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...with the Houses, around which college life in the future must be centered. This motion was proposed by James F. Hornig '50 and Herbert P. Gleason '50. Gleason is not a Council member but served on the Council's committee to investigate the background of the bequest of Allston Burr '39, from which the $250,000 needed to build the Varsity Club will be drawn. Four Council members supported this plan in the final vote...
...grounds that the Corporation is under a "definite moral obligation" toward Burr to build a new club and that a new varsity club would give a boost to the "now poor morale" of athletic teams, Henry M. Silveira '51 and John T. Coan '50 recommended that the Council approve the College's present plans. Five members backed this proposal...
Richard T. Button '50 had suggested that the Burr funds be directed toward some other athletic need since the Varsity Club did not seem to pressing...
...problem really turns out to be does the College need a new Varsity Club! It does not. When Mr. Burr gave the money for the present Varsity Club in 1912 students were mostly sprinkled through a heterogeneous collection of dormitories and rented rooms running from the river to the Yard. There had to be some meeting place to bring together students cut off in the isolation of rooming houses; Mr. Burr's club started that job. Twenty years later the House plan took over, not just for a few athletic teams, but for the whole undergraduate body...
...University has a long list of projects which so far lack funds to complete them. They include more scholarships, expanded General Education, and a hockey rink. All of these needs are more pressing than a varsity club--a new freshman scholarship is more valuable than a snack bar. Allots Burr was interested in Varsity Athletics, but he was interested in the College as an educational institution, as well. Faced with the College's present financial troubles in improving that education, he probably would have felt that the need for a Varsity Club was a small one after...