BRUNONIA
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
Brown students call it “the Ratty,” but on maps it’s this two-word dining hall.
Sharpe Refractory
Rhode Island is home to the this sport's hall of fame
Tennis
This person is a legendary fictional professor of psychoceramics (the study of cracked pots) who was created as a joke in 1929. Every Friday the 13th, students celebrate Carberry Day in honor of his fictional academic accomplishments.
Josiah S. Carberry
The Ratty is Brown’s largest all-you-care-to-eat dining hall and is located on this quad, which also houses many fraternities and program houses.
Wriston Quadrangle
Rhode Island shares a state water border with this state
New York
Brown was the first Ivy League school to accept all students regardless of this characteristic, a statement to the spirit of openness that still embodies Brown today.
Religion
Often called the “social heart of campus,” the Ratty serves over this many students per meal.
1500
This sport was played for the first time in the United States in 1876 near Newport.
Polo
Of all Ivy League schools, Brown was first to offer this as a part of its undergraduate program
Engineering
When the Sharpe Refectory opened in the 1950s, students jokingly called it the “Rat-factory”; the smaller space downstairs that once fed day students and staff was known by this leafy name.
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
Every year on Halloween, students from Brown gather around this—the largest remaining one in the United States!
Hutchings-Votey organ.
The Sharpe Refectory honors this philanthropist and candy entrepreneur (along with her husband, a Brown chancellor), who later helped landscape Brown’s campus and championed Providence’s India Point Park.
This era started in Rhode Island with the development and construction in 1790 of Samuel Slater's water-powered cotton mill in Pawtucket.
Industrial Revolution