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Away from the noise of the House Party weekend, over 300 scientists and humanists gathered in the Faculty Club and Burr Hall to honor P.W. Bridgman '04, Higgins University Emeritus, and Philipp Frank, former lecturer in Physics, both eminent philosophers of science...
...visitors, attending a conference called "Science and the Modern World View--Toward a Common Understanding of the Sciences and the Humanities," left no doubt that they had come to honor Bridgman and Frank when the two men received standing ovations after their speeches in Burr Hall...
...most of the time there was only the quiet give-and-take among scholars. At Burr, the visitors assembled to hear speeches and discuss them...
...college began to grow roots, the sorry plight of the commuter gradually became more apparent. While housemembers derived a sense of community and at least an iota of social distinction from belonging to a house, the commuter wandered about aimlessly, and enviously. In 1934, it was hoped that Allston Burr had provided a solution when he donated Dudley for the Commuters...
Cheever, a member of the Faculty since 1947, is Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Winthrop House. Before his appointment as lecturer in 1953, he served as assistant professor and tutor in Government...