<p>Naturally, I love Brown, but I’m getting tired of hearing about Brown’s well-known features (ie open curriculum, laid back student body, etc).</p>
<p>So let’s come up with some random reasons why Brown rocks our socks.</p>
<li>The John Carter Brown library holds seven 15th century letters from Christopher Columbus proclaiming his “discovery” of the New World.</li>
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<li>If you sit against the back of the Carrie Tower, you are hidden by the bushes and the tower from view, but you can see in every direction except behind you. At night, that is. In the daytime, people will probably be able to see you and wonder why you are sitting half under a bush.</li>
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<li>Also, there’s this little restaurant (Louie’s, maybe?) that serves really good omelets. It’s a little greasy, but good and cheap.</li>
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<p>And there is a TeaLuxe and Thayer street is very quirky</p>
<p>my interviewer was a soccer player. maybe thats the reason he kept talking about Thayer st, when he wasnt saying how brown students are diverse and that brown is unlike any other school (both comments were constantly being mumbled), in fact thats all he said, besides him being a brown soccer player…</p>
<p>YES! Louie’s! They indeed have the greasiest, tastiest omelettes on campus and they have the crazy 5:00 AM breakfast for all of us crazy late night Perkinites… If any of you happen to live in Perkins next year, consider yourself lucky! I’ve made my closest friendships here, and even though its further from campus than most dorms, if I could relive my freshman year, I would definitely do it in Perkins. Definitely the tightest dorm on campus.</p>
<p>Oh and a random fact: The John Hay Library has a anatomy textbook that’s wrapped in human flesh.</p>
<p>this is a cool thread and should be revived</p>
<p>The Annmary Brown Library is actually a tomb. The building, which has no windows, resembles a tomb, as indeed it is; both Rush Hawkins and Annmary Brown Hawkins are buried in an enclosure at the east end of the building. The slabs above their graves can be viewed through a grate, and each year on March 9th, the birthday of Annmary Brown, her grave is decorated with flowers.</p>
<p>there’s a seal imprinted in the ground at the top of some stairs on pembroke campus. rumor has it that any woman who steps on it will get pregnant while at brown.</p>
<p>Really? That’s sketchy. That woman better not walk through the gates, or else she’ll be destined to single-mother hood.</p>
<p>Every Friday the 13th is celebrated as Josiah S. Carberry Day</p>
<p>Josiah S(tinkney) Carberry (fl. 1929-?), legendary professor of psychoceramics (the study of cracked pots) since 1929, was born on a bulletin board in University Hall. The first announcement of his existence was a notice which read:</p>
<pre><code>“On Thursday evening at 8:15 in Sayles Hall J. S. Carberry will give a lecture on Archaic Greek Architectural Revetments in Connection with Ionian Philology. For tickets and further information apply to Prof. John Spaeth.”
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<p>On Friday, May 13, 1955, an anonymous gift of $101.01 was received by the University from Professor Carberry to establish the Josiah S. Carberry Fund in memory of his “future late wife.” A condition of the gift was that, henceforth, every Friday the 13th would be designated “Carberry Day,” and on that day friends of the University would deposit their loose change in brown jugs to augment the fund, which is used to purchase “such books as Professor Carberry might or might not approve of.”</p>
<p>does brown value personal character (possibly reflected in recs and essays) more than most colleges do? even tho scores matter a huge deal. Will someone who has a passion for a subject or activity be viewed highly by admissions?</p>
<p><em>the buzzer sounds</em> ‘What’s my Chance’ posts don’t count as random facts about Brown! 
My tour guide said that some building (the name escapes me) houses the history of mathematics and egyptology majors, majors offered only at Brown.</p>
<p>The Rockeffeller Library has Abraham Lincoln’s Death Masks.</p>
<p>A copper water pump with a serpent spout sits outside Hope College–a relic from the early 1800’s.</p>
<p>In the same century, Rhode Island Hall housed Brown’s natural history museum–the museum contained such attractions as bears, camels, one of Queen Victorias ponies (all suitably stuffed), a Venezuelan blow gun with a quiver of poisoned arrows, and an entire case full of execution knives.</p>
<p>Oh god, an anatomy book wrapped in human flesh?!</p>
<p>That makes my stomach turn. I mean, what kind of psycho removes flesh from a human to cover his textbook?</p>
<p>Ugh.</p>
<p>umm… one that has a cadaver and doesnt wanna throw it out…completely… just enjoy</p>
<p>uhhh is it possible to check out the book for an unspecified period of time for unspecified purposes?</p>
<p>Does Brown still have that really cool pipe organ in Sayles?</p>
<p>now that I said Sayles I am questioning my memory of which building the organ was in. But there were cool concerts from time to time…</p>
<p>SBmom, you’re absolutely right with Sayles.</p>