Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island. It is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. One of nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution, it was the first college in the United States to codify in its charter that admission and instruction of students was to be equal regardless of their religious affiliation.
Petitioner Ezra Stiles later became the seventh president of Yale College.
Petitioner William Ellery signed the US Declaration of Independence in 1776.
Brown's first president, minister James Manning
The Ezra Stiles copy of Brown's 1764 charter
The Ivy League is an American collegiate athletic conference of eight private research universities in the Northeastern United States. The term Ivy League is used more broadly to refer to the eight schools that belong to the league, which are globally-renowned as elite colleges associated with academic excellence, highly selective admissions, and social elitism. The term was used as early as 1933, and it became official in 1954 following the formation of the Ivy League athletic conference.
The flags of all eight Ivy League universities fly over Columbia University's Wien Stadium in Manhattan
Soldiers Memorial Gate (1921) at Brown University
Low Memorial Library (1895) at Columbia University
Tjaden Hall (1883) at Cornell University