Word: burrs
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William O. Moseley Jr. Travelling Fellowships--Henry Field Jr. M.D., Boston, S.B. Syracuse University 1916, M.D. Harvard University 1920, Assistant in Medicine, 1923-25; Tracy Burr Mallory M.D., Brookline, M.D. 1921, Instructor in Bacteriology...
...which first appeared in January, 1873. Mr. Merwin has had a long and distinguished career as a lawyer and author. For 21 years he was Legislative Counsel for the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Two of the best known books which he has had published are "The Life of Aaron Burr" and "The Life of Bret Harte". He has also written numerous articles for the Atlantic Monthly, the Century, and other magazines. Mr. Merwin is one of a group of widely known men who were connected with the CRIMSON in its early years. Barrett Wendell '77. William Roscoe Thayer '81, Josiah...
...Mistress Burr. There was only one person Aaron Burr ever cared for. She was his daughter, Theodosia. When she was 9, he had her study Greek and Philosophy; at 14 she entertained, in his absence, 14 gentlemen of renown at a dinner for Thayenlanegeo, Chief of the Six Nations. She curled her lip when, in 1804, the riff-raff of Manhattan sang...
...Burr, Burr, what has thou done? Thou, has shooted dead great Hamilton. You hid behind a bunch of thistle And shot him dead with a great hoss pistol...
...with him through a certain scene in Richmond, later-a great mob of sweating, smoking, spitting men; a jury of eminent Virginians; untidy, courageous John Marshall in the Chair; and Burr, the little Colonel-powdered hair, black coat, pallid visage-on trial for his life. Soon after the trial, she took ship for the North with her trunks, her maid, her little black dog. She was never heard of again, though smugglers still tell a story of how a plundered privateer was found, shivering in the huddle cf the seas, with nothing alive on board except a little black...