To the Editor:
I think it great that Brown won four Rhodes Scholarships, and seemingly, the process of applying has been greatly improved.
Still, Linda Dunleavy's several quoted remarks seem silly even, like, winning proves Brown has "arrived." Well, I thought the place arrived around 1775 — and everyone is now embarrassed even on whose back it arrived on — but whatever.
Brown, this year, fell a spot, I think, in the U.S. News and World Report rankings. Does this prove Brown fell in some dark hole and is dead? I think, too, the number of Fulbrights was down this year. Did Brown check into Butler Hospital and get electroconvulsive therapy with bad memory loss? What is true is that schools toot their horns very loudly and often grossly. And generally Brown is not so bad mostly, since it seems more silly.
And, hey, I am thrilled the school arrived. I always was afraid graduating long ago that I hallucinated the place entirely.
Richard Steingesser '72
