Word: burr
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...principal reason for the surprisingly small figure may have been a fear among Freshmen that almost everyone else would apply to Quincy. Paul E. Sigmund, Jr., Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Quincy House, yesterday supported this explanation, labeling previous estimates of Quincy applications as "self-defeating...
Jabez C. Street, Chairman of the Physics Department, claimed the 9 o'clock hour was the only one possible. Demonstrations given in the course require the lecture hall to be free both before and after the time of Physics I, he explained, and Burr B, a hall large enough for the course, has a busy schedule...
Franklin L. Ford, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Lowell House, will take a leave of absence until June 1, Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, announced yesterday. Ford has been appointed chairman of a CEP subcommittee which will review College admissions policy...
...opera stars who come to hear him. The voice can become gutty as a trumpet, musky with melancholy, or high and tremulous as a flute. It may take on the high, clipped inflection of the West Indies, the open-throated drawl of the bayou country, the softly rounded burr of the Scotch borderland...
About 100 spectators had gathered in Burr B by 4:30 p.m. yesterday afternoon when radio operators expected to establish immediate contact with the Cambridge group. By 5 p.m. however, the Harvard technicians were still unable to reach their Cambridge counterparts over the BBC network because of continuous sunspot interference. Ten minutes later all hope of running the debate was abandoned...