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...four-man undergraduate investigating committee will submit a divided report tonight on the Corporation's decision to build a new Varsity Club with part of the bequest of Allston Burr...
...University announced its decision to build the new Varsity Club in front of Lowell House May 4. The funds are to come from the donation of the late Allston Burr '89, who also financed construction of the present Varsity Club. Burr's gift was unrestricted, though he had expressed a desire to see the new Club built...
During a debate at the Student Council Tuesday, Herbert P. Gleason '50 suggested that there was reason to believe that members of the Varsity Club Executive Committee had exerted considerable pressure on Burr to specify that his money should go to a new varsity club...
During a debate which preceded the council resolution, Herbert P. Gleason '50 said that Allston Burr '89--who made the $1,500,000 grant of which one sixth is earmarked toward a varsity club--had made no stipulations in his will about where his money should...
...private conversation, Gleason asserted, Burr had told him that he was not wholly familiar with the needs of the University and was prepared to let the administration make the decisions...