Word: burr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That's not much time. But Francis Burr, Senior Fellow of the Corporation, denies that any list of potential candidates has yet been arrived...
According to Burr, the Corporation will feel that it has failed in its task if the man they finally select is not supported by a large majority of students and Faculty...
...search for Pusey's successor has already caused the selection committee some problems. In his letter to alumni, Francis Burr, Senior Fellow of the Corporation, referred to the next President as "a man generally acceptable to the Harvard community...
This, and another reference to "a man" caused reaction among Radcliffe women who are concerned about sexism in the selection process. Burr has since stressed that his word choice was inadvertent and that several women are on the list of 600 candidates...
...same announcement, the University named John R. Marquand, tutor in History, as the new Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Dudley House...