title: Brown University
Isabella Breckinridge House
WBOR
Bowdoin College
Alpheus Spring Packard Sr.
Bowdoin Project
William Smyth (professor)
Jonathan Lubin
Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum
Bowdoin College Men's Rugby
sentences: Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
 Founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.
The Isabella Breckinridge House also known as River House, and formerly the Breckinridge Public Affairs Center of Bowdoin College, is an historic house at 201 US Route 1 in York, Maine, United States.
 The main house, designed by architect Guy Lowell, is a 23-room mansion which was built in 1905 for Mary Goodrich, widow of tire magnate B. F. Goodrich.
 It is located on a 26 acre estate facing the York River.
 The property was given to Bowdoin College by Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson in 1974, and the college operated it as a conference center until it was sold into private hands in 2004.
 The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
 It is one of Maine's most architecturally distinctive and unusual early 20th-century summer estate houses.
WBOR (91.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, United States.
 The station broadcasts from the basement of the Dudley Coe Building on the Bowdoin College campus.
 Programming includes indie rock, classical, electronic music, blues, jazz, metal, talk, news, sports, political, along with a large variety of other shows.
 In the past, WBOR has also published a music, arts, and literature magazine called the "WBOR Zine."
 Although WBOR can not air ads as it is a non-commercial educational license on a designated non-commercial frequency, public service announcements are read every hour.
 Show hosts are predominantly Bowdoin College students, however many Bowdoin faculty members, as well as community members host weekly shows.
 WBOR can be heard throughout the Midcoast area and sometimes as far away as Portland.
Bowdoin College ( ) is a private liberal arts college located in Brunswick, Maine.
 At the time Bowdoin was chartered in 1794, Maine was still a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
 It offers 33 majors and four additional minors, and offers joint engineering programs with Columbia University, Dartmouth College, and Caltech.
Alpheus Spring Packard (December 23, 1798 – July 13, 1884) was an American academic who may have been the longest serving faculty member to any American college through his 65 years at Bowdoin College, "in this particular I acknowledge, without reserve, my allegiance to Brunswick, Maine."
 Trained as a minister, educator, librarian, acting President of Bowdoin College for the year 1883–84 until his death (between the Chamberlain and Hyde administration).
 He was the father of four sons and one daughter by his first wife: Alpheus Spring Packard Jr. (1839–1905), Bowdoin class of 1861, Civil War surgeon, entomologist who corresponded with Darwin, and a Professor at Brown University with 25 publications, William Alfred Packard (1830-1909), Bowdoin class of 1851, Charles A. Packard, Bowdoin class of 1848, George Packard, as well as Frances Appleton.
The Bowdoin Project (officially entitled What does Bowdoin Teach?
 How a Contemporary Liberal Arts College Shapes Students) was an educational publication critiquing the educational practices of Brunswick-based liberal arts college Bowdoin College.
 The publication, rebased in April 2013, garnered widespread media coverage for its critique of the college and more generally the liberal arts curriculum and overall practices.
 The report called for educational reform, and provided critique of Bowdoin's academic, social, and educational practices.
 The report was later dubbed "The Bowdoin Project" due to widespread media coverage, and has produced extended analysis of the school's academic and social program.
William Smyth (1797 – April 3, 1868) was an American academic and writer on mathematics and other subjects.
 He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1822, then studied theology at Phillips Academy Andover.
 In 1825, he became a professor of mathematics at Bowdoin College, and in 1846 became an associate professor of natural philosophy.
 The Bowdoin College Department of Mathematics Smyth Prize is named in his honor.
Jonathan Darby Lubin (born August 10, 1936, in Staten Island, New York) is a professor emeritus of mathematics at Brown University.
 He received an A.B. from Columbia College in 1957 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1963 under the direction of John Tate.
 He taught at Bowdoin College from 1962–1967 and at Brown University from 1967–2000.
The Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum is a museum located in Hubbard Hall at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.
 Named after Arctic explorers and Bowdoin College graduates Robert E. Peary (Class of 1877) and Donald B. MacMillan (Class of 1898), it is one of two museums in the United States dedicated completely to Arctic Studies.
Bowdoin College Men's Rugby is the men's rugby club of Bowdoin College - founded in 1969 with a combination of students from Bowdoin and men from Portland, ME.

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 Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
 Founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. 

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 The Isabella Breckinridge House also known as River House, and formerly the Breckinridge Public Affairs Center of Bowdoin College, is an historic house at 201 US Route 1 in York, Maine, United States.
 The main house, designed by architect Guy Lowell, is a 23-room mansion which was built in 1905 for Mary Goodrich, widow of tire magnate B. F. Goodrich.
 It is located on a 26 acre estate facing the York River.
 The property was given to Bowdoin College by Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson in 1974, and the college operated it as a conference center until it was sold into private hands in 2004.
 The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
 It is one of Maine's most architecturally distinctive and unusual early 20th-century summer estate houses. 

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 WBOR (91.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, United States.
 The station broadcasts from the basement of the Dudley Coe Building on the Bowdoin College campus.
 Programming includes indie rock, classical, electronic music, blues, jazz, metal, talk, news, sports, political, along with a large variety of other shows.
 In the past, WBOR has also published a music, arts, and literature magazine called the "WBOR Zine."
 Although WBOR can not air ads as it is a non-commercial educational license on a designated non-commercial frequency, public service announcements are read every hour.
 Show hosts are predominantly Bowdoin College students, however many Bowdoin faculty members, as well as community members host weekly shows.
 WBOR can be heard throughout the Midcoast area and sometimes as far away as Portland. 

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 Bowdoin College ( ) is a private liberal arts college located in Brunswick, Maine.
 At the time Bowdoin was chartered in 1794, Maine was still a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
 It offers 33 majors and four additional minors, and offers joint engineering programs with Columbia University, Dartmouth College, and Caltech. 

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 Alpheus Spring Packard (December 23, 1798 – July 13, 1884) was an American academic who may have been the longest serving faculty member to any American college through his 65 years at Bowdoin College, "in this particular I acknowledge, without reserve, my allegiance to Brunswick, Maine."
 Trained as a minister, educator, librarian, acting President of Bowdoin College for the year 1883–84 until his death (between the Chamberlain and Hyde administration).
 He was the father of four sons and one daughter by his first wife: Alpheus Spring Packard Jr. (1839–1905), Bowdoin class of 1861, Civil War surgeon, entomologist who corresponded with Darwin, and a Professor at Brown University with 25 publications, William Alfred Packard (1830-1909), Bowdoin class of 1851, Charles A. Packard, Bowdoin class of 1848, George Packard, as well as Frances Appleton. 

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 William Smyth (1797 – April 3, 1868) was an American academic and writer on mathematics and other subjects.
 He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1822, then studied theology at Phillips Academy Andover.
 In 1825, he became a professor of mathematics at Bowdoin College, and in 1846 became an associate professor of natural philosophy.
 The Bowdoin College Department of Mathematics Smyth Prize is named in his honor. 

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 Jonathan Darby Lubin (born August 10, 1936, in Staten Island, New York) is a professor emeritus of mathematics at Brown University.
 He received an A.B. from Columbia College in 1957 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1963 under the direction of John Tate.
 He taught at Bowdoin College from 1962–1967 and at Brown University from 1967–2000. 

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 The Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum is a museum located in Hubbard Hall at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.
 Named after Arctic explorers and Bowdoin College graduates Robert E. Peary (Class of 1877) and Donald B. MacMillan (Class of 1898), it is one of two museums in the United States dedicated completely to Arctic Studies. 

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Answer: Brown University