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Excerpt from Brown Alumni Monthly, Vol. 71: April, 1971 People who work in university admis sions offices tend to get nervous when they hear words like quota, percentage goal, or time-table. They maintain that there are too many variables that affect who gets into what college to talk in such rigid, nu merical terms. 50 in December, 1968, when Brown made a commitment to recruit and admit more black students, it was expressed in terms of sincerity of effort, rather than numbers. According to a survey by the Office for Civil Rights published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, that effort has resulted in a statistically significant improvement. In the fall of 1968, black students ac counted for percent of the enrollment at Brown. In the fall of 1970, that per centage had increased to (299 out of the highest in the Ivy League. James H. Rogers, director of admission at Brown, credits the increase to the recruiting efforts of black admission officers and to the co operation and interest of the afro-ameri can Society. 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.