Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...committee on arrangements of the Harvard Club of Boston, which is composed of Odin Roberts '86, chairman: W. C. Baylies '84, I. T. Burr, Jr., '06, John W. Cutler '09, G. B. Dawson '83, C. H. Fiske, Jr., '93, W. L. Garrison, Jr., '97, J. W. Hallowell '012, R. Lowell '12,J. D. Phillips '97, Roger Pierce '04, P. W. Thomson '02, A. W. Weld '91, has arranged the following program with a special view of making it enjoyable and profitable to the graduates who live at a distance from Boston...
Immediately upon his death, the care of the college was entrusted to the Reverend Aaron Burr, who took the students from Elizabethtown to Newark. To Burr belongs the honor of organizing the curriculum of the college, its ceremonies and its discipline...
...While Burr was arranging the curriculum, the trustees were arranging for the permanent location of the college. Newark was too near New York to satisfy the trustees residing in Pennsylvania, so they voted in 1750 "that a proposal be made to the towns of New Brunswick and Princeton to try what sum of money they could raise for the building of the college by the next meeting, that the trustees may be better able to judge in which of these places to fix the college." In September, 1752, they voted that the college be fixed in Princeton and ground...
...Aaron Burr, Yale 1735. From 1748 to 1757. Trustee from 1746 to 1748 and real founder of the college...
There are now at the front seven sections, four of which are headed by University graduates. Section Eight is in charge of A. B. Mason '08, Section Nine under Carleton Burr '13, Section Ten under H. M. Luckley '10 and Section Three under Lovering Hill '10. This latter section, according to telegrams received yesterday, has just reached Salonika, where it will operate with the French armies in Greece. This section is larger than the others and is composed of 36 Ford ambulances, two repair cars, a large ambulance (two-ton truck) and 25 volunteers. Hill was in the first section...