<p>Today Brown students may TAKE exams in the Pyret programming language, but in 1863, pirates were a valid reason to MISS exams at Brown. Article from the Brown Alumni Mag.<br /><a href="https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/2024-03-27/when-the-university-cadets-went-to-war" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">brownalumnimagazine.com/articl</span><span class="invisible">es/2024-03-27/when-the-university-cadets-went-to-war</span></a></p>