In 1948 the eight institutions of the Ivy Group made an agreement that applicants would have until June 15 to accept admission regardless of the date of notification of acceptance, thus making it easier for the student to select a college after hearing from all of them.Admission
It was founded by students from seven European countries in 1948 to strengthen international relations through the exchange of student workers.AIESEC
The Memorial was deeded to the University in 1948, at which time Margaret B. Stillwell, librarian of the collections since 1917, joined the staff of the University with the rank of full professor and continued in that position until her retirement in 1953.Annmary Brown Memorial
In 1948 Professor Rohn Truell organized the Metals Research Laboratory, a semi-autonomous research group concerned primarily with the study of ultrasonic wave propagation in solids.Applied Mathematics
Eddie Eayrs ’16 coached from 1942 to 1948.Baseball
"Brunonia" planet is the name given in 1954, by Dr. S. Arend of the Royal Observatory in Belgium, to a planet originally discovered in 1948.Brown University Glacier
In 1948/49 a mimeographed newspaper of the Naval ROTC Unit called "Fairway" was issued.Brunavian
In 1948 two summer sessions with an enrollment of 964 in the first and 837 in the second were held to alleviate problems of crowded laboratories during the year and the desire of the veterans to make up for lost time in completing their education.Calendar
In 1948 the department presented the first of its very popular Latin Christmas Carol Services.Classics
Rosalie L. Colie was an instructor at Douglass College in 1948-49, and an assistant and associate professor at Barnard College and Columbia from 1949 to 1961.Colie, Rosalie L.
Robert Renwick of the English Department took over coaching the team in 1948.Debating
Egyptology was established as a department of study in 1948 through the will of Theodora Wilbour, who had died in 1947, leaving $750,000 to start the department and endow a chair in Egyptology in memory of her father, Charles Edwin Wilbour 1854.Egyptology
In the first semester of 1948-40 there were 3,261 undergraduate men with the veterans absorbed into the College, and 906 women at Pembroke College.Enrollment
In 1948 a non-profit student corporation of the Club members named Air Brown Inc. purchased a Taylorcraft plane after raising the $400 down payment from twenty members, each of whom contributed twenty dollars.Flying Club
In 1948, when students from Rhode Island State College painted the bear in front of Marvel Gym blue prior to the traditional Brown-Rhode Island football game and Brown students were threatened with expulsion if they entered the Rhode Island State campus in retaliation, flyers from Brown, with their own plane and four others which had been rented, bombarded the campus of Rhode Island State College in Kingston with 20,000 leaflets.Flying Club
The 1948 team was the best since 1932, winning seven of nine games (the two losses were to Harvard and Yale).Football
Henry Thatcher Fowler (1867-1948), professor of biblical literature, was born in Fishkill, New York, on March 4, 1867.Fowler, Henry T.
In 1948 William T. Hastings attracted attention by being the faculty member who was willing to introduce presidential candidate Henry Wallace when he came to speak on the campus.Hastings, William T.
Albert F. Hinrichs resigned from Brown and remained with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and from 1948 to 1953 was with the Division of Finance and Fiscal Policy.Hinrichs, Albert F.
The 1948-49 team finished with a 7-7 record.Hockey
One event of the 1948-49 season which gained national attention was Whiston’s face mask.Hockey
Charles Evans Hughes, (1862-1948), Secretary of State and the only Brown man to run for President of the United States, was born in Glens Falls, New York on April 11, 1862, the son of Reverend David C. Hughes, a Baptist clergyman who was born in Wales.Hughes, Charles Evans 1881
Hugh B. Killough wrote two books, "Raw Materials of Industrialism" in 1929 and "Economics of International Trade" in 1948, with his wife, who was a professor of economics at Wellesley College.Killough, Hugh B.
In 1948 Charles A. Kraus was awarded the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award, the highest honor which the Navy can confer upon a civilian.Kraus, Charles A.
New additions to the faculty were Bjarni Jonsson and Herbert Federer in 1946, Frank M. Stewart in 1947, and E.H. Lee in 1948.Mathematics
His writings included "The Liberal College" in 1920, "Freedom and the College" in 1923, "The Experimental College" in 1930, "Free Speech and its Relation to Self-Government" in 1948, and "Political Freedom; the Constitutional Powers of the People" in 1960, Alexander Meiklejohn was a long-time member of the National Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union.Meiklejohn, Alexander
Edward R. Durgin from 1948 to 1952, when he retired and became dean of students at Brown, Capt.Military education
Carl W. Miller was a member of the National Geographic Society eclipse expedition to Siam in 1948, and was a research associate in the Office of Naval Research Beavertail project at Yale from 1952 to 1954.Miller, Carl W.
The Pembroke Double Quartet, known as the PDQ’s, began about 1948, modeling themselves after the Double Quartet at Amherst.Musical Clubs
It was voted by the Advisory and Executive Committee in 1948 that the name of the building would be Nicholson House.Nicholson House
Miss Skoogland initiated a review of the nursing program, addressing a questionnaire to the 45 graduates from 1936 to 1948, and a meeting of a "Special Committee on the Five Year Program" composed of University and hospital representatives was held on November 3, 1948.Nursing program
Robert H. Bennett ’49, hammer-thrower in the 1948 Olympics, led the Americans in his event and took third with 176 feet, 3 1/2 inches.Olympic Games
The title was changed to Recorder in 1948, and William A. Jewett was appointed to the position.Registrar
Roland G. D. Richardson was dean of the Graduate Department in 1926-27, and dean of the Graduate School which succeeded the department from 1927 until his retirement in 1948.Richardson, Roland G. D.
Brown won national championships in 1942 and 1948 and was runner-up in 1938, 1949, and 1956.Sailing
In the fall of 1948 Brown did not succeed in defending its trophies because Ill and Wilson elected to withdraw in order to give the less experienced Brown sailors a chance to compete.Sailing
Vincent H. Whitney came in 1946, and succeeded Bucklin as chairman in 1948.Sociology
Randall Stewart published a biography of Hawthorne in 1948, was general editor of an anthology, "The Literature of the South" in 1952, and co-editor of "Masterpieces of English Literature" and "Masterpieces of American Literature."Stewart, Randall
Individual stars included 1947 and 1948 NAAU hammer throw champion and 1948 Olympic team member Bob Bennett ’48, NAAU 40-yard champion Bill Dwyer ’48, national high jump champion Dick Phillips ’50 (who won the IC4A, NCAA, and NAAU championships in 1949), and Gil Borjeson ’52, who in consecutive weeks in his junior year won both the NAAU and the IC4A shot put titles, and was NCAA hammer throw champion in 1952.Track
Rohn Truell established the Metals Reseach Laboratory in 1948, and was chairman of the laboratory until his sudden death in Providence on January 10, 1968, following a stroke.Truell, Rohn
Karl S. Weimar was promoted to assistant professor in 1948, associate professor in 1954, professor in 1965, and was chairman of the German Department from 1967 to 1973.Weimar, Karl S.
John Rowe Workman was academic advisor and loyal supporter of the hockey team (his portrait hangs in Meehan Auditorium) and was revered by the students, so much so that the editors of "Bear Facts" chose to list him under "Brown Traditions:" He wrote "Arx Antiqua" in 1948, "A Term of College Latin" in 1954, and "New Horizons of Higher Education," describing the Identification and Criticism of Ideas curriculum at Brown, in 1959.Workman, John Rowe