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During President John Witherspoon's administration alone (1768-1794), Princeton produced a president (Madison), a vice-president (Aaron Burr, Jr. 1772), nine cabinet officers, twenty-one U. S. Senators, 39 Representatives, three Supreme Court Justices, 12 governors, and 39 judges. The ones who didn't make the grade wound up as lawyers. This record caused Woodrow Wilson to later call the Princeton of that period "a seminary of statesmen...
...Club's first golden age came soon after it was founded in 1908 at the urging of football coach Percy D. Haughton '99. The building was erected with funds provided by Allston Burr '89 in memory of his nephew Francis H. Burr '09, the Club's first president. From its founding until the time the House plan was put into operation in 1931 the Club served as an effective meeting place for the College's athletes. Upperclassmen lived in the Yard or along Mount Auburn Street, and the Club was comparatively nearby...
...except for the brief renaissance just after the war, the Club was on the way down. A solution to its declining fortunes appeared after the death of Allston Burr when in the spring of 1950 the University announced that it would build a new club near Lowell House. Funds would come from a bequest by Burr which were not specifically earmarked for a new Club, but which the University thought placed a moral obligation on it to build the new meeting place...
...using the term "burrocracy," in TIME'S Oct. 8 article on Bill Boyle, I wonder if you noticed also the fitness of "burr-ocracy...
...Dartmouth's oldest, best loved professors died yesterday morning after a short illness. He was 73-year-old Leon Burr Richardson, who had taught at the college for 46 years...