Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college began to grow roots, the sorry plight of the commuter gradually became more apparent. While housemembers derived a sense of community and at least an iota of social distinction from belonging to a house, the commuter wandered about aimlessly, and enviously. In 1934, it was hoped that Allston Burr had provided a solution when he donated Dudley for the Commuters...
Cheever, a member of the Faculty since 1947, is Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Winthrop House. Before his appointment as lecturer in 1953, he served as assistant professor and tutor in Government...
...plan, which will go into effect next fall, will provide a midway ground between residence and commuting, Charles P. Whitelock, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Dudley House, said yesterday...
...after a varied career as a lumber salesman, army officer, exporter and timber evaluator for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, an Ivy League degree was assumed to be part of a U.S. diplomat's equipment. In such company Canadian-born Angus Ward, who spoke with a Scottish burr and who had no degree at all, stuck out like a sore thumb...
...pocket. "A man's a man for a' that, for a' that an' a' that . . . The honest man, tho e'er sae puir, is king of men for a' that." Malenkov read in Russian, while an interpreter provided the Scots burr. "A very friendly man," said Lord Citrine later, "with a deep grasp of English cultural life...