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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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