Faunce Out
Next June, with slow and stately steps, two men, clad in academic robes slashed with purple, scarlet, white, will lead a colorful procession down Providence's College Street.
In the Old Baptist Meeting House, midway down the Hill, they will doff mortar boards and one of the men will relinquish the truncheon of his authority. The other will catch it up. And so will pass a famed figure in U. S. educational circles — Doctor William Herbert Perry Faunce, president of Brown University.
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