Word: campus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Library. Stocked to supply the University's big, exceptionally strong Mathematics Department, it contains texts on pure math, its application, and its history. An evidence of the library's strength and completeness is the location of the headquarters of the American Mathematical Society across the street from the Brown campus. Recently the Math department mailed its six millionth microfilm of a rare text to an interested person...
...meet the problem, the College authorities have required returning veterans and students who have been away from Brown to live off campus in the numerous boarding houses nearby...
Freshmen are largely but not completely segregated in older dormitories around the central campus where class and administration buildings are located, and local students are being encouraged--though not required--to live at home. Still, with applications constantly increasing, the problem remains a serious...
...another respect, Brown already parallels Cambridge. For the simple pleasures of feminine companionship, the Brownie need shuffle only three blocks through the leaves to arrive at the small campus of his sister college--Pembroke. Here, some 800 women enjoy a position similar in all but administrative setup to that of the Radcliffe student in Cambridge. They attend classes with Brown students on the Brown campus and have the same faculty. Their exact relationship to the College is difficult to describe; like so many other things at Brown, it is without pattern or precedent. It just grew...
Another example of natural growth on the Brown campus is the sudden increase of student interest in the educational process. The aims and methods of Wriston's program have captured the undergraduate imagination--perhaps because for the first time the Brown man has been made aware that a college education is more than four years of campus life...