Word: burr
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Journalistic courtesy: "There is a High School or Grammar School located at Wayback, Somewhere County, at which is published a paper called, if we mistake not, the Lehigh Chestnut or Burr, or something. We laugh a sad smile when we see these infantic sheets that originate in some back woods town strain themselves in an attempt to write an opinion." - Acta Columbiana...
...Lehigh Burr complains over the "cribbing" which goes on there, and attributes it to the extreme youth of the average student...
...following were officers of the meeting: Referee. W. M. Burr, '84; Judges, C. H. Kip, '83; H. B. Cabot, '83, W. F. Wesselhoeft. '84. Time Keepers, C. A. Church, J. G. Lathrop, W. R. Trask, '85. Starter, Dr. Swain. Measurers, G. S. Mumford, '87, A. C. Denniston, '83. Scorer, F. Remington. Clerk of the Course, C. Amory, '88. Assistant Clerk of the Course, F. G. Balch...
...Lehigh Burr discusses the effect of faculty interference on athletics, remarking that, "Athletics seem to claim more of the time of faculties, at the present day, than more distinctively collegiate topics. The Harvard faculty gleefully writhes in accumulating evidence of the immoral tendencies of foot-ball, and prohibits its cultivation unless the student of delicate physique right gallantly arrayed in bib and tucker, kicks just five pounds avoirdupois, and stands out of sight of the rest of the team...
...surprise of everybody, the hitherto complacent Yale Record makes the humiliating admission that " Already the Argo, the Atheneum, the Advocate, the Lampoon, the Spectator, that precocious youth, the Burr, are at the front in this particular or that...