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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Brown University Providence, R.I.; coeducational chartered 1764 as Rhode Island College at Warren, opened 1765. It moved to Providence in 1770 and was renamed for Nicholas Brown in 1804. Pembroke College, established in 1891 as an affiliated college for women, merged with Brown in 1971. The John Carter Brown Library (see Brown, John Carter ) is especially significant for its early Americana. Author not available, BROWN UNIVERSITY. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

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...undergraduate and graduate degrees in all major academic fields; its school of medicine awards the M.D. Research facilities include centres for geological, astronomical, and educational research. Brown University Brown University Brown University Read more

A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
...of his brother, Brown began premedical studies at the University of Birmingham. Though...natural sciences, Brown was convinced by...decades, Radcliffe-Brown held major teaching posts at the University of Capetown in South...States, and Oxford University, where he was ... Read more

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	Missed opportunities: lessons from the Title IX case at Brown.(suit by women athletes against Brown University)
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