Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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SERIOUS CONCERN with academics has led to a faculty-encouraged loosening-up of attendance requlations. Compulsory attendance now comes from within the student, himself, rather than from without. As an example of the Brown man's fresh interest in classroom activity, Professor Vincent Thomas' philosophy lecture Philosophy in Mod- ern Literature draws an average of a third more students than are signed for the course, caused its move from the ordinarily sufficiently spacious Rhode Island Hall room to Carmichael Auditorium far right, second largest lecture hall on campus. Other courses overflow with vagabonds and audits, too, but the rising intellectual barometer reads most impressively at casual buUsessions and dormitory-sponsored discussion groups in every corner of the campus. The classroom, as it should be, is only the beginning.

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A NEW INTENSITY has swept through Brown in recent years. It is seen in the faces of the students and faculty mem- bers, alike, and lieard in conversations all over campus. Jerry Haskins right, pins down a visiting lecturer. Blue Room conversations take on new depth and seriousness. Freshmen Jones and Hinman below talk o'er a few new ideas in an afterclass coke-and-coffee session. The fresh concern with learning is apparent in increased student-faculty involve- ment; Associate Professor John Hawkes, important young novelist Cannibal, The Beetle's Leg, and others and a creative writing specialist at Brown, talks with a student lower right who has discovered the excitement and pleasure of working closely with his teachers.