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Mixed Harvard-Radcliffe sophomore tutorial in the five big fields (English, Government, History, Economics, and Social Relations) will be dropped next year, Dean Kerby-Miller of Radcliffe said yesterday. The move came as a result of the new Allston-Burr tutorial set-up at Harvard which will concentrate tutorial in the Houses...
Yesterday, without thin horns or tape cutting, the powers-that-be opened the doors of Burr Hall to the University. With luck, that act also opened the eyes of the still doubting, hesitate world to the face that beauty and utility can be most happily wedded through modern design...
...Before Burr Hall's designers began, they called in science professors and lecturers, the men who would be teaching in the building, and asked them what they needed. The architects then built their plans around the basic necessities of a science lecture room...
Lamont inserted the wedge, the Graduate Center widened the gap. Now that Burr has crept right in, the University can boast that it still points the way in education by absorption...
...channelled, ordered mind will enter Burr Hall like a virgin stepping out of Tremont street into Scollay Square. Others will look at its exterior like a country boy watching the tattooed man in a carnival. But there are those who will watch it like a mother seeing her youngest take his first steps, in stocking feet...