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...Burr indicated interest in the project, yet a dance at his gifts and services to the University shows that his interest was not restricted to the varsity club. True, he gave money for the present quarters. But he also headed the committee to raise money for Memorial Church and gave substantially to it, served as an Overseer and as President of the Alumni Association. He once told the CRIMSON that he only wanted to serve the University's most pressing needs. A new varsity club does not fall in his category. To spend so sizeable an amount in such...
...building was made possible by the unrestricted gift of the late Allston Burr '89, who also gave the money in 1912 for the present structure...
Construction will begin shortly on a new Varsity Club building, the CRIMSON learned yesterday. The proposed clubhouse, made possible by a gift from the late Allston Burr '82, will be located on the new vacant lot in front of Lowell House between the Phoenix and Fly Clubs...
...Burr died in February, 1949, leaving the University an unrestricted gift of $1,500,000. In 1912 he gave the funds for the present Varsity Club, adjoining the Union, and in later years expressed a desire to see a new clubhouse built nearer to the Houses...
...sculpture, warmth is less easily achieved. The Greeks did it consistently, but few moderns care to try. Among the few is Burr Miller, whose marble Genetrix stood out at the Whitney like a breathing woman in a waxworks. Robert Cronbach's bas-relief Woman Drinking was contrastingly weightless; by hollowing out his fat, unhappy figure he had transformed her into an alcoholic cloud...