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Among the purchases were: from the Francis H. Burr Memorial Fund a Gandharan relief of the Birth of Budda; from the Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund a sixth-century Coptic frieze; a Persian fresco from the Prichard Fund. From the Excavation Fund there was acquired twelve casts of Seythian and other objects in Budapest, and sixteen Roman and Egypto-Roman terra cotta figurines and fragments of Persian pottery were acquired from a temporary fund...
Through the generosity of Allston Burr '39, chairman of the graduate committee, an electric clock has been installed in the lounge of the Commuters' Center in Dudley Hall...
...velvet and gold lace, galloped over the island and mainland on horseback or pointed her myopic husband's gun for him on hunting expeditions. And then one day in 1805 Mr. Blennerhassett met a man as eccentric and mercurial as himself, retiring U. S. Vice President Aaron Burr...
...brilliant bundle of contradictions, Aaron Burr had not been able to get along with General Washington at his New York headquarters. Yet as commander of the Revolutionary forces in Orange County he had distinguished himself for soldierly competence. After the Revolution he had practiced law in New York, become embroiled in a dubious land deal, survived it to go to the U. S. Senate and receive as many votes as Thomas Jefferson for President, only to be kicked downstairs into the Vice-Presidency by vote of the House of Representatives. Cast out by both parties for killing Alexander Hamilton...
Beloved Hooks Burr, then captain of the eleven, was the prime factor in bringing about Haughton's appointment. The present Varsity Club was built in memory of Burr by his family and friends...