Word: burriss
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Burriss Young, associate dean of freshmen Alberta Arthurs, dean of freshmen, and Susan W. Lewis, assistant dean of freshmen, said yesterday they agree that each council's effectiveness is determined by the people leading it. Dean Young said the administration does not control the council in any way, but it does require all projects undertaken to self-supporting...
...course not all the dealing goes on in that fashion. But W. C. Burriss Young '55, acting dean of freshmen and leader of the all-night sessions, claims that "there is a lot of competitive horsetrading" when the freshmen advisers play matchmakers with the incoming class...
...course, there are a couple of out-standing proctors who do more than serve beer and play big brother. Over the years, Dean of Freshmen Burriss Young has developed somewhat of a cult around himself and his Mass Hall proctees. He reportedly gets first pick from the freshman roster in choosing the lucky few who will reside in his dorm, and there's lots of self-congratulation in Mass Hall because of this. "Burriss creates a real Old Harvard atmosphere--we were always invited to his room at night for Chinese food and worldly discussions of politics and academia," said...
...Burriss Young, acting dean of freshmen, said yesterday that Holworthy and Grays Halls will probably bear the brunt of the overcrowding, with a couple of other suites in the Yard taking extra people...
Digression: A parallel presents itself. Seven years ago for a period of a month and a half, a certain unknown freshman mounted a certain unknown pinnacle in the Yard each evening at 5:20 p.m. to bellow the finest Tarzan yell this side of the Equator. W.C. Burriss Young '55, then associate dean of freshmen, soon perceived that something had to be done, as each evening multitudes of freshmen abandoned their studies to hark to the mystery wail. Grade-point averages were dipping dangerously. Young pursued the lonely caterwauler with the dogged persistence of an insecure gum-shoe...