Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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RICHARD C. TAYLOR right joined the Brown faculty as an instructor in 1949 and attained professorship in 1958, He is the William Herbert Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy. Periodicals in the United States, England and Australla have published his articles. and he has finished work on a book entitied Causation, Free Will and Time. Professor Taylor is one of the innovaters of the IC curriculum, and as a teacher, his efforts have re. sulted in several published papers by graduate students., SERVING in his first year as English Department Chairman, Edward A Bloom, Nicholas Brown Pro- fessor of Oratory and Belles Lettres, has been a regular contributor of book reviews to the Saturday Review and Providence Sunday Journal. His untir- ing efforts not only include an early marning literary criticism course but also collaboration in several eagerly awaited publications. Among the years efforts is a5 revised text on poetic analysis written by Chairman Bloom and his colleagues Elmer M. Blistein and Charles L. Philbrick,

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CONDUCTING EXTENSIVE RESEARCH in the control of directions and rates of chemical reactions, Dr. William W. Russell, MNewport Professor of Chemistry, has served Brown for almost four decades. He has served on the Committee on Academic Standing and the Committee on Honors Council. In addition, Professor Russell is a member of the American Chemical Society, Sigma Xi and the Amer ican Association for the Advancement of Science. He has published numerous arficles in his field analytical chemistry. Chairman of the chemistry department, Dr. Robert H. Cole, Metcalf Professor of Chemistry since 1960, directs many research projects supported by grants from scientific foundations, government agencies and indus trial concerns. He is a member of several scientific societies and serves on the executive committee of the division of chemical physics of the American Physical Society. In addition, he is chairman of the university's Physical Sciences Council. Recently, Dr. Cole studied and presenfed o peper in Europe on the electrical properties of liquids and solids. cf

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HAVING RETURNED from the University of Graz where he was studying on a Fulbright grant, Pro- fessor Chisholm completes a decade of service as chairman of the philosophy department this year, Dr. Chisholm, Brown '38, received both his master's and doctorate degrees at Harvard where he was a James Walker Fellow. Among his publications while at Brown is his widely acclaimed book, Perceiving: A Philosophical Study, which has been published both in the United States and England, A member of the library staff since 1934 David A, Jonah, John Hay Professor of Bibliography, directs the operation and activities of Brown's library system with more than ,200,000 volumes manuscripts and maps, and a staff of 170 persons. He supervises the acquisition of 34,000 new books annually while also directing a foreign exchange program and engaging in active research. In 1929 Professor Jonah received 5cB. and LL.D. from Mount Allison University in Canada. He has served as president of the Rhode Island Library Association and is chairman of the committee on scholarly publications for the Brown University Press. Currently, Professor Jonah is working on plans for the new University Library building.