Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were burred into the patient's skull, one above each eye and two in the back of the head. On a rolling table, the patient was wheeled back so that his head was under a stereotaxic (space-positioning) instrument. A pin on a micrometer mounting fitted into each burr hole. X rays revealed the main landmarks inside the skull. They could not show the elusive ansa lenticularis but its position was determined from them. Coordinates were carefully noted...
Winthrop House will inaugurate a unique "grassroots" plan with the balance of its Ford Foundation grant which will give students a greater voice in spending the money, Albert A. Mavrinac, Allston Burr Senior Tutor, announced yesterday...
...impressed by his academic ability, and introduced him to his Eliot House luncheon group. Conway also impressed the Eliot staff, and--as Master John H. Finley puts it--"he grew on Eliot House like the ivy on our walls." Finley appointed him as the House's first Allston Burr Senior Tutor in 1952. When he became Master of Leverett House this summer, Conway ended a ten year association with Eliot; Finley called this loss "an unmitigated calamity for the House...
...John Douglas Cockcroft, director of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, England, outlined a program for nuclear power development that will halve the cost of electricity in Britain within the next five years. He delivered the first Morris Loeb Lecture at Burr Hall last night...
...overcrowding in the College dormitories is a deep concern to all of us here on the scene, and to the many alumni and friends of Harvard College who are currently working to build new Houses and dormitories. Charles P. Whitlock Allston Burr Senior Tutor of the Non-Resident Student Center