Today marks the return of a Brown “thing” to the Brown campus. In her article, “Brown University Celebrates the Return of Rush Hawkins’ Sword“, Courtney Coelho writes that the Brown Library will welcome back a Civil War-era silver sword that belonged to Rush Hawkins. The sword was stolen in 1977.
http://blogs.brown.edu/libnews/brown-university-celebrates-the-return-of-rush-hawkins-sword