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1973

  • In 1973 the eight Ivy League colleges and M.I.T. agreed on common admission procedures including an early evaluation of applicants and non-binding notification of their likelihood of acceptance.Admission
  • The next year there were 128 black students in the entering class of 1973.African Americans
  • The first of these was based on a 1973 independent study, "Oral History as An Index to Change," in which Jones’s students interviewed elderly blacks on the subject of race relations in Providence from 1920 to 1940.Afro-American Studies
  • On June 3, 1973 the Brown Alumnae Association merged with the Associated Alumni.Alumnae Association
  • The American Philosophical Society has numbered among its members the following individuals connected with Brown, elected to membership in the years indicated: Stephen Hopkins in 1769; Benjamin Waterhouse in 1791; Francis Wayland in 1838; John E. Holbrook 1815 in 1839; Alpheus S. Packard in 1878; George Dana Boardman 1852 in 1880; Henry S. Frieze 1841 in 1884; William Williams Keen 1859 in 1884; James Macalister 1856 in 1886; James Burrill Angell 1849 in 1889; Lester Frank Ward in 1889; Richard Olney 1856 in 1897; Stephen F. Peckham 1862 in 1897; John Hay 1858 in 1898; Robert H. Thurston 1859 in 1902; Carl Barus in 1903; Hermon Carey Bumpus 1884 in 1909; Charles E. Bennett 1878 in 1913; Winthrop John Vanleuven Osterhout 1893 in 1917; John Franklin Jameson in 1920; Charles Evans Hughes 1881 in 1926; Arthur F. Buddington ’12 in 1931; John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 1897 in 1931; Ernest E. Tyzzer 1897 in 1931; Gilbert Chinard in 1932; George E. Coghill 1896 in 1935; Harvey N. Davis ’01 in 1935; George Grafton Wilson 1886 in 1936; Frederick G. Keyes ’09 Ph.D. in 1938; Charles August Kraus in 1939; Walter S. Hunter in 1941; Leonard Carmichael in 1942; Zechariah Chafee ’07 in 1946; Robert Cushman Murphy ’11 in 1946; Otto E. Neugebauer in 1947; William A. Noyes in 1947; George Boas ’13 in 1950; Carl Bridenbaugh in 1950; Clarence Saunders Brigham 1899 in 1955; Clarence H. Graham in 1956; John Imbrie in 1956; Lars Onsager in 1959; John Wilder Tukey ’36 in 1962; Edmund Sears Morgan in 1964; Carl Pfaffmann ’33 in 1964; Vartan Gregorian in 1965; Barnaby C. Keeney in 1965; Donald F. Hornig in 1967; Floyd Ratliff ’50 Ph.D. in 1972; Leon N. Cooper in 1973; David E. Pingree in 1975; George F. Carrier in 1976; Eliot Stellar ’47 Ph.D. in 1977; Brooke Hindle ’40 in 1982; Thomas J. Watson, Jr. ’37 in 1984; Barbara K. Lewalski in 1986.American Philosophical Society
  • In the 1970s the department was enlarged by the arrival of William O. Beeman in 1973, Marida C. Hollos in 1974, and Lina M. Fruzzetti in 1975.Anthropology
  • A further reorganization of the Associated Alumni in 1973 provided for an executive committee made up of the four elected officers, five appointed local directors, and 62 appointed regional directors.Associated Alumni
  • In 1973 the Alumnae Association merged with the Associated Alumni, and in 1979 Phyllis Van Horn Tillinghast ’51 became the first woman president of the Associated Alumni.Associated Alumni
  • Women’s intercollegiate athletics, which had been funded as a student activity, began to share in the funds for all University athletic programs in 1973-74, following the Title IX legislation of the Educational Amendments to the Higher Education Act of 1972, and fifteen varsity level women’s teams were established.Athletics
  • Arlene Gorton ’52, who succeeded Miss Rudd at Pembroke, was named director of physical education and assistant director of athletics at Brown in 1973.Athletics
  • In college he was All-Ivy and All-EIBL in 1973 and 1974, and after playing for the Padres, he returned to Brown as coach in 1992, replacing Frank Castelli, who had coached in 1991 and 1992.Baseball
  • Under coach James G. "Gerry" Alaimo ’58 the team improved slowly, and in 1972-73 had its first winning season since 1959-60, as five sophomores, Phil Brown ’75, Jim Busam ’75, Vaughan Clarke ’75, Lloyd Desvigne ’75, and Eddie Morris ’75, finished 14-12 and third in the Ivy League, and went on to 17-9 and a tie for second in the league in 1973-74, and 14-12 and a tie for third in 1974-75.Basketball
  • In the first year of intercollegiate competition since the 1960s the women’s team, led by Sara Diedrick ’76, compiled a 13-1 record in 1973-74, and on February 16, 1974, with Providence College, was one of the first woman’s athletic teams to compete in the Providence Civic Center.Basketball
  • The women’s teams have been coached by Mary Avery in 1958, Sarah Phillips in 1960, Jan Lutz in 1972-73, Gail Davis from 1973 to 1975; Carole Kleinfelder from 1975-76, Gail Klock from 1976 to 1980; Maureen Enos from 1980 to 1988; and Jean Marie Burr since 1988.Basketball
  • George H. Bass was named associate professor of English and theatre arts in 1973, associate professor of theatre arts and Afro-American studies in 1976, and was promoted to full professor in 1985.Bass, George H.
  • In 1973 the Brown Daily Herald Voluntary Publishing Association, which took in outside printing jobs as well as publishing the "Herald," was facing financial difficulties after purchasing typesetting equipment.BDH Brown Daily Herald
  • Its first appearance was in the "Brown Daily Herald" of February 15, 1973.BDH Brown Daily Herald
  • In 1973 she was named Dean of the Division of Biological and Medical Sciences and Frank L. Day Professor of Biology.Biology
  • In 1973 Dr. Stanley Aronson, M.D. was named Dean of Medical Affairs, responsible for the development of the the six-year program leading to the Master of Medical Science degree.Biology
  • A grant by the the Ittleson Family Foundation to the Division of Biological Medical Sciences in 1973 formalized the committee consisting of John Ladd and Dan W. Brock, professors of philosophy, Sidney Cobb, an epidemiologist and professor of community medicine and psychiatry, David Kass, psychiatrist, Robert P. Davis, professor of medical science, and Sumner B. Twiss, professor of religious studies.Biomedical ethics
  • Marston Boat House was acquired in 1967, and the old boat house was condemned as unsafe in 1973.Boat House
  • A new Brown Student Union, formed in 1973 to coordinate extracurricular functions and provide student services, had among its responsibilities the Film Society, Lecture Board, Concert Agency, Cultural Activities Board, and Big Mother Coffee House.Brown Union
  • The Bryant dormitories on Young Orchard Avenue, Carroll Hall, Allen Hall, Salisbury Hall, and Stowell Hall were removed to make way for the new apartment-type dormitories in 1973.Bryant College
  • Leonard Carmichael (1898-1973), professor of psychology, was born in Philadelphia on November 9, 1898.Carmichael, Leonard
  • Leonard Carmichael died on September 16, 1973, in Washington.Carmichael, Leonard
  • In 1973 Professor Clapp and in 1974 Professor John O. Edwards received the Manufacturing Chemists Award for excellence in teaching chemistry, and in 1974 Professor Cole received the Irving Langmuir Prize, this country’s highest award in chemical physics, for his work in dielectrics.Chemistry
  • Church, who specialized in French political thought and was known as "one of the handful of Richelieu scholars in the world," published "Constitutional Thought in Sixteenth Century France" in 1941, "The Greatness of Louis XIV: Myth or Reality?" in 1959, and "Richelieu and Reason of State" in 1973.Church, William F.
  • Clapp was awarded the Manufacturing Chemists Association College Chemistry Teacher Award in 1973 and the American Chemical Society Award in Chemical Education in 1976.Clapp, Leallyn B.
  • The Center for Neural Studies began in 1973 to study animal central nervous systems and the human brain.Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
  • The pool was still inadequate and, after much waiting, a new pool was built in 1973.Colgate Hoyt Pool
  • At the 1973 Commencement for the first time both of the student orators were women, Mary E. Moore and Suzanne Nolan.Commencement
  • The house was renovated for use by the admission office in 1973.Corliss-Brackett House
  • Four structures together with the playing fields make up the athletic complex: Meehan Auditorium, the ice rink built in 1961, Smith Swimming Center, built in 1973, Olney-Margolies Athletic Center, built in 1981, and Pizzitola Sports Center, completed in 1989.Erickson Athletic Complex
  • Since 1973 tenure has not been granted to hospital-based faculty of the Medical School, for whom senior appointments are for five years and are renewable and appointments as assistant professor are limited to nine years.Faculty
  • In 1973 the new club participated in its first meet, winning a scrimmage against Southeastern Massachusetts University.Fencing
  • In 1973-74 Brown entered the New England Intercollegiate Fencing League, finished with a 5-4 record and placed fifth in the regionals.Fencing
  • Fencing became a coed sport in 1973-74, and the next year the team had twelve men and ten women.Fencing
  • Interest in field hockey had waned, but picked up in the fall of 1973, when 38 women came out for practice and no games had been scheduled.Field Hockey
  • After four years without a victory, the 1973 team, coached by Marge Anderson, wife of football coach John Anderson, finished 7-4-2 after a slow start and won three games in the New England All-College Tourney.Field Hockey
  • Leonard Jardine began coaching in 1967 and compiled a record of 9-44-1 before John Anderson took over as coach in 1973.Football
  • The Anderson years were better, as his teams finished 4-3-1 in 1973, 5-4 in 1974 and 6-2-1 in 1975.Football
  • "Rip" Engle (28-20-4) from 1943 to 1949, when he left for Penn State and took Joe Paterno with him; Gregory "Gus" Zitrides (1-8-0) in 1950; Alva E. Kelley (31-39-2) from 1951 to 1958; John J. McLaughry (17-51-3) from 1959 to 1966; Len Jardine (9-44-1) from 1967 to 1973; John Anderson (60-39-3) from 1973 to 1983; and John Rosenberg (23-33-3) from 1984 to 1989.Football
  • The decision in 1973 to admit women to the Brown chapter of Alpha Delta Phi did not have the blessing of the national organization.Fraternities
  • The chapter reaffiliated with Sigma Chi in 1973.Fraternities
  • Brown has been involved in an informal exchange with the Soviet Union since Professor James Head went to Moscow in 1973 to a space science meeting.Geology
  • The pamphlet series continued until 1973.Hellcoal Press
  • In addition "Hellcoal Annual" appeared in 1971, "Hellcoal First Edition Series" in 1972, "Hellcoal Playbook Series" in 1973, and "Hellcoal Review," a continuation of the "Hellcoal Annual" in 1978.Hellcoal Press
  • Hunter Dupree (history of science and technology), Abbott Gleason (Russian history), Barry D. Karl (recent United States history), R. Burr Litchfield (French and Italian economic and social history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), Norman Rich (German political and diplomatic history since 1850), and David Underdown (English politics in the seventeenth century); in 1970, Howard P. Chudacoff (nineteenth and twentieth century United States urban history), Charles E. Neu (foreign relations of the United States in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries), Robert C. Padden (the expansion of Europe and Comparative American colonial societies) and Gordon S. Wood (American colonial history); and in 1973, Lewis Perry Curtis (modern British history) and James T. Patterson (American history).History
  • Steve Shea coached the women’s team from 1973 to 1989 with a record of 120-130-10.Hockey
  • About 1973 a Jewish women’s prayer group was formed at Brown and conducted a women’s service at Hillel every Saturday.Jews
  • His teams reached the NCAA quarterfinals three times, in 1971, 1973, and 1976.Lacrosse
  • The 1973 team, spurred on by Stevenson’s promise to buy watches for the players if they won the Ivy League championship, finished 6-0 in the league, 10-2 overall, and won the New England championship, but was defeated by Maryland, 7-16, in the NCAA quarterfinals.Lacrosse
  • Dom Starsia ’74, who never saw a lacrosse game before he came to Brown, was All-American in 1973 and 1974, and in his senior year captain of his team in both the North-South All-Star and the New England All-Star games.Lacrosse
  • From 1893 to 1973 Ladd Observatory provided time signals, first to the Rhode Island Electric Protective Company, which distributed them throughout the state, then in 1906 to the local fire stations.Ladd Observatory
  • He also published "The Nature of Physics" in 1968, "Lord Rayleigh, The Man and His Work" in 1970, and "Julius Robert Mayer, Prophet of Energy" in 1973.Lindsay, Robert Bruce
  • In 1973 the Kresge Foundation offered a two-for-one challenge grant of $900,000 to match $1,800,000 to be raised by the University.Lyman Hall
  • In 1973 the National Science Foundation took over funding of the laboratory and directed the definition of specific targets of its research.Materials Research Laboratory
  • Stanley M. Aronson was appointed Dean of Medical Affairs in 1973, and was Dean of Medicine from 1976 to 1981.Medical education
  • In the summer of 1973 there was another trip to Czechoslovakia (where the Chorus, with Robert Molison as director, gave the first officially recognized American concert in Prague since the Russian invasion of 1968), Hungary, and Austria.Musical Clubs
  • In 1973 1,400 undergraduates of the University’s 4,700 were taking courses in music.Music
  • After his retirement in 1973, Prager lived in Savognin, Switzerland.Prager, William
  • The Resumed Undergraduate Education Program began in 1973, having been approved by the faculty in the fall of 1972 as an experimental six-year program to enroll students who had been away from formal study for at least five years and were at least 25 years old.Resumed Undergraduate Education Program
  • In 1973 the varsity eight finished second in the IRA national championships on Onondaga Lake.Rowing
  • Brown won Ivy titles in 1964 with skippers Chuck Paine ’66 and Earl Harrington ’66, and again in 1973 with skippers Ed Holt ’74 and Willie DeCamp ’73.Sailing
  • The Smith Swimming Center was opened in 1973, replacing the 70 year old Colgate Hoyt pool.Smith Swimming Center
  • In 1973, after winning the Ivy title, the team advanced to the semi-finals of the NCAA tournament by defeating UConn, 1-0, Yale, 2-1, and Hartwick, 1-0, all in sudden-death games, only to lose to St. Louis, 1-3, in the semifinals.Soccer
  • During Stevenson’s thirty-one years of coaching at Brown his record was 251-160-30, and his teams had 24 winning seasons, captured ten Ivy League and seven New England titles, and advanced to the NCAA playoffs thirteen times (eleven of them from 1968 to 1978), and to the semifinals four times, in 1968, 1973, 1975, and 1977.Soccer
  • In 1973 the object desired for a football game was Harvard’s Big-H drum.Student customs
  • I would have to say ‘yes.’" Three apartment-style buildings for 168 students were built on Young Orchard Avenue in 1973.Student housing
  • David Sias has been the diving coach since 1973.Swimming
  • In 1973 Theatre Arts was recognized as a program.Theatre Arts
  • In 1973 Tougaloo began a Health Services Summer Program for high school students.Tougaloo College
  • In 1973 the Heptagonals were held at Brown for the first time in twenty years.Track
  • Ten students graduated with an independent concentration in urban studies in 1972, and twenty in 1973.Urban Studies
  • A standard concentration in urban studies was approved in 1973, and a revised concentration program in 1975.Urban Studies
  • 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.
  • In 1973 wrestling was in danger of being dropped.Wrestling