Word: burr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...April 1970, as a result of discussions with committees of the Faculty of Arts and Selences and after consultation with President Bunting, President Pusey appointed a committee consisting of two Fellows of Harvard College, Francis H. Burr and Hugh Calkins, two Radcliffe Trustees, Mrs. Carl J. Gilbert and Mrs. James Donovan, and President Bunting and himself, ex officio, to advise with respect to the relationship between Harvard and Radcliffe...
...President of Harvard include the Dean as a member of the Council of Deans. He or she would be expected to take a special interest in initiating and extending educational opportunities for women under that Faculty. Women should be represented in appropriate numbers among the House Masters, College Deans, Burr Tutors, and in the various faculties. It would be a responsibility of the Dean of Radcliffe to work with the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to achieve this goal...
...Overseers delegated the responsibility for reviewing potential candidates to their executive committee last spring, and approval for the Corporation choice is considered a formality. Still it will take time, Burr said, to give the chosen one a chance to decide if he wants the job and to convene the two Overseers groups, composed almost exclusively of businessmen and public officials...
...stage of formal consultation with student and faculty committees has ended, Burr added. There will be no more meetings with the Faculty Council, Committee on Governance, or other administrative groups, but individual faculty members will still be asked for comments "right up to the final minute," Burr said...
...Burr noted the meteoric rise of some of the people on the list of 23 finalists in the last few weeks. "We're putting some people into college presidencies just by listing them on our list of candidates," he said wryly. "I think we can now add them to our alumni contributions list...