Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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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

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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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PHI BETA KAPPA The Phi Beta Kappa Society was founded on December 5, 1776, at the College of William and Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia. In a sense, it was the first of the so-called Greek Letter societies: and in its initial period at William and Mary, it incorporated many ol the characteristics of such organizationsan oath of secrecy, a badge, mottoes in Greek and in Latin, a code of laws, an elaborate initiation ritual, a seal. and a special handclasp. The original Society at William and Mary existed actively for only four years, until the approach of Cornwallis army forced the college to close its doors. Before it suspended activities, however, the Society granted charters for branches at Harvard and Yale. I'ifty years after the Society's entry into New England. only four addi- tional chapters had been founded: Alpha of New Hampshire at Dartmouth, 1787: Alpha of New York at Union, 1817; Alpha of Maine at Bowdoin, 1825; and Alpha of Rhode Island at Brown, 1830. In 1883, the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa was organized. Since then the number of chapters has increased from 25 to 141, the membership from 14.000 to 124.000. The living membership is now approximately 100,000. A list of members of the Class of 1948 elected to Phi Beta Kappa appears on Page 332. SIGMA XI Translated, the symbols of Sigma Xi mean Associates in Zealous Re- search. This motto, when expan..d, expresses the purpose of the organiza- tion: to interchange. with men of a caliber that would benefit by that interchange, scientific ideas at a professional level. With this objective in mind, and inspired by Phi Beta Kappa, which 61 interested itsell primarily in the Humanities, Sigma Xi was founded by $ ; Cornell University in 1886. Fourteen years later the Brown Chapter was o inaugurated. To date, more than two hundred universities have been honored by the introduction of Sigma Xi chapters. . - . e . . . 5 7 Membership in Sigma Xi is controlled by a board of electors, which A selects the greater portion of new members from among graduate scientists. - ';1 Outstanding men, however, are admitted as associate members in the last i semester of their senior year or, occasionally, in their junior year. Election to Sigma Xi is manifestly a signal honor; and each man, as a scientist, must be conspicuous in his field. Since membership is predominantly graduate, administration of Sigma Xi is in the hands of facully members. The oflicers of the organization for the past year have been Dr. Hunter of the Psychology Department, President; and Mr. William Benford, Vice-President. A0 L member of the 10 of 1018 Do 10 B o N annea . on Page 333. 22