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Brown University (U.S.)

Rhode Island

image located by Esteban Rivera, 1 June 2011

Description of the flag
Variant flag
White flag

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Description of the flag

Brown University, located in Providence, Rhode Island, is one of that elite group of American universities and colleges colloquially known as the 'Ivy League'. Most if not all of these institutions were founded during the 17th and 18th Centuries.

Descriptions of two flags of Brown University, taken from an official publication known as the 'Encyclopedia Brunoniana,' a collection of articles referring to the university's history, traditions, and culture at www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=F0140.

"A Flag for the University was designed by Henry L. P. Beckwith '58 and carried for the first time at the inauguration of President Swearer in 1977. The design represents the shield of the coat of arms of the University spread over the whole surface of the white flag, which contains the red cross and four books of the shield, the books bound in red, edged in gilt, and lined to indicate text. The whole flag is gold fringed to match the other flags which are borne in processions. An earlier flag which was designed by Theodore Francis Green 1887 to be carried at the inauguration of President Barbour in 1929 was made of brown silk with a white shield in the center on which a brown bear rampant displays a flashing red tongue. In 1964 a bicentennial flag bearing the bicentennial emblem, which was sewn by Shirley Morrison '64, was flown each day beneath the American flag on the College Green."
Ron Lahav, 25 March 2008

Variant flag

image located by Esteban Rivera, 30 December 2013

In a video by RCN tv news (www.canalrcnmsn.com/noticias/santos_propone_obama_inicio_de_nueva_era_de_relación_entre_eeuu_y_colombia) showing a visit of the current Colombian President to Brown University on April 5, 2011, the flag shows a ribbon below the shield.
Esteban Rivera, 30 December 2013

White flag

image by Joe McMillan, 11 March 2004

Founded in 1764 as the College of Rhode Island and later named after the Brown family of Providence, historically the most eminent commercial and social family in the state and one of the most prominent in the United States. Brown uses a banner of its arms, Argent a cross gules between four open books proper.
Joe McMillan, 11 March 2004