Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clause pointed out by Mr. Van Ness is in these terms: 'I could detail to you a still more despicable opinion which General Hamilton has expressed of Mr. Burr.' To endeavor to discover the meaning of this declaration, I was obliged to seek in the antecedent part of the letter for the opinion to which it referred ... I found it in these words: 'General Hamilton and Judge Kent have declared in substance that they looked upon Mr. Burr to be a dangerous man, and one who ought not to be trusted with the reins of Government...
...before a bronze bust of Alexander Hamilton was unveiled atop the Palisades on the rock upon which he rested his head after being fatally wounded by Aaron Burr, a Manhattan autograph dealer announced he had acquired from the descendants of Burr's second, William P. Van Ness, the correspondence which led up to the duel. Included was Burr's opening letter wherein he told Hamilton: "I send for your perusal a letter signed Ch. D. Cooper. . . . Mr. Van Ness . . . will point out to you that clause of the letter to which I particularly request your attention." Hamilton...
OCTOBER 10 --Chester K. Litman '35, wins the Francis H. Burr Scholarship...
...choice of the Dudley Hall first floor for the center of commuter college life, was made this winter after Phillips Brooks House had refused to undertake the task for another year. The general administration of the center is under the charge of a committee of graduates consisting of Allston Burr '89 chairman, Joseph Hamlen '04, R. Amml Cutter '22, and Walter A. Smith...
Chairman of the so-called Committee on the Harvard College Non-resident Student Center is Allston Burr '89, of Boston. The other members are Joseph R. Hamlen '04, president of the Alumni Bulletin, R. Ammi Cutter '22, and Walter A. Smith, the representative of the University's architects...