Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Daniel S. Cheever '39, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Winthrop House, said that although the Presidency was a "man-killing job," to which the usual standards of an 'active life' could not be applied, he thought that Eisenhower would run again...
...will replace John J. Conway, who has been senior tutor at Eliot since the initiation of the Allston Burr system in the fall of 1952. Conway is leaving for England on a year's sabbatical to work on 19th century British and Commonwealth history. He expects to resume his duties as head tutor when he returns...
...would be a better Professor of Applied Golfing Tactics than Mr. Ben Hogan, recently retired world's champion professional golfer? Mr. Hogan could give his students skull practice in Burr A, set up a driving range in Memorial Hall, a putting green in Houghton's rotunds, and practice chip shots into the balcony from the first floor of the Union. With such a difficult course to learn on and such unexcelled instruction, there's no telling where Mr. Hogan's students would end up. They might even be President...
While past-President Truman was generating heat in California, Presidential Hopeful Harriman was setting forth on a chilly, overcast morning in Mclntosh, Ala. (near the spot where New Yorker Aaron Burr was captured in 1807), for a day of hunting with his host, Democratic Representative Frank Boykin, and Alabama's Governor James Folsom. Before breakfast Harriman had shot a 22-lb. turkey; after a quail breakfast, the huntsmen took off to try their skill against the deer on Boykin's 100,000-acre preserve. Although he tried three different stands, Harriman had no luck. That afternoon Harriman spoke...
Miles combines the duties of Dean of Special Students and Counsellor of Foreign Students. He is also Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Dunster House and a lecturer in Government. His assistant in the Special Student office is Miss Phyllis Henry, who, according to Miles, "knows everything about our problems here." Before 1916, any students who were not working toward degrees were handled by the college, but since then, and especially since World War II, increased enrollment of foreign students has increased the importance of the office...