Word: browne
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...question now coming up in regard to the admission of new colleges to the privileges of the Association, it was found that four had applied, namely, Union, Hamilton, Rutgers, and New York College, while Brown and Amherst had applied for readmission. On motion of Harvard, Amherst and Brown were readmitted, with the privileges of the floor but not of voting. The other four were rejected by the Convention by a greater or less majority, Union being excluded by a majority of only one. Harvard, on the ground of expediency, voted against them all. A motion was also carried providing...
Meanwhile Amherst and Brown, who had been denied a vote on the definite interpretation of the word any in the amendment to the Constitution passed April 2, 1873, - whereby "any college not represented in any Annual Regatta of this Association shall not be considered a member of this Association, or have any vote in its convention," - feeling themselves aggrieved, and Harvard, fearing that injustice might possibly be done, moved a reconsideration, which was carried. Their cases being taken up separately, it was decided to allow Brown a vote, who, by the irregular calling of the last Convention, was unrepresented through...
...opening meeting of the Art Club was held on Tuesday evening. The officers elected are, - President, A. Belmont, Jr.; Secretary, F. T. Brown; Treasurer, J. F. Slade...
...novels (ycleped Beadle's) can now read the "Charge of the Light Brigade" and other rather ennobling pieces, at a like price. Could the piracy so indiscriminately employed with the books of English authors be turned to some public good, the school-boy of the future might buy "Tom Brown" for a dime, and the poorest family might have its Bible, Shakspere, and Principles of Political Economy...
...Brown, '77, coxswain...