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200

Brown was one the first Ivy League schools to accept all students regardless of this characteristic

Religion

200

This U.S. president’s son and magazine founder graduated from Brown University in 1983.

 John F. Kennedy Jr.

200

Rhode Island is home to the this sport's hall of fame

Tennis


400

Brown was the first college in the country to offer this as a part of its undergraduate program

Applied Math

400

This actress, known for the Harry Potter films, earned her degree from Brown University in 2014.

Emma Watson

400

Rhode Island shares a border with these two states

Massachusetts and Connecticut

600

This all-female institution merged with Brown University in 197

Pembroke College

600

Known as the “Father of American Public Education,” this Massachusetts reformer graduated from Brown University in 1819.

Horace Mann


600

This equestrious sport was played for the first time in the United States in 1876 near Newport.  

Polo

800

Every year on Halloween, students from Brown gather around this—the largest remaining one in the United States!

Pipe organ.

800

The son of immigrants from Taiwan, this entrepreneur and 2020 presidential candidate earned his undergraduate degree at Brown University.

Andrew Yang

800

St. Mary's, Rhode Island's oldest Roman Catholic parish was founded in 1828. The church is best known as the site of the wedding of this future United States president in 1953.  

JFK

1000

These open only twice a year - inward for Convocation, when first year students are welcomed by the Brown community, and outward for Commencement, where graduating seniors pass through

Van Wickle Gates

1000

This media mogul, founder of CNN, and outspoken philanthropist is a Brown University alumnus from the Class of 1960.

Ted Turner

1000

This "invent"-ful era started in Rhode Island with the development and construction in 1790 of Samuel Slater's water-powered cotton mill in Pawtucket.  

Industrial Revolution

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