Brown Alumni Monthly, Vol. 60: December, 1959 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Brown Alumni Monthly, Vol. 60: December, 1959

WE didn’t see the incident, but it doesn’t take a lively imagination to create a mental picture of it. On the Wednesday afternoon before the Convocation opened, the academic apparel was waiting for many of the participants when the cross country squad returned from its practice. Spying the gowns, mortarboards, and Trustees’ hats in the open dressing room, the runners paused on the way to the shower and put them on for what must have been one of the most extraordinary ballets ever performed.

During the Convocation summary, Prof. Edmund S. Morgan was talking about modern examinations in which the student does not have to answer a question but merely chooses one of five provided. The answers are already made up for him, and he gets the idea that thinking consists of choosing one of several given answers, so that he is helpless to create. When you put a piece of paper and a pencil in front of him, about all he can write is his name.

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