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ALTHOUGH IT MAY NO longer be an important part of undergraduate life, the club has an illustrious past as a vital part of College life. After the first attempt at founding a club failed in the 1890s, head football coach Percy D. Haughton '99 and team captain Francis H. Burr '09 revived the club in the fall...
...attire ranging from blue jeans and a t-shirt to a tuxedo and pink bow tie, about 80 History and Literature concentraters yesterday climbed the steps to Burr Hall to turn in two semesters worth of blood, sweat and tears in the form of their senior theses...
...where Harvard makes itself felt. According to The Globe, 54 of 78 partners at the prestigious Boston law firm of Ropes & Gray come from the Law School. But only 33 of the 81 associates are Law School grads, which Ropes & Gray partner and former Harvard Corporation member Francis H. Burr '35 says is evidence that the strength of the Old Boy network is waning: "I think there was something to it way back then," Burr is quoted as saying, "[but] I don't think people fell there's a [Harvard] group anymore. People are much more open...
...Burr believes strongly in what he calls the perfection imperative, the desire to be better. He stopped smoking a year and a half ago; he trains for the marathon every morning; on his upcoming ski trip to Utah, his first extended vacation in five years, he plans to reflect on "life-style improvement to improve my efficiency...
Other corporations fail to follow Burr's lead, he says, because "they think humankind is lazy and bestial and won't do anything unless you beat them to death. We live with a 'boss' structure. But we've proved that if you give people space, room and freedom, you can get trustworthy behavior...