Excerpt from Report of the Committee Appointed to Consider Possible Changes in the Charter of Brown University: Presented to the Corporation at Its Annual Meeting, June 17, 1909 I. Not because the university is now sectarian in administration or atmosphere. 0n the contrary, Brown University is as free to-day from sectarianism as any college in America. No trace of sectarian in uence is ever seen in the assembly of the trustees and fellows, in the meetings of the faculty, or in the instruction of the class room. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."