Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group didn't ask Mulvihill to resign, but forced the union's board of directors to call an election for the presidency. Instead of running for the job themselves, they put up Burr Hall janitor Elwyn Wyman for the top position and Mrs. Helen Maynard, a maid in Eliot House, for the vice-presidency. Mulvihill suddenly withdrew from the race, and Wyman was elected. But the pace proved too tough, and Wyman resigned after only a month in office. No one knew exactly...
Asociate Professor I. Bernard Cohen is not a stranger to the public spotlight. In fact, in his first Natural Sciences 3 lecture last year, he switched out all the lights in Burr B and introduced the course while an assistant focused a spotlight on him. Although he does not always employ such theatrical effects in his History of Science and Learning course, this great self-confidence shines through wherever he lectures...
...freshman last year learned that Cohen will go to any lengths to make a point. This seemingly bored student was lounging over a couple of seats, absorbed in Cambridge's only Breakfast Table Daily when Cohen spied him. Bounding up the endless stairs to the top row of Burr B, he snatched the paper out of the bewildered scholar's hands and shouted, "The Crimson is a fine paper--outside of class...
...Writer Mort Lewis decided that Lee's generalship would have ended the Civil War two years sooner, thus leading to an earlier assassination of Lincoln and Lee's election as President. Other Stroke of Fate teasers: Suppose Montcalm had defeated Wolfe at Quebec, Hamilton had killed Burr in their duel, Hitler had been killed in the Munich beer-hall Putsch? The program's solid grounding in historical fact (Nevins and Historian Stefan Lorant are regular advisers) and able dramatizations give it plausibility and high marks for entertainment...
...NINA BURR...