Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington (D.C.) Star, Chairman Samuel Burr Jr. of American University's department of education had a few sharp words to say on the subject of competition in the modern public school. After all, said he, "only the best football players are members of the varsity squad . . . There is competition for the cast of the annual play ... It seems that quite a different view of the natural desire to excel applies in the English, algebra, history and chemistry classes . . . We have exalted the average man. We have made it appear that the middle of the scale is the appropriate place...
...Million Pocketed. The oldest bank in the U.S. operating under its original charter, the Bank of the Manhattan Co. was the offshoot of a firm chartered, with the aid of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, to build Manhattan's first waterworks, use any excess capital in "moneyed transactions." To break the Federalist Party's monopoly on New York banking, the water merchants bought (for $30,000) a house at 40 Wall Street (still the bank's address), opened for business...
...steps toward appointment of the first Burr Senior Tutor of permanent rank have now been taken, it was learned last night. Before the appointment, to fill the vacancy in Adams House, is final however, the recommendation still must receive the approval of four high University offices...
...appointment to succeed Joseph C. Palamountain, Jr., assistant professor of Government ad retiring Burr Tutor in Adams, hinges upon the Corporation's and Overseer's approval of his promotion to associate professor. Neither group has yet considered his name...
...Stewart receives the promotion, he will become the first Senior Tutor to fulfill the qualification originally intended for all Burr Tutors. The Bender Report, when it decentralised the Dean's Office in 1951, recommended that all Burr Tutors hold permanent positions on the faculty. No Senior Tutor has yet held permanent rank in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...