Education: Brown Men

At Brown University one evening last week, in oldtime Sayles Memorial Hall where chapel is held, some 1,000 graduates gathered to sit on couches and chairs brought in to make them feel like "just one big family." Master of ceremonies was Everett Colby, '97, Manhattan lawyer. He introduced one of whom all there had heard, his classmate Alumnus John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Alumnus Colby said that Alumnus Rockefeller "runs a gas station somewhere down near New York" and assured the gathered company that "John would be pleased to meet any member of...

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