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1952

  • In 1952 the New York and Providence clubs changed their names from Brown Alumnae Club to Pembroke College Club.Alumnae Association
  • In 1952, after budget cuts throughout the University, the appropriation was decreased and would finance only eight issues a year.BAM Brown Alumni Monthly
  • His 1952 team tied Cornell for the Eastern Intercollegiate title.Baseball
  • Brown’s best finish in the league was a tie with Cornell for the title in 1952.Baseball
  • In 1952 Charles A. Baylis became professor of philosophy at Duke University, where he was also director of graduate studies until 1956.Baylis, Charles A.
  • Bruce M. Bigelow was largely responsible for the development of the "Identification and Criticism of Ideas" curriculum introduced in 1952.Bigelow, Bruce M.
  • Walter J. Kenworthy joined the department in 1951, Richard J. Goss in 1952, Richard Ellis in 1956, George W. Hagy in 1957, and Seymour Lederberg in 1958.Biology
  • Harcourt Brown became a member of the History of Science Society in 1934, and was its president in 1952.Brown, Harcourt
  • In September 1952 the statue was removed to a new home in front of the Sharpe Refectory, and there Caesar Augustus still stands, unfortunately having been relieved of his right arm, which had already been replaced after being broken off during the hurricane of 1938.Caesar Augustus
  • One bit of law that he did learn is apparent in a letter to Librarian David A. Jonah, written by Chafee in 1952 when he presented his college essays to the Archives of the University, which contained this comment: "I blush now to think of the use that I made of some sort of encyclopedia of criticism, which was possessed by the old polygonal library.Chafee, Zechariah Õ07
  • In 1952 at a Senate subcommittee meeting, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy named Chafee a person "dangerous" to the United States.Chafee, Zechariah Õ07
  • Arnold Buffum Chace 1866 (1907-1932) was a cotton manufacturer and Henry D. Sharpe 1894 (1932-1952) was president of Brown and Sharpe Manufacturing Company.Chancellors
  • Harold B. Tanner ’09 (1952-1964) was a lawyer, H. Stanford McLeod ’16 (1964-1968) an investment banker, and Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr. ’32 (1968-1979) among other things president of Trans World Airlines.Chancellors
  • The Office of the Chaplain was created in 1952, and in July of that year Edgar C. Reckard, a Presbyterian minister, was appointed chaplain and assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies.Chapel
  • Herman B. Chase was promoted to professor in 1952 and given the title of Robert P. Brown Professor of Biology in 1960.Chase, Herman B.
  • In 1952, Professor Coles left to become first president of Bowdoin College and then in 1968 president of the Research Corporation.Chemistry
  • In December 1952, after the subject of the drabness of the Brown academic hoods, black lined with brown, came to attention, President Wriston appointed Vice-President Bruce Bigelow a "Committee of one to pick official colors for Brown University and to put it over."College color
  • He came to Providence, and several generations of alumni had fond memories of him as the janitor at Faunce House from 1909 (when it was still Rockefeller Hall) until his retirement in 1952.College servants
  • In 1945 Theodore Collier became a professor of business at Rollins College in Florida, remaining in that position until 1952.Collier, Theodore
  • Robert W. Kenny was Dean of the College from 1947 to 1952.Dean
  • The five Deans of the College who became college presidents were: James Stacy Coles, acting dean of the College for one year when he became president of Bowdoin College in 1952; Brown president Barnaby Keeney, acting dean in 1952-53 and dean from 1953 to 1955; K. Roald Bergethon, acting dean in 1955-56 and dean from 1956 to 1958, who went to Lafayette College; Charles H. Watts II ’47, dean from 1958 to 1962, who became president of Bucknell; and Robert W. Morse, dean from 1962 to 1964, who became president of Case Western Reserve University.Dean
  • The office of Dean of Students was held by Bruce M. Bigelow from 1943 to 1946, Robert W. Kenny from 1946 to 1947, Edward R. Durgin to 1952 to 1962, and John M. Robinson from 1979 to 1988.Dean
  • Edmund S. Morgan was acting dean in 1951-1952, and Donald F. Hornig in 1952-1953.Dean
  • In 1952-53 the Union started to sponsor an intramural debating tournament.Debating
  • It was torn down in 1952 along with the nearby East House.East Building
  • In 1952 Brown entered into cooperation with a newly appointed Business Executives’ Research Committee from the community to study the economic problems of Rhode Island with grants from the nationwide Committee for Economic Development and the Ford Foundation’s Fund for Adult Education.Economics
  • In 1952 Ricardó Caminos, who had studied under Parker in Chicago, became the second member of the Egyptology faculty.Egyptology
  • William T. Hastings became an assistant in English after his graduation in 1903 and, except for two years of graduate study at Harvard, was a member of the department until 1952.English
  • William L. Fichter spent his sabbatic leaves in 1940-41 and 1947-48 studying Spanish and Indian civilizations in Mexico and Guatemala, and was visiting lecturer at Harvard in 1952-53.Fichter, William L.
  • In 1952-53 Ray E. Gilman was scientific warfare advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.Gilman, Ray E.
  • His two years of study at Harvard were the only time that William T. Hastings was away from Brown in the 53 years from his arrival as a student in 1899 until his retirement in 1952.Hastings, William T.
  • William T. Hastings served on the Senate of the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, and was national vice-president from 1952 to 1955, national president from 1955 to 1958, and national historian until his death.Hastings, William T.
  • James B. Hedges was appointed George L. Littlefield Professor of American History in 1931 and was chairman of the History Department twice, from 1938 to 1952 and from 1958 to 1960.Hedges, James B.
  • Whiston’s three-season record from 1952 to 1954 was 28-27-1.Hockey
  • After seven years of no hockey at Brown and an informal team in 1946-47, the coaches were Westcott E. S. Moulton from 1947 to 1952, Donald Whiston from 1952 to 1955, James Fullerton from 1955 to 1970, J. Allan Soares from 1970 to 1974, Richard Toomey from 1974 to 1978, Paul Schilling from 1978 to 1982, Herbert Hammond from 1982 to 1988, and Bob Gaudet, whose four-year record frow 1988 to 1992 was 15-19-6.Hockey
  • Donald F. Hornig was associate dean of the Graduate School in 1951-52 and acting dean in 1952-53.Hornig, Donald F.
  • Mary Elizabeth Sharpe directed the landscaping after the removal of East House and the East Building from the site in 1952.Howard Terrace
  • A new agreement adopted in July 1952 called for the creation of a Presidents’ Policy Committee.Ivy League
  • The effect of the agreement was felt when Brown was compelled in 1952 to report a violation of the agreement and to declare fourteen football players ineligible, when it became known that they had not reported receiving unofficial donations toward their tuition from a group of alumni.Ivy League
  • Barnaby C. Keeney returned to the deanship of the Graduate School and in 1952 added the position of Acting Dean of the College to his duties.Keeney, Barnaby C.
  • In 1950-51 Hugh B. Killough was an economist with the Economic Cooperation Administration in Taiwan, and in 1952 he conducted a study of economic and political conditions in Indonesia.Killough, Hugh B.
  • Reinhard Kuhn received his bachelor of arts degree in 1952, his master of arts in 1954, and his Ph.D. in 1957, all from Princeton.Kuhn, Reinhard
  • The Mathematics Department moved in 1952 to the old Delta Kappa Epsilon house, which was renamed Howell House.Mathematics
  • Edward R. Durgin from 1948 to 1952, when he retired and became dean of students at Brown, Capt.Military education
  • Frederick W. Laing from 1952 to 1955, 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.
  • Matthew C. Mitchell retired in 1952.Mitchell, Matthew C.
  • Thomas A. Mutch received an A.B. degree from Princeton in 1952, an M.S. from Rutgers in 1957, and a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1960.Mutch, Thomas A.
  • Otto Neugebauer's book, "The Exact Sciences in Antiquity," published in 1951, was awarded the Heineman Foundation Prize in 1952, the same year in which his "The Babylonian Method for the Computation of the Last Visibilities of Mercury" won the John F. Lewis Prize of the American Philosophical Society.Neugebauer, Otto
  • Donald F. Whiston ’51 was a goalie on the 1952 Olympic hockey team.Olympic Games
  • Westcott E. S. Moulton ’31, Brown hockey coach was asked to coach the 1952 Olympic hockey team, but declined, having just taken on the duties of associate dean of students.Olympic Games
  • The Photo Lab was located at 70 Waterman Street from 1952 until 1975, when it moved next door to the Cabinet.Photographic Laboratory
  • When the cafeteria was removed from the basement of Faunce House, the Post Office moved in and opened on February 18, 1952.Post Office
  • The approximately 1,400 boxes of 1952 had grown to more than 6,000 in 1989, when the boxes were temporarily removed to the East Side post office, while the Brown post office was enlarged and renovated.Post Office
  • He became chairman of the department in 1950, and was promoted to associate professor in 1952.Religious Studies
  • Together they gave to the University the Arthur Allen Room in the John Hay Library in 1952.Rockefeller, John D., Jr.
  • Echeverria coached again in 1952.Rowing
  • Bessie H. Rudd was promoted to associate professor of physical education in 1944 and named full professor in 1952.Rudd, Bessie H.
  • Henry D. 1894 Sharpe was chancellor for twenty years, from 1932 to 1952.Sharpe, Henry D. 1894
  • Charles H. Smiley also led several expeditions between 1947 and 1952 to determine the atmospheric refraction at low angular altitudes.Smiley, Charles H.
  • In the next few years the department was enlarged by the arrival of Kurt B. Mayer in 1950, Harold W. Pfautz in 1952, Sidney Goldstein in 1955, Basil G. Zimmer in 1959, and James M. Sakoda in 1962.Sociology
  • Graduate studies focusing on demography and ecology were initiated, and a Ph.D. program was authorized in 1952.Sociology
  • The graduate program in demography began in 1952, and the first Ph.D. degree specializing in demography was awarded in 1958.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
  • The building was razed in 1952 to make room for the installation of Howard Terrace.Student housing
  • 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
  • By $100 increments every few years, the cost of tuition reached $700 in 1952.Tuition
  • A large registration of Rhode Island teachers was attracted to a series of lecture-discussion courses sponsored jointly by Brown and the Rhode Island State Department of Education from 1950 to 1952.University Extension
  • After teaching at the University of Omaha from 1939 to 1942, Hyatt H. Waggoner was professor of English at the University of Kansas City from 1942 to 1956 and head of the English Department from 1952 to 1956.Waggoner, Hyatt H.
  • WBRU joined the Ivy Network in 1952, gaining the advantages of shared advertising and exchange of dramatic programs and sporting events.WBRU
  • "Wing Tips" was a newspaper published by the students and staff of the Department of Air Science and Tactics for the Brown Air Force ROTC unit, beginning in March 1952.Wing Tips
  • George Parker Winship (1871-1952), librarian of the John Carter Brown Library, was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, in 1871.Winship, George Parker
  • George Parker Winship died on June 22, 1952 in Dover, Massachusetts.Winship, George Parker
  • The Wriston Quadrangle was built between 1950 and 1952 on a site bordered by George, Thayer, Charles Field, and Brown Streets.Wriston Quadrangle
  • The quadrangle was dedicated on June 1, 1952 on a rainy day when Governor Dennis J. Roberts, architect Thomas Mott Shaw, contractors Thomas F. ’33 and William J. Gilbane ’33, and Arthur B. Homer ’17, chairman of the student housing board and donor of Wayland House, participated in the laying of the cornerstone.Wriston Quadrangle
  • Patriots Court in the quadrangle was dedicated on November 15, 1952 as part of the fall Homecoming activities.Wriston Quadrangle
  • Basil G. Zimmer was an instructor at Eastern Michigan University in 1950-51 and at the University of Michigan in 1951-52, assistant professor at Florida State University in 1952-53, and in 1953 became Resident Director of the University of Michigan Social Science Research Project.Zimmer, Basil G.