Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, there are additional appointments on the way up. The position of Allston Burr Senior Tutor is usually awarded to an assistant professor, but instructors have held it. It is normally a five-year post but it can be altered to fit the expiration date of a shorter appointment already held. The Senior Tutor devotes half of his time to teaching and half to House administrative matters. The position of Housemaster, awarded by the President and the Corporation, entails the same duties...
Leonard K. Nash, associate professor of Chemistry, actively disproved the Phlogiston theory in Natural Sciences 4 yesterday morning by an unintentional explosion which slightly injured him, deafened his students, and shattered glass as far as the back row of Burr...
...collection are upwards of 300,000 pages from unprinted diaries and letters of the Adams family, dating from pre-Revolutionary times through World War I. In addition to the published material, microfilms of the entire collection will be available to serious scholars. Walter M. Whitehill, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Lowell House and a prime mover of the project, stated that "the first 88 reels will be distributed next week, with the remainder ready about...
...Williamsburg plan, with every plastic daisy on the village green set in by hand, the sheep marcelled like chorus girls, the cottages authentic from the dew on the thatch to the sweat on the hob, and even the cricket on the hearth selected for what sounds like a Sottish burr...
Barnes said information and application blanks for the scholarships will be with the Fulbright chairman of each graduate school. Undergraduates should apply to Joseph C. Palamountain, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Adams House and assistant professor of Government. The applications must be filled out and returned by October...