Word: burriss
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Strike focused on political questions. Students succeeded in forcing ROTC's removal from campus, and in getting an Afro-American Studies Department established. But much of the Strike's drive came from more ill-defined urges to topple figures of authority. W.C. Burriss Young '55, associate dean of freshmen, and another long-time Yard resident, remembers being thrown out of University Hall by two students--one of whom he knew very well. Young asked, "Why are you doing this?" The student was crying as he seized Young, and said simply, "I've got to, I've got to." The movement...
...Burriss Young, associate dean of freshmen, said yesterday people from Matthews North have come to him for the past three years complaining about the high percentage of students in that entry not receiving one of their top choices...
...Burriss Young '55, associate dean of freshmen, knew there was something wrong...
...Burriss Young '55, associate dean of freshmen and Atkinson's proctor, said he told the student to transport the chemicals to the Science Center at least a week before Friday's evacuation...
...tunnels provided a handy escape hatch to George C. Wallace when he spoke in Sanders Theater in 1968. As W.C. Burriss Young '55, associate dean of freshmen, remembers it, an angry crowd outside the auditorium had the Harvard police worried. Several armed bodyguards accompanied Wallace, and then-University Police Chief Robert Tonis feared violence might erupt if the Wallace entourage attempted to walk through the crowd. So Tonis had the police escort Wallace through the tunnels to an awaiting car. (When Sectretary of Defense Robert McNamara was whisked away from demonstrators, however, the food tunnels linking five River Houses...