Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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FACULTY

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ASSISTANT DEAN OF STUDENTS, Dr. Emest Fre- richs '48, is assistant professor in the religious studies de- partment, and an expert and popular lecturer on Hebrew and 0ld Testament studies. DEAN OF THE COLLEGE, author, lecturer in the early American novel, and friend. Dr. Charles H. Watts '47 replaces Dean Bergethon, now president of Lafayette Col- lege. A dedicated educator. Watts brings the same youthful vigor to his post in U.H. he does to his job of teaching.

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SPECIALIZING in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century English and American Literature, Dr. Isracl J. Kapstein '26 left. Professor of English, is interested primarily in the novel form - although he has done a great deal of work in the Romantic era and teaches a graduate seminar on Byron. In addition, Dr. Kapstein teaches a course wherein the assignment is to Avrite an extended work of prose - usually a novel. An autlior, himself Something of a Hero, a novel written tovard the end of his close companionship vith Brown schoolmates Quentin Reynolds, Nathaniel West, and S. J. Perelman, a sense of excitement and deep concern permeates his lectures as well as his casual conversation. Dr. Charles H. Philbrick IT '46 below left, like Dr. Kapstein, earned all three of his academic degrees at Brown. Dr. Philbrick is an Assistant Professor of English and particularly interested in the Victorian period, although he is best known for his work with poetry. A poet, as well as a teacher of poetry. Dr. Philbrick has been published in The Atlantic and The Saturday Revieiu, among others. He won the Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize for 18958. Dr. Philip J. Bray '48, Professor of Physics below, holds two contracts from the Atomic Energy Commission, under which he does research in solid state physics, specializing in nuclear- magnetic and electron-spin resonance. He turned to his alma mater in 1955 and was made full professor last year. Dr. Charles A. Stuart '19, Professor of Biology right, combines a gieat deal of teaching ability with an active research program in his specialties, bacteriol- ogy and immunology. Dr. Stuart did both his undergraduate and graduate work at Brown, receiving liis doctorate in 192.5.