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...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...
...Burriss Young '55, assistant dean of freshmen, could not find a vacant seat in the Freshman Union at lunchtime one day last week. Not surprisingly, he was not pleased. And his displeasure spurred a previously reluctant Freshman Council to action...
...Burriss W. C. Young, assistant dean of freshmen, yesterday requested Lewis J. Tolleson Jr., manager of the freshman dining hall, to keep a "strict count of upperclassmen" eating in the Union after Young could not find a seat there...
...Burriss W.C. Young '55, associate dean of freshmen, said yesterday he will be in contact with Building and Grounds to speed the repairs. Young said the University will absorb the cost of the repairs since the identity of the vandals remains unknown...