Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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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.

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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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FORMER CHAIRMAN of the history department and Munro, Goodwin, Wilkinson Protessor of His- tory, Dr. Willlam F. Chirch s known fo many for his courses on the Renaissance and Reformation. He has been awarded several fellowships for study in European history and has published two major books in his fieldpolitical thought and institu- tions in France during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He is currently preparing a monograph on Cardinal Richelieu and Reason of State. A mem- ber of the American Historical Association, Phi Beta Kappa, the editorial board of French Histo- rical Studies, and the advisory council of the Ren- aissance Society of America, Professor Church has attended numerous conferences and s presently on sabatical doing further research. Dr. Chelcie C. Bosland, Eastman Professor of Political Economy, came fo Brown in 1929 and served as chairman of the department of economics from 1937 to 1949. He has long been active in state and com- munity projects involving matters of finance and education and has written several books and many articles on economics. Professor Bosland is a mem- ber of the American Finance Association, Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Gamma Sigma.