Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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Juan Lopez-Morillas istant Professor of Spanish is now located at Prospect House, together with the History Department. with which it was once allied. In keeping with modern educational trends, the chief aim of Chairman Matthew C. Mitchell and his staff is to make the student an intelligent and a well-informed citizen. The year 1895 marked the creation of the Department of Biblical Literature, This depart- ment. the sole remnant of the early theological courses at Brown. has continued to flourish to the present day. Due to the new distribution re- quirement plan, there has been a large increase in the number of students taking its courses. An appreciation of the dificulties which this increase has caused can be gained by noting that Chairman Reverend Robert . Casey and his one-man staft are responsible for the instruc- tion of over three hundred students. With the arrival of a new century. the Educa- tion Department was founded. in 1901. This subject. a development of more recent years, was a comparative newcomer lo the University. Since the day of its inauguration. however, it has played an important part in the Brown cur- iculum. A recent innovation is the five-year 'n for teacher training conceived at Brown Chairman Claus E. Ekstrom and his staft. s plan calls for four vears of undergraduate n the various phases of education and one Francis Madeira Assistant Professor of Music Capt. Francis D. McCorkle Professor of Naval Science graduate vear of further study and practical ap- plication. In view of the growing demand for teachers. the importance of this plan cannot be overemphasized. Another science was added to the growing roster of subjects at Brown when the Geology Department was established in 1905. Since this date. the department. although small. has been very active. Chairman Alonzo W. Quinn and his staft have participated in many research projects. Vincent A. Tomas Assistant Professor of Philosophy

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Robert G. Noyes ssociate Professor of English Although the first Hazard Professorship of Physics was created in 1870, Physics was taught at Brown for almost forty years before it was introduced, in 1890. as a full-fledged depart- ment. Wilson Hall. built in the same year to house the new department, serves the same pur- pose today. Proof of the department's activity is the fact that members of its staff contributed invaluable research work in both the first and second World Wars. Recent work has included research in physical electronics and underwaten Donald M. Western Assistant Professor of Mathematics Alonzo W. Quinn Associate Purfl'nur ot Ur'ulugw PRI yop P UL 21 PR 1y Sinclair ' W. Armstrong 1s500 e Professor of Histor sound. At present, Chairman Robert B. Lindsay 1S iHh'IlNlWI in forwarding a system of instruc tion which emphasizes the small discussio aroup of the seminar rather than formal presen tation of material in the lecture room. Soon after the inception of the Econom the Mathematics and the Physics Departmen came the founding of the Political Science and Sociology Department. in 1892. The departme.

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Carl W. Miller Professor of Phvsics including work on strategic minerals. oil in Arabia, modification of the Panama Canal. and alaciers in Montana. The offices of the staft are in Rhode Island Hall. Biology is another subject which was taught at Brown before being established. in 1908. as a department. Actually. it had existed under the name of Comparative Anatomy as far back as 1890. The department has developed rapidly Gregory A. Kimble Instructor in Psychology since then. and now boasts one of the finest biological laboratories in the country. Besides the Arnold Biological lLaboratory. the depart- ment encompasses an annex laboratory and the oreenhouse. Department Chairman James W. Wilson and members of his staff have received many grants for research work. one of the mosl recent being a grant from the Cancer Division of the U. S. Public Health Service. Continued on Page 320 Guy H. Dodge issistant Professor of Political Science Richard E. DuWors Instructor in Sociology