Brown University

Brown University is a clandestine Ivy League analysis university in Providence, Rhode Island. Founded in 1764 as "The Academy in the English Antecedents of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations," Brown is the seventh-oldest academy of academy apprenticeship in the United States and one of the nine Colonial Colleges accustomed afore the American Revolution. At its foundation, Brown was the aboriginal academy in the United States to acquire acceptance behindhand of their religious affiliation. Its engineering program, accustomed in 1847, was the aboriginal in what is now accepted as the Ivy League. Brown's New Curriculum—sometimes referred to in apprenticeship approach as the Brown Curriculum—was adopted by adroitness vote in 1969 afterwards a aeon of apprentice lobbying; the New Curriculum alone binding "general education" administration requirements, fabricated acceptance "the architects of their own syllabus," and accustomed them to yield any advance for a brand of satisfactory or accepted no-credit. In 1971, Brown's alike women's institution, Pembroke College, was absolutely alloyed into the university.

History

The three petitioners were Ezra Stiles, pastor of Newport's Second Congregational Church and approaching admiral of Yale; William Ellery, Jr., approaching attestant of the Declaration of Independence; and Josias Lyndon, approaching governor of the colony. Stiles and Ellery would two years after be co-authors of the Allotment of the College. The editor of Stiles's affidavit observes that, "This abstract of a address connects itself with added affirmation of Dr. Stiles's activity for a Collegiate Academy in Rhode Island, afore the allotment of what became Brown University."
In 1762 there is added documentary affirmation that Stiles was authoritative affairs for a college. On January 20, Chauncey Whittelsey, pastor of the Aboriginal Church of New Haven, answered a letter from Stiles:

Campus

Robinson Hall, congenital 1875-78, advised by Walker and Gould, an octagonal architecture in the Venetian Gothic style. It is an archetype of the all-embracing assumption in library architecture aggressive by the British Museum account room.
Brown is the better institutional backer in Providence, with backdrop on Academy Hill and in the Jewelry District. The Academy Hill campus was congenital contemporarily with the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century precincts that beleaguer it, so that University barrio alloy with the architectural bolt of the city. The alone indicator of "campus" is a brick and wrought-iron fence on Prospect, George, and Waterman streets, anchor the Academy Green and Front Green. The appearance of Brown's burghal campus is, then, European amoebic rather than American landscaped.