I guess the acrostic is a thing of the past, and I can’t say that its demise was a surprise to me. Not many readers would have been doing the puzzle, I always thought, so it probably wasn’t worth the space and cost for you to print it.
Questioning the article on Mona Lisa Schulz’s work as a “medical intuitive” (“Brain Power,” The Classes, May/June).
In horse racing lingo, I finally broke my maiden with my first reunion—my sixty-fifth.
Ironically, Brown has adopted an open curriculum so that students can explore various interests and find their passion (“Exam Time,” Under the Elms, May/June), yet recommends (if not requires) that applicants follow the most demanding college preparatory track possible to improve their chances of admission: four years of English, four math, four science (3 labs), four foreign language, two history, and one academic elective.
The powerful past of the Haffenreffer Museum in Bristol, R.I.; a seat of government for a group of Native Americans in seventeenth-century New England that gave European colonists a run for their money in a literal sense.
A reporter should consider a source’s motivations in addition to confirming whether the information is reliable.
Not enough can be written about public education.
The omission of a dehumidification system in an indoor swimming pool is something Brown should have picked up on when the Smith Swim Center was first being built.
As teenagers and their parents were concluding a grueling fourteen-month therapeutic program, author David Marcus asked them to offer advice to other parents of teens. Some of their pointers:
For one of the girls in David Marcus’s book, the most basic challenge was to feed herself.
Why would students with first-rate musical talent choose Brown over a music conservatory and then opt not to concentrate in music? And why, while taking a full load of courses, would they continue to spend hours each day rehearsing and performing?
In an honor many think was long overdue, Fritz Pollard ’19 enters the NFL Hall of Fame this year. His induction is the perfect time to recognize that this African American pioneer’s most far-reaching successes had little to do with football.
How Pollard was voted into the NFL Hall of Fame.
After covering drug wars in Colombia and civil war in Angola, journalist David Marcus ’82 thought he was emotionally bulletproof. Writing a book about troubled teenagers in pastoral western Massachusetts shattered that illusion.
Frozen moments from indoor and outdoor winter seasons.
What this generation of new moms has in common: middle age.
A sophomore succumbs to the allure of fruit flies.
Twelve months of produce and recipes to promote local farmers
Tracking Peace Corps volunteers
The medical school has a new dean. Can he keep the hospitals happy, the school growing, and his sanity intact?
Way beyond fusion, Chris Elam ’98 is creating a new dance language. And he’s using Brown students as his verbs.