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While Harvard was forced to embark on a nation-wide alumni fund drive to raise money from College graduates, Brown was able to get $3 million from all the people of Rhode Island, by selling itself as an "integral part of the community." One can only wonder at the effect of such a local appeal campaingn in the Greater Cambridge area...
Brown's administrators have little trouble with either the city of Providence or the state of Rhode Island. Indeed each side is constantly striving to co-operate with the other. In 1956, when the land on which Brown's new Dexter-Aldrich athletic facilities are being built was first offered for sale, President Barnaby C. Keeney confidently expressed Brown's interest and need for the property in the knowledge that "our relations with the city have long been mutually beneficial...
...charge sometimes heard that Brown is a haven for rich boys and tough on local students is said to be completely erroneous. According to D. Bruce Hutchinson, Assistant Director of Admissions, Rhode Island boys are Brown's first responsibility. Although the college is naturally concerned with geographical distribution, Hutchinson asserted, "The local boys admitted hardly begin to fill up the college...
...York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island have already passed legislation to help the Railroad continue service by exempting it from about $6.2 million in taxes...
...opposition Sunday led to different results, however. Crimson sailors assured themselves a place in the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association Dinghy Championships May 12 and 13 by amassing a total of 76 points, well ahead of the 60-point score on which both Babson Institute and the University of Rhode Island ran aground...