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Title: Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Brown, Robert Perkins, ed Palmer, Henry Robinson, b. 1867, joint ed Koopman, Harry Lyman, 1860-1937, joint ed Brigham, Clarence S. (Clarence Saunders), 1877-1963, joint ed
Subjects: Brown University
Publisher: Providence, R.I., Brown Alumni Magazine Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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and ofdiscussion was permitted in the classroom, unless it wasobvious that the liberty was abused. The two debating societies, the Philermenian and theUnited Brothers, played a large part in the intellectuallife of the college in my time. Electioneering for securingmembers was carried on with such vigor during theearlier weeks of the year that the freshmen had scarcelytime left for their regular duties. I have heard many anold graduate say that he regarded the benefit derived fromthe society to which he belonged as equal in value to thehelp secured in the classroom. Very careful preparationwas made by the ablest debaters and the honors they won 90 Memories of Brown were highly cherished. Mr. Samuel S. Cox, who was asenior in 1845-46, was the most brilliant debater of his timein college. I doubt whether in his long congressionalcareer he made abler speeches than some to which welistened from him in the United Brothers Hall. Thesociety halls occupied the fourth story of the north end of
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Professor James B. Angell, IE(Taken about 1860) Hope College. It is a most promising sign that interestin debating has revived in the colleges. We played football and baseball in the old-fashionedway in the rear of Hope College, but merely among our-selves. In football, the seniors and sophomores werepitted against the juniors and freshmen, and all who chosetook part. Students rarely went into society in the city before Memories of Brown 91 their senior year, and not many even then. We foundour social deUghts in our college intimacies. The num-ber of students was so small, about 140, that one couldeasily know them all. Most of us took our meals inCommons Hall, the room now used as a classroom on thefirst floor in the middle of the east side of University Hall.Each class had its own table. If the fare was not verysumptuous, it was not costly, and the conversation waslively. Occasionally it became so boisterous as to stir theamiable steward, Mr. Elliott, known familiarly to us as Pluto,

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