Excerpt from Brown Alumni Monthly, Vol. 49: November, 1948 College students are likely to look upon them selves as people without sovereignty or power of com mand, subject to rules and discipline and to curricula. Actually, they have capacity to determine what kind Of college theirs is to be, what its qualities, its reputa tion, its function, and its product. W'ithin their own competence is the determination of the quality of the education they will get. We have thought much lately about the under graduate days of a Brown student who lived a long life and a full one. His days were marked by achieve ment and fame, but crossed by failure and tragedy. He was as human a man as I ever knew, and yet as great. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.