each group will resemble each other and differ from the other groups. For instance, Columbia, Princeton, Yale, and Harvard might form a group; Amherst, Dartmouth, Brown, and Wesleyan, another; and so on. This is not a fine classification, but it is safe to say that the more one of these groups keeps itself from the rest the less trouble there will be. We may have, some day, one standard university which it will...
...present, in the various departments of Harvard University, including of course candidates for Masters' and Doctors' degrees and resident graduates not candidates for a degree, 105 representatives from 52 different universities, colleges, or scientific schools, from seven to nine students coming from each of these five colleges, - Amherst, Bowdoin, Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale. There are also about 162 graduates of some department of Harvard who are continuing their studies in the same or a different course. That is to say, out of the 1,278 students in the University, 105, or nearly one twelfth, have come from some other college...
...Brown...