Word: burr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group then went into the back of the crowded lecture hall, Burr B. but made no attempt to interrupt Herrnstein's lecture...
According to Gilbert, the committee will work closely with Presidents Bunting and Bok throughout the selection process. Another advisor to the committee will be Francis H. Burr '35, Senior Fellow of Harvard College and Radcliffe Trustee, who played a key role in the selection of President Bok last year...
...month of December with a list of 23 finalists for the job, but even as that list was creeping into national print after the CRIMSON broke it, three of the five Corporation members had already decided on Bok and the other two were just days away from coming around. Burr said later that, by that time, there was nothing new to be said on the subject, and most of his colleagues agreed. The only question by mid-December was timing, and peripherally, how the hell to keep the newspapers from blowing the story before the formalities were concluded...
...full backing of the Governing Boards, and three members of the Corporation-Francis H. Burr '35, the man who headed the search for Pusey's successor, Hugh Calkins '45, and John M. Blum '43-are close friends of his. At this point, the Corporation and Overseers are beaming with pride over their new President; only time will tell how they react to his administrative inclinations...
When Francis Burr came to his house on December 13 and offered him the job, Bok asked for ten days to think it over. Later he reflected, "Being asked to do something for an institution like Harvard exercises a very potent appeal that is hard to gauge until...