Bernice V. Brown Cronkhite

Bernice Veazey Brown was born on July 23, 1893, in Calais, Maine. She grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, attending the Peace Street School and Classical High School. After teaching for one year, she entered Radcliffe in 1912 and received her B.A. in 1916, her M.A. in 1918, and her Ph.D. in 1920, specializing in government and international law. In 1915 and again in 1916 she won the Baldwin Prize for essays on subjects pertaining to municipal government. From 1918 to 1920 she held a Carnegie Endowment International Law Fellowship, the first year at Yale and the second at Harvard. For the academic year 1920-1921, Miss Brown was awarded a fellowship by the Commission for Relief in Belgium for advanced study in Brussels. She also visited several other European countries, as well as the League of Nations, and used what she learned in reports and speeches, some included in this collection.

Upon her return to the U.S., she was active in the School of Citizenship and Politics at Radcliffe. She became director of the Training School for Public Service, which was organized by the Women's Municipal League in October 1921 to train women for civil service posts newly open to them. Miss Brown was appointed Dean of Radcliffe College in 1923, when Ada Comstock became President. In 1934 she became Dean of the Radcliffe Graduate School, a post she held until 1959. She was also Vice-President of Radcliffe from 1923 to 1960.

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