Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Traugott Dunker '25, of Davenport, lowa, president of the Student Council, veteran football guard, captain of the track team, and member of Phi Beta Kappa, has been awarded the Francis H. Burr Scholarship, it was announced last night. The scholarship is offered in memory of Francis H. Burr '09, for the senior who combines as nearly as possible Burr's remarkable qualities of character, leadership, scholarship, and athletic ability...
Last year the Burr Scholarship was awarded to Charles Joseph Hubbard Jr. '24 of Milton, football captain, and First Marshal of his class. Two years ago this scholarship went to Joseph Sill Clark Jr. '23, of Chestnut Hill, Pa. Clark played on the baseball team and was a sprinter on the track team...
...remaining ten college comics which will send delegates to Harvard next months are the Black and Blue Jay from Johns Hopkins, the Brown Jug, the Chanticleer from Rutgers, the Columbia Jester, the Lehigh Burr, the Penn Punch Bowl, the Pitt Panther, from the University of Pittsburgh, the Carnegie Tech Puppet, the Royal Gaboon of Carnegie Tech, and the Yale Record...
...Francis Burr, Captain of the 1908 football team, who nominated Haughton to the Athletic Committee as head coach for a term of years. Burr's eager advocacy of the appointment was justified by Haughton's record. Haughton, with time to work in, built up Harvard football. He had unusual material--Mahan, Hardwick, Brickley, Pennock, for example--and the coaching was as remarkable as the material. Haughton had skill, knowledge, magnetism, and, with all his fire, a common sense which kept in his mind the need of sending on the field players with their wits about them, not players deadened...
...People familiar with South Carolina say the State goes stark, staring, raving crazy about every thirty years. In 1801 it voted solidly and persistently for Aaron Burr for president. In 1830 it undertook to nullify the tariff laws of the United States and was called to order sternly by Andrew Jackson. In 1860-61 it first seceded and then fired on Fort Sumpter and forced the rest of us into a hopeless civil war. In 1891 it threw out of the United States Senate Wade Hampton, the greatest soldier it ever has produced, and the man whose magnificent and daring...