Anna Canada Swain speech file Swain (Anna Canada) Speech File 1940-1952
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The authority and responsibilities of the Corporation, a bicameral body composed of a Board of Fellows with twelve members and a Board of Trustees with forty-two, are set forth in the Charter of the University granted by the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in 1764. "It is our fixed star; we can do nothing that contradicts its prohibitions or transgresses its grants of power," states Henry Wriston in The Structure of Brown University. The Charter origina...
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The Pembroke College Seventy-fifth Anniversary Committee was comprised of representatives from the administration, undergraduates, and alumnae. Mary Louise Record served as the chair. The alumnae sub-committee also acted as a committee of the Alumnae Association of Brown University. The 75th Anniversary Committee first met in the fall of 1965. The celebration began in the fall of 1966 with an arts festival that included an Exhibition of the Herbert and Nannette Rothschild Collection at the Annma...
Swain, Anna Canada
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Anna Canada Swain (1889-1979) was graduated from Pembroke College, Class of 1911, and served as the first woman member of the Brown Corporation, having been chosen as a term trustee in 1949. She was president of the American Baptist Convention in 1946 and author of numerous plays on Baptist Missionary themes. From the guide to the Anna Canada Swain speech file, Swain (Anna Canada) Speech File, 1940-1952, (John Hay Library Special Collections) ...
